Conrad Widow

Conrad Widow (copperplate engraving by Christian Fritzsch )

Conrad Widow (born August 13, 1686 in Hamburg ; † October 19, 1754 ibid) was a German lawyer , councilor and mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Life

Born in Hamburg, Widow attended the learned school of the Johanneum from 1699 and the academic high school from 1702 . After finishing school, he studied law at the University of Giessen and the University of Halle , then toured Holland, England and France before graduating from the University of Strasbourg in 1714 with a degree in both law .

After completing his studies, Widow returned to Hamburg in 1715 and settled here as a lawyer . Just three years later, on June 4, 1718, he was elected councilor. From 1724 to 1726 he belonged to the group of authors of the moral weekly Der Patriot published in Hamburg . This publication became an important mouthpiece for the Early Enlightenment in Germany.

In 1726 Widow traveled to Hanover as councilor together with the council syndicate Johann Julius Surland (1687–1748). Before that, Albrecht Peter Meyer (1687–1736) had been introduced by the electoral government as a preacher at Hamburg Cathedral . The Hamburgers wanted to continue to choose their own preacher. Widow and Surland negotiated this in Hanover. When the Hanoverian Elector George I died in 1727, the two traveled to London on the same matter, congratulated the new King George II on his accession to the throne and received a promise of a settlement from him, which, however, only came about in 1737.

On December 1, 1742 Widow was elected mayor as the successor to the late Rütger Rulant (1665–1742). As mayor, Widow laid the foundation stone for three Hamburg churches: in 1743 for the Trinity Church in Sankt Georg , in 1751 for the Great Michaelis Church and in 1754 for the Small Michaelis Church .

Widow died in 1754 at the age of 68. A mayor's penny was minted on his death .

family

Widow was a son of the Hamburg merchant Libert Widow († 1702) and his wife Antoinette Vegesack († 1695), daughter of the Hamburg senior citizen and councilor Cord Vegesack (1609-1697).

Widow married Margaretha Schrötteringk (1701–1731) in his first marriage on November 30, 1718, Anna Gertrud de Hertoghe (1709–1736) in her second marriage on February 23, 1735 and Cornelia Wiese (1718–1765) in third marriage on April 7, 1744 ), Daughter of Mayor Hinrich Diederich Wiese and widow of Mayor Rütger Rulant (1665–1742), who, after Widow's death in 1755, married Johann Julius von Hecht (1721–1792), a Prussian resident of the Hanseatic cities and the Lower Saxony District in Hamburg .

The Mayor of Hamburg, Peter Hinrich Widow (1736–1802) was a son from the second marriage.

Works (selection)

• Satura rerum, quae ad jus spectant, singularium . Henning Müller, Giessen 1707 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Dissertation juridica inauguralis exhibens specimina praxeos optimas juris romani leges negligentis exhibens . Johann Pastorius, Strasbourg in Alsace 1714 ( digitized from Google Books).

literature

• Hermann Samuel Reimarus : Vitam Optime De Patria Meriti Consulis Viri Illustris Magnifici Et Consultissimi Conradi Widovii JUL Postquam D. XIX Octobris Anni MDCCLIV Quod Est Mortale Exuisset Piae Memoriae Causa Ex Amplissimi Senatus Decreto . Conrad König, Hamburg 1754 ( digitized on the pages of the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen ).
• Johann Dietrich Winckler : Conrad Widow . In: News from Lower Saxony famous people and families . First volume. Nicolaus Conrad Wörmer, Hamburg 1768, p. 275–282 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Friedrich Georg Buek : Conrad Widow, JUL In: Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who have died since the Reformation . Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1840, p. 211–215 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Anton Heinrich Kellinghusen: Widow (Conrad, JUL) I. In: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 8 , no. 4347 . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1883 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library ).

Web links

• Conrad Widow on Hamburg personalities

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Scheibe: The "Patriot" (1724-1726) and his audience .
2. ^ Hans Schröder : Surland (Johann Julius I., JU Dr.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 7 , no. 3987 . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1879 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library). Facsimile ( memento of the original from October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Klaus Puester: possibilities and failings of mercantile policy in the electorate of Hanover, taking into account the influence of the personal union with the Kingdom of Great Britain . Chemoprint, Hamburg 1966, p. 180 ( online at Google Books).