Arnold Isselhorst

Arnold Isselhorst (born July 20, 1615 in Vlotho ; † February 6, 1695 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Arnold Isselhorst was the son of Pastor Matthias Isselhorst . From 1637 he studied law at the University of Rostock and is recorded there as a respondent in 1638 . After completing his studies, he entered the service of the Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck Leonhard von der Borgh in 1640 and, after his death in 1641, in the service of the Lübeck mayor Christoph Gerdes , who came from Güstrow . In 1644 he became secretary of the Hanseatic Office in Bergen (Norway) on Bryggen . In 1648 Johann Melchior Rötlin , who was born in Güstrow, became vice secretary of the office under him and his later successor as secretary. After six years in office in the service of the mountain drivers there, he became registrar and council secretary in Lübeck in 1650. In 1676 he was promoted to protonotary of the Lübeck council. On his death, the rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck Enoch Svantenius (the younger) wrote the funeral oration.

He was the father of the mayor of Lübeck Gotthard Arnold Isselhorst . His grandson Johann Arnold Isselhorst also became mayor of Lübeck.

literature

• Enoch Svantenius (the younger) : Memoriam ... domini Arnoldi Isselhorsten, reip. Lubecensis Protonotarii, ... lecturis sdp Enochus Svantenius. Lubecae 1695
• Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 . In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology , Volume 29 (1938), p. 152.
• Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 48 ( digitized version )
• Friedrich Bruns: The Secretaries of the German Office in Bergen , in: Det Hanseatiske Museums Skriften , Volume 13, Bergen 1939, pp. 70 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal