Anton von Lüneburg

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Anton Lüneburg (saved portrait from his epitaph, which was destroyed in 1942)

Anton von Lüneburg (born November 23, 1673 in Lübeck ; † May 10, 1744 there ) was a lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Anton von Lüneburg came from an old, noble Lübeck patrician family . He was the son of Lübeck councilor Alexander von Lüneburg . Anton von Lüneburg studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1691 to 1694 . His then usual Grand Tour then took him together with his Lübeck fellow student Adolf Lefèvre via Vienna and Venice to Rome. From Rome he traveled back to Lübeck via Paris, London and Oxford as well as the Netherlands. Here he became a member of the influential circle society in 1705 . In 1717 he became a councilor in Lübeck and in 1732 one of the city's four mayors . During his term of office the self-completion of the Lübeck Council, forced by the citizens, fell in 1739 . He was the heir to the Lübschen estates Mori and Eckhorst.

Anton von Lüneburg was initially married to a daughter of the Lübeck canon Friedrich Heinrich von Hatten from 1708. In 1738 he married a daughter of Colonel Siegfried von Plessen , who was in Danish service. Both marriages remained childless, with him the von Lüneburg family died out in the male line. His widow married the Danish chamberlain from Albedyll . The Mori and Eckhorst estates were inherited from him to his sons.

Anton von Lüneburg was buried in Lübeck Cathedral . Its baroque epitaph at the western end of the south wall was destroyed except for the portrait in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942. It contained the Latin inscription:

"IV et quod excurrit secula Lubecae floruit et quinque consules, to quinque vero senatores numeravit."

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeckische families from older times , Lübeck 1859, p. 56ff. (Digitized version)
  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 229 Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 848

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration on bildindex.de
personal data
SURNAME Lüneburg, Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1744
Place of death Lübeck