Arnold Gisbert Pagenstecher

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Arnold Gisbert Pagenstecher (born August 1, 1615 in Bentheim , † June 28, 1688 in Duisburg ) was a privy councilor and court judge of the Count of Bentheim .

Life

Arnold Gisbert Pagenstecher was a son of the lawyer Johann Pagenstecher (1575–1650) and Anna Lölevinck (1582–1655). He had already completed his legal studies in Steinfurt , Leiden , Franeker , Gröningen and Utrecht at the age of 18 . He then went on trips and stayed for some time in Paris , where he served as gentilhomme domestique at the Dutch embassy from 1638 . Here he obtained his legal doctorate and on his return he entered the service of Count von Bentheim as councilor and court judge . After the death of his father in 1651 he was appointed as his successor as Chancellor and Privy Councilor, but resigned this position in 1668 when his master, Count Ernst Wilhelm von Bentheim , converted from the Reformed to the Roman Catholic Church . He then took the position of an electoral Brandenburg councilor and resident at the Palatinate-Neuburg court in Düsseldorf , where he was also curator of the University of Duisburg .

Pagenstecher died on June 28, 1688 at the age of 72 in Duisburg. He had first married on April 28, 1646 Anna Elisabeth von Volckershausen and Dunum (around 1620–1655), who gave birth to his son Ernst Philipp (1652–1690), among others . His second marriage was on September 14, 1656 in Wesel am Rhein with Barbara von Rodenberg (1639–1687), with whom he also had several children, including Alexander Arnold (1659–1716) and Werner Justin Pagenstecher (1671–1742 ).

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personal data
SURNAME Pagenstecher, Arnold Gisbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Privy councilor and court judge of the Count von Bentheim
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Bentheim
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1688
Place of death Duisburg