Christoph Brandis

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Christoph Brandis (* in Werl , Westphalia ; † March 10, 1658 in Rüthen in Westphalia) was Mayor of Rüthen and historian.

Life

Brandis was a Werler heirloom . He came to Rüthen probably through the family connections of his mother, who came from the Burgmann family there from Bruwerdinchusen . He lived there in the ancestral home of the maternal family in the area of ​​the Oester peasantry of the city. In his honor, the place was called Brandiseck in the 19th century. He was married twice - his first marriage to Barbara, the widow of the former mayor of Rüthen, Hellwig von Loen, who died in 1608. Second marriage to Maria Torwesten from Geseke, from which three daughters emerged, Anna, Anna Maria and the later childless Agnes Barbara.

Brandis quickly gained a reputation in the city. He defended her rights against attempts by the elector to intervene. He was mayor of the city in 1652 and 1656 and also represented it as a deputy in the state parliament of the Duchy of Westphalia .

In the trial against the electoral judge Schellewald, he presented a large number of documents as evidence and thus probably became aware of the content of the city archive.

On this basis he wrote a history of the city of Rüthen. In addition to the history of the city, this contains a lot of information on the history of the Westphalian state in general. This work was used by other early modern historians such as Johann Dietrich von Steinen for their work. In a first part he described the general history of the city up to the end of the Thirty Years War . In a second part, Brandis described the noble and patrician families of the city. The work was later supplemented by a Conrad Röingh with a third part. This deals with the economy and city law.

Brandis also wrote a diary about the Thirty Years War.

Works

  • Christoph Brandis: History of the city of male dogs. [around 1650] reprinted in: Johann Suibert Seibertz : Sources for Westphalian History Vol. 1 Arnsberg, 1857 pp. 221–318 digitized

literature

  • Johann Suibert Seibertz: Westphalian contributions to German history. Vol. 1 Darmstadt, 1819 99-103
  • General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. Part 12. Leipzig 1824, 259

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Bender: History of the city of dogs. Verlag der Stein'schen Buchhandlung, Werl 1848, p. 71 . [1]
  2. ^ Karl H. Boley: Founder a. Orth Foundation from Hagen . Ed .: West German Society for Family Studies. tape 1 . West German Society for Family Studies , Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-933364-24-8 , p. 98 .
  3. ^ Friedrich von Klocke: The patriciate problem and the Werler Erbsälzer. Aschendorffsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Münster 1965, p. 225-226 .
  4. ↑ Church registers of the parish of St. Nikolaus in Rüthen .
personal data
SURNAME Brandis, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mayor and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Werl , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1658
Place of death Rüthen