Anton Woltreich

Anton Woltreich (born December 12, 1593 in Meldorf , † December 25, 1645 in Rostock ) was a German lawyer and syndic of the Hanseatic cities of Wismar and Rostock.

Life

Born in Meldorf as the son of the businessman Carsten Woltreich, Woltreich received his education in Hamburg and Hanover and then studied law . In 1618 he held a disputation to obtain a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg . However, teaching at the university was interrupted in the same year due to the Thirty Years' War and Woltreich was initially denied his doctorate. On June 12, 1623 he finally obtained this at the University of Rostock .

After receiving his doctorate, Woltreich served as a councilor for the city of Rostock. After the Thirty Years' War had reached Mecklenburg in 1627, Woltreich left Rostock and was appointed Syndicus of the Hanseatic city of Wismar in 1628. As such, he took on 19 January 1630 the Hereditary Homage of the Duke of Mecklenburg -appointed Wallenstein in Güstrow part. When the "Swedish Era" began in Rostock at the end of 1631, Woltreich returned, was appointed Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Rostock in 1632 and as such took part in the Landtag in Sternberg in 1634 and in the Landtag in Rostock in 1639.

Woltreich died of consumption in 1645 . His marriage to Justina Merula, daughter of the Dutch lawyer Paul Merula , on August 17, 1619 , had remained childless.

Works

Disputatio Inauguralis Juridica . Heidelberg 1618.
Disputatio Juridica De Intercessionibus Mulierum . Mauriti Saxonis, Rostock 1622 ( digitized on the pages of the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen ).

literature

Johannes Mautner : Antonius Woltreich, Juris Doctor . In: Curia Rostochiensis Anagrammatica . Nicol. Kilius, Rostock 1636 ( digitized on the website of the University of Rostock).
Johann Moller : Cimbria Literata. Tomus Primus. Scriptores universos Indigenas, hisque immistos complures, quorum Patria explorari necdum potuit, comprehendens . In: Cimbria literata, sive scriptorum ducatus utriusque Slesvicensis et Holsatici, quibus et alii vicini quidam accensentur, historia literaria tripartita . Orphanotrophium Regium, Copenhagen 1744, p. 743 ( digitized from Google Books).
Wolterich, (Anton). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 58, Leipzig 1748, column 1481.
Johann Moller: Wolterich (ant.) . In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Hrsg.): “Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world up to the present time, and made themselves known to the learned world after their birth , Life, remarkable stories, dying and writings are described from the most credible scribes in alphabetical order ” . Fourth part, S-Z. Johann Friedrich Gleditschen's bookstore, Leipzig 1751, Sp. 2065 ( digitized from Google Books).

Web links

Publications by and about Anton Woltreich in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

↑ Johann Moller wrongly calls him Wolterich in his Cimbria Literata . Zedler and Jöcher refer to Moller in their lexica and have therefore adopted this incorrect spelling (see literature).
↑ Entry in the dean's book on the Rostock matriculation portal .
↑ Dieterich Schröder : "Of those Syndicis of this city" . In: "Kurtze description of the city and rule Wismar, what concerns the worldly history of the same" . Andreas Sebastian Winckler, Wismar 1743, p. 32 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ).
↑ David Franck : Wallenstein inherited Mecklenburg . In: “The old and new Mecklenburgs Dreyzehendes book. Of Mecklenburg's devastation by enemies and friends, including: how the princes of their countries were appalled, Albrecht von Wallenstein received them, but lost them again, the King of Sweden Gustav Adolph joined them, and both the imperial and Swedes devastated the country; until the Peace of Westphalia takes place ” . Joh. Gotth. Fritze, Güstrow / Leipzig 1756, p. 78-87 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).
↑ David Franck: "Land Tag zu Sternberg" . In: “The old and new Mecklenburgs Dreyzehendes book. Of Mecklenburg's devastation by enemies and friends, including: how the princes of their countries were appalled, Albrecht von Wallenstein received them, but lost them again, the King of Sweden Gustav Adolph joined them, and both the imperial and Swedes devastated the country; until the Peace of Westphalia takes place ” . Joh. Gotth. Fritze, Güstrow / Leipzig 1756, p. 147–169 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).
↑ David Franck: "Land Tag zu Rostock" . In: “The old and new Mecklenburgs Dreyzehendes book. Of Mecklenburg's devastation by enemies and friends, including: how the princes of their countries were appalled, Albrecht von Wallenstein received them, but lost them again, the King of Sweden Gustav Adolph joined them, and both the imperial and Swedes devastated the country; until the Peace of Westphalia takes place ” . Joh. Gotth. Fritze, Güstrow / Leipzig 1756, p. 211–222 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).

personal data
SURNAME	Woltreich, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Woltreich, Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and syndic of the Hanseatic cities of Wismar and Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1593
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meldorf
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 1645
Place of death	Rostock

[1] Johann Moller wrongly calls him Wolterich in his Cimbria Literata . Zedler and Jöcher refer to Moller in their lexica and have therefore adopted this incorrect spelling (see literature).

[2] Entry in the dean's book on the Rostock matriculation portal .

[3] Dieterich Schröder : "Of those Syndicis of this city" . In: "Kurtze description of the city and rule Wismar, what concerns the worldly history of the same" . Andreas Sebastian Winckler, Wismar 1743, p. 32 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ).

[4] David Franck : Wallenstein inherited Mecklenburg . In: “The old and new Mecklenburgs Dreyzehendes book. Of Mecklenburg's devastation by enemies and friends, including: how the princes of their countries were appalled, Albrecht von Wallenstein received them, but lost them again, the King of Sweden Gustav Adolph joined them, and both the imperial and Swedes devastated the country; until the Peace of Westphalia takes place ” . Joh. Gotth. Fritze, Güstrow / Leipzig 1756, p. 78-87 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).

[5] David Franck: "Land Tag zu Sternberg" . In: “The old and new Mecklenburgs Dreyzehendes book. Of Mecklenburg's devastation by enemies and friends, including: how the princes of their countries were appalled, Albrecht von Wallenstein received them, but lost them again, the King of Sweden Gustav Adolph joined them, and both the imperial and Swedes devastated the country; until the Peace of Westphalia takes place ” . Joh. Gotth. Fritze, Güstrow / Leipzig 1756, p. 147–169 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).

[6] David Franck: "Land Tag zu Rostock" . In: “The old and new Mecklenburgs Dreyzehendes book. Of Mecklenburg's devastation by enemies and friends, including: how the princes of their countries were appalled, Albrecht von Wallenstein received them, but lost them again, the King of Sweden Gustav Adolph joined them, and both the imperial and Swedes devastated the country; until the Peace of Westphalia takes place ” . Joh. Gotth. Fritze, Güstrow / Leipzig 1756, p. 211–222 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).