Christoph Gertner von Gartenberg
Christoph Gertner von Gartenberg (* 1626 in Großbuch ; † January 13, 1689 ) was a German lawyer and language teacher for the King of Sweden.
Life
Christoph Gertner was born the son of the preacher Johann Gertner. He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . Because of the unrest in the Thirty Years War , he studied philology with Valentin Thilo the Younger and Simon Dach at the Albertina Königsberg . He became a licentiate in law. He then gave a lecture on philological topics in Erfurt . He traveled to France, England and Holland. He was also a wage earner in the Spanish military for some time. He later worked as a language teacher for King Charles XI. of Sweden . From 1672 he was Royal Secretary of State and Councilor of Livonia . In 1677 he bought a manor in Livonia from the commercial director Roger Niederhos. An illness forced him to retire. The Swedish king worried about a pension and ennobled him.
Works
- Christopheri Gertneri a Gartenberg Epistolarum Familiarum ad diversos centuriae Decem , 1680
literature
- Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Zweyter Volume GK, Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen and Son, Mittau 1829, p. 29 f. google-online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gertner von Gartenberg, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and language teacher for the Swedish king |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1626 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Capital book |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1689 |