Anton Winckler

Epitaph for Anton Winckler

Anton Winckler also Anton Winkler (born November 27, 1637 in Lübeck ; † February 15, 1707 there ) was a lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Anton Winckler was born as the son of the Lübeck syndic Benedikt Winkler . He attended the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg from 1655–59 and made his grand tour to France and Italy. After working in Vienna and at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer , he received his doctorate in law from the University of Kiel in 1669 . In 1670 he was a companion of Cay Rantzau on a trip to France. Winckler was elected councilor in Lübeck in 1670. In 1677 he traveled as the city's envoy to the court of the Holy Roman Empire in order to obtain a letter of protection from the emperor because the Danes had arrested Lübeck ships. In 1680 he was the city's representative at the Imperial Court of Justice in the dispute over the pledge to the city of Mölln , which he had to return three years later to Duke Julius Franz von Sachsen-Lauenburg, together with Mayor Hieronymus von Dorne . In 1694 he was elected mayor of the council.

He lived in the house at Königstrasse 81 .

On February 7, 1705 he married Elisabeth, b. Frese, the daughter of the chamberlain and councilor in Lübeck Bernhard Frese and widow of the Schleswig superintendent Sebastian Niemann . Dietrich Buxtehude created the wedding cantata O happy hours, o wonderful day ( BuxWV 120) for this occasion .

epitaph

In 1705, at the time of the renovation of the organ prospectus of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, originally created by the carver Benedikt Dreyer , by the church painter Anton Wortmann and the sculptor Hans Freese, he was their church director. In the north ambulatory of St. Mary there is also his epitaph with a marble bust from the workshop of the Flemish sculptor Thomas Quellinus from 1707.

literature

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 802
• Schaumann, Gustav ; Bruns, Friedrich (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck , ed. from the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 377 ff. (Epitaph)

Web links

Commons : Anton Winckler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Winckler or Wincler, (Anton). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 57, Leipzig 1748, column 491 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of building and architecture, urban development in Lübeck, AK 11 Königstraße 60 to 81 , p. 15 (pdf accessed on October 8, 2013; 157 kB)
2. ↑ Latin inscription text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 32 ff. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6