Christian Cassius (lawyer, 1609)

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Christian Cassius (born July 8, 1609 in Schleswig ; † October 6, 1676 in Eutin ) was a German administrative officer and office director of three prince-bishops of Lübeck.

Life

Christian Cassius was a son of the ducal gottorpian secretary Andreas Cassius , who came from Pomerania . He attended the cathedral school in Schleswig and the academic high school in Hamburg . From 1628 to 1631 he studied philology, history and politics in Paris , where he lived in the house of the Swedish ambassador Hugo Grotius . In 1632 he went to the University of Leiden , where, through Grotius' recommendations, Daniel Heinsius and Claudius Salmasius welcomed him. In 1633 he returned to Schleswig-Holstein and in 1634, after further trips, he entered the service of the Lübeck prince-bishop Johann , first as chamber secretary. In 1638 he became a councilor, in 1644 a privy councilor and chancellery director. In this position he also served the successors of Bishop Hans , Christian Albrecht and August Friedrich . He represented the Eutin court in several diplomatic missions, including 1647 and 1648 to Osnabrück for the negotiations that led to the Peace of Westphalia and in which he and David Gloxin succeeded in securing the existence of the now only Protestant prince-bishopric , and in 1653 for the Reichstag to Regensburg .

Johann Heinrich Meibom dedicated his Tractus de usu flagrorum in re Medica & Veneria , a medical appreciation of the flagellation, to him .

Cassius Altar by Jürgen Ovens in the Eutin Church

Cassius was also dean of the collegiate monastery St. Michael in Eutin. For the collegiate church of St. Michaelis he donated the Cassius altar, later named after him, with pictures of the Lord's Supper (predella) and the resurrection of Christ painted by Jürgen Ovens in 1667 . The altar, which is only partially preserved, was for a long time in the Ostholstein Museum Eutin . Since the redesign of the chancel in 2007, both paintings have been placed in the Michaeliskirche again.

Christian Cassius was married three times:

  1. 1638 with Margaretha Elisabeth Busse / Bussius († 1641), daughter of the Gottorpischen chancellor Theodor Bussius (1584–1631) and Anna, geb. Clings
  2. July 11, 1644 with Anna Lüneburg (* October 2, 1605; † January 30, 1673), widow of the Prince-Bishop's Chancellor Martin Gerdes (1597–1643), daughter of councilor Hieronymus Lüneburg († 1633) and the Cæcilia, née. Wibbeking
  3. 1674 with Margaretha von Dorne, daughter of the Brandenburg council Hieronymus von Dorne

literature

  • Hermann Lebermann : Most excellent wisdom / Which in life demands / In death the ... Mr. Christian Cassius, The Käyserl. Maj. Pfaltz-Graff / des Heil. Rom. Reichs Exemptus, Dero Hochfürstl. Passage of the ... Bishop of Lübeck secret chamber Raht and Kantzeley director, also of the Euthin Decanus & c. : Who was born on the 8th day of the hay poppy in the 1609th year ... on the 6th day of the wine month of this 1676th year ... divorced from the ... world. Lübeck: Schmalhertz 1676
  • Karl Jansen:  Cassius, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 62.
  • Christian Cassius , Dansk biografisk leksikon

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Digitized version , Lübeck City Library
  2. ↑ Gertrud Schlüter-Göttsche: The painting of the resurrection of Christ by Jürgen Ovens from the Cassius altar formerly Michaeliskirche Eutin , in: Nordelbingen 40 (1971), pp. 77-90
  3. ↑ According to the pictures in Sacred Treasures in the Michaeliskirche in Eutin ; Figure in the picture index
personal data
SURNAME Cassius, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer and office director for three prince-bishops of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1609
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1676
Place of death Eutin