Caspar Pezel

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Caspar Pezel (born June 16, 1573 in Wittenberg ; † February 10, 1634 in Detmold ) was a German lawyer, archivist and librarian.

Life

Caspar Pezel was the son of the Reformed theologian Christoph Pezel and his second wife Catharina Rhau, a daughter of the Wittenberg printer Georg Rhau . He was baptized on June 17, 1573 in Wittenberg. In view of the fact that at that time there was an electoral Saxon regulation that the newborn children should be baptized within 24 hours, it should have seen the light of day the day before. After initial education in Bremen and at the school in Herborn , he acquired the academic degree of Magister in Philosophy at the University of Wittenberg in 1586 . Dedicated to studying law , he also frequented Heidelberg University from 1593 . From 1595 he got a job at the court of Count John VI. from Nassau-Dillenburg in Dillenburg . From 1600 he was a councilor at the court of Simon VI. and active as court judicial tax office. From 1611 he was in charge of the Count's private library and the archive in Brake Castle as successor to Johann Philipp Engering . After the death of Simon VI. His successor Simon VII had the book stocks transferred to the “Count's Public Library” in the Detmold Provincial School at that time. Pezel also took over the administration of the library and was the first librarian of a public library in Lippe. He looked after the archive and library until his death in 1634. Around 800 books and manuscripts from his estate have passed into the possession of the library, today's Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold .

literature

  • Hilde Kraemer: Libraries in Ostwestfalen-Lippe and their collectors . Detmold 1980, p. 32 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pezel, Caspar. In: Internet portal "Westphalian history" . May 20, 2010, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Theodor Wotschke: From Wittenberg church books . In: Archive for the history of the Reformation. (ARG) Vol. 29, 1932, pp. 169-223
  3. ^ Karl Pallas: The registries of the church visits in the former Saxon spa district. Otto Hendel, Halle (Saale), 1906 to 1914,
  4. ^ Thomas Elsmann: Humanism, School, Book Printing and Antiques Reception . In: City and literature in the German-speaking area of ​​the early modern period . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-484-36539-0 , p. 223-224 .
  5. ↑ Joachim Eberhardt, Detlev Hellfaier (Ed.): 1614–2014 - 400 Years Lippische Landesbibliothek (=  selection and exhibition catalogs of the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold . Volume 38 ). 2014, ISBN 978-3-9806297-6-8 , pp. 26-27 .
  6. ^ Hans Kiewning : The state library. In: The Lippe regional administration in the post-war period. 1932, pp. 203–206 , accessed on October 18, 2014 (reproduced on the website of the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold ).
  7. ↑ Detlev Hellfaier: Intellectual and cultural life at the court Simons VI. In: Heimatland Lippe 79. 1986, pp. 123-137 , accessed on October 18, 2014 (reproduced on the website of the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold).
  8. ^ Heinrich Haxel : The Lippische Landesbibliothek: A historical review. In: Lippe 100 years ago. 1961, accessed on October 18, 2014 (reproduced on the website of the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold).
personal data
SURNAME Pezel, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pezelius, Casparus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, librarian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1573
PLACE OF BIRTH Lutherstadt Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1634
Place of death Detmold