Christoph Siricius
Christoph Siricius (born March 12, 1632 in Lübeck ; † July 30, 1692 ibid) was a German lawyer and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Christoph Siricius was the son of the pastor of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, Michael Siricius (1588–1648). His older brothers were Michael Siricius , a Mecklenburg councilor and professor of theology in Gießen and Rostock, and Johann Siricius , later also council secretary, then councilor and mayor in Lübeck.
Christoph Siricius studied law at the University of Rostock from 1648 , and after a break in Lübeck from 1651 in Gießen and at the Leucorea in Wittenberg, where he is also recorded as a respondent . In 1659 he became secretary of a Lübeck embassy to King Friedrich III. from Denmark. In 1660 he was ambassador to King Karl X. Gustav of Sweden from Lübeck and in Copenhagen in 1662/63 . Two years followed as the secret secretary of Duke Adolf Johann von Pfalz-Zweibrücken in Speyer , the younger brother of King Karl X. Gustav. In 1670 he was again as envoy, in 1672 as legation secretary in Copenhagen. From 1673 until his impeachment due to weakness and mental illness in 1683 he was council secretary in Lübeck.
In 1673 Christoph married Siricius Dorothea, a daughter of the Lübeck councilor Kaspar von Deginck . For the wedding, Dietrich Buxtehude composed the wedding aria Auf, Saiten, auf! Let your sound ring! ( BuxWV 115 ). The couple's sons were the pastor Johann Hermann Siricius and the secretary of the mountain drivers Michael Christoph Siricius .
Fonts
- Dno. Joachimo from Deginck et Virgini Catharinæ Finhagen. Sponsis affinibusqve Lectissimis congratulations . Venator, 1675
literature
- Vita et elogium Christophori Siricii secretarii (according to his notes). Lübeck und D.
- Siricius (Christoph). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 37, Leipzig 1743, column 1800.
- Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council clerks until the constitutional amendment of 1851 . In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte , Volume 29 (1938), pp. 154/155
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, no.795
- ^ Kerala J. Snyder : Dieterich Buxtehude: organist in Lübeck . University Rochester Press, 1987, p. 48 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siricius, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1632 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1692 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |