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Augustin Shrub

Augustin Strauch (born October 25, 1612 in Delitzsch , † May 18, 1674 in Regensburg ) was a German legal scholar and after 1653 a diplomat in the service of the Electorate of Saxony .

Life

Strauch was born as the son of the later superintendent of Dresden Aegidius Strauch I and his wife Euphrosina, the daughter of Augustin Cranach . On June 26, 1628 matriculated he at the University of Wittenberg . After his studies he went on an educational trip that took him to Leiden , London and Paris . On the way back he came across the Alsace in Switzerland and had a longer stay in Strasbourg .

Since he had received a legal scholarship from his then sovereign Johann Georg I , he was called back to his Saxon homeland at the beginning of 1639 and took his legal degree in Wittenberg on April 5, 1639 . The next year he was appointed lowest professor in the law school. After he had obtained his doctorate in law in the summer semester of 1641 , he was promoted to the professorship of the Codex. After the death of Jeremias Reusner in 1652, Strauch moved up to the full professorship of the law faculty.

Epitaph Augustin Strauch at the ambassadors cemetery in Regensburg

In connection with his professorships, Strauch had become a judge of appeal in Dresden, assessor at the Wittenberg court and clerical consistory and the Lower Lusatian regional court in Lübben . After he had administered the rectorate of the Wittenberg University in the summer semester of 1643 and 1649 , he was drawn to the Saxon government in Dresden by Elector Johann Georg I in 1652 and had to give up his academic teaching post . As electoral privy councilor, he was appointed - from 1656 for the new elector Johann Georg II - until 1662 for changing embassies outside of Saxony. In 1658, for example, he was present in Frankfurt am Main on the election day of Emperor Leopold I and was appointed envoy to the Reichstag . From 1662 Strauch worked as an imperial councilor and electoral chancellor permanently as an envoy to the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg . There he died in 1674 and was buried in the churchyard immediately south of the Dreieinigkeitskirche (Regensburg) , which is now known as the ambassadorial cemetery .

A very prominent location directly opposite the south portal of the church was chosen for the impressive shrub epitaph in the churchyard, where at that time a single small epitaph stood far to the east alongside many old grave slabs. The location was chosen even though the old grave of General Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch , who was executed in Regensburg in 1635 and was very revered by the citizens of Regensburg, was lost during the construction of the epitaph , which caused a sensation. Today the shrub epitaph is one of the four oldest of 20 epitaphs in the ambassador's cemetery and, with its still legible inscription, is a focal point and an attraction together with the also preserved and inscribed grave slab. The epitaph inscription ends with the words:

"He was snatched from the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire
so that he could surrender his role in the European theater,
he whose whole life had been a public display of virtues,
except that with him everything was real and nothing was played."

genealogy

Strauch was married twice. First he married on September 21, 1643 Dorothea Sophia Lentz (* May 14, 1621 in Quedlinburg; † May 8, 1655 in Wittenberg), the daughter of the Quedlinburg Stiftsrat, sp. Chancellor Rudolstadt Dr. jur. Friedrich Lentz (born September 11, 1591 in Wittenberg; † January 9, 1659 in Rudolstadt) and his wife Maria (∞ May 2, 1620; * July 18, 1598 in Wittenberg; † 05.1640 in Quedlinburg), the daughter of Benedikt Carpzov Older . From this marriage are known:

  • Agidius Strauch (born July 31, 1646 in Wittenberg; born August 7, 1646 in Wittenberg)
  • Egidius Friedrich Strauch (* September 1650 in Wittenberg, † September 22, 1650 in Wittenberg)
  • Augustin Strauch (born May 2, 1655 in Wittenberg), military, in 1684 he was a lieutenant in the Colonel Kupffer Regiment and mentioned as a godfather in the Wittenberg church registers
  • Euphrosina Maria Strauch (born September 27, 1644 in Wittenberg)
  • Dorothea Sophia Strauch (born November 11, 1647 in Wittenberg, † January 27, 1710 in Halle (Saale)) married. on July 11, 1681 in Wittenberg with Friedrich Hohndorf (* August 25, 1628; † April 30, 1694 in Halle (Saale)) Dr. der Rechts, Brandenburg court and judicial councilor as well as Salzgraf in Halle
  • Christina Strauch (born April 6, 1652; † October 18, 1711 in Wittenberg) first marriage to Wilhelm Leyser II , second marriage on April 13, 1691 to Michael Walther the Younger Dr. and professor of theology in Wittenberg.

In his second marriage, Strauch was from August 24, 1658 with Anna Alberti (born April 26, 1640 in Gera, † January 14, 1697 in Zerbst), the daughter of the Count of Russian councilor a. Chancellor (Konsistorialdirektor) Johann Alberti (born May 20, 1600 in Lobenstein / Vogtland; † July 13, 1680 in Gera) ud Anna Thomas (born August 31, 1620 in Leipzig; † July 30, 1669 in Gera), married. A niece of Jakob Thomasius and Johann Thomasius . A daughter is known from this marriage.

  • Anna Augusta Strauch (born June 5, 1659 in Wittenberg) married on September 10, 1678 Dr. Ludwig Lentz (born March 23, 1647 in Dresden, † December 29, 1720 in Dresden)

Selection of works

  • Disp. De Commerciorum navalium Jure singulari
  • De German. Principium jure
  • De Majestate legibus & armis instruenda
  • De religione & circa eam summi magistratus jure & autoritate
  • De Consistorii ecclesiastici juribus ad magistratum pertinentibus, Wittenberg 1651
  • De praeventione
  • De locatione & conductione
  • De sama publica, 1649
  • Ad I. Un. C. De sententiis pro eo, quod interest.
  • De proffessore
  • De processu secundae instantie, 1654
  • De successione conjugum, 1645
  • De tortura, 1652
  • De actione tutelae directa, 1638
  • Collegium juridicum Successionum from intestato VII Disputationibus propositum

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Christoph Dittscheid: Memento mori. The baroque epitaphs of the Protestant ambassador's cemetery at the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg . In: Imperial City and Perpetual Reichstag 1663–1806 (= Thurn and Taxis Studies , 20). Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 2001, ISBN 3-7847-1522-2 , pp. 209f
  2. ↑ Albrecht Klose and Klaus-Peter Rueß: The grave inscriptions on the sentry cemetery in Regensburg , Regensburger Studien 22, Stadtarchiv Regensburg (2015), ISBN 978-3943222-13-5 , pp. 94–96. .

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the epitaph it says that Strauch was present in two imperial elections. Then he would also have to participate in the election of Emperor Ferdinand III in 1637 . have participated
  2. ↑ The second wife is also named in the epitaph inscription and is referred to there as Anna Albertina, the widow and survivor against her will
predecessor Office successor
Heinrich von Friesen Saxon envoy to the Holy Roman Empire
1664–1664 		Anton von Schott
personal data
SURNAME Bush, Augustine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and Saxon diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1612
PLACE OF BIRTH Delitzsch
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1674
Place of death regensburg