Conrad von Humbracht
Conrad von Humbracht (* around 1511 or 1512 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 24, 1582 there ) was a German legal scholar, clergyman and politician.
life and work
Humbracht was the son of the Frankfurt cloth merchant Claus Humbracht († 1523) and his wife Anna geb. Märckel (1492 – after 1538). In 1528 he entered the White Women's Monastery as an altarist , and from 1530 to 1539 he was canon of the Liebfrauenstift . He studied law in Freiburg , Basel , Bourges and Bologna and graduated with a doctorate to Dr. iur. from. In 1539 he returned to Frankfurt am Main, where the Reformation had been introduced in 1533 . Humbracht therefore left the clergy and embarked on a political career. 1547 he was appointed as a member of the ganerbschaft Old Limpurg in the Council of the imperial city called Frankfurt, 1548 Alderman. In 1554, 1559, 1565, 1570 and 1575 he was elected Senior Mayor of the city. In addition, in 1555 he was the ambassador of the imperial city of Frankfurt to the Reichstag in Augsburg , where the Augsburg religious peace was passed.
He was married since March 8, 1546 to Lucretia von Helle, called Pfeffer (buried September 5, 1599 in Frankfurt). She was the last of the von Helle patrician family in Frankfurt.
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Humbracht, Conrad von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar, clergyman and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1512 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1582 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |