Daniel Matthias

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Daniel Matthias also Matthiass or Mathias (* December 15, 1571 in Berlin ; † August 19, 1619 ibid.) Was a Brandenburg Privy Councilor and Vice Chancellor.

Life

Coat of arms of those Matthias zu Berlin

Origin and family

Daniel Matthias was a member of a patrician- bourgeois family in Brandenburg that has been documented since the middle of the 15th century , which was raised to the imperial nobility in 1558 and produced numerous mayors and high officials. Her coat of arms showed the apostle Matthias at the top and a lion at the bottom in the shield, which was split on the left . Daniel's parents were the mayor of Berlin and electoral councilor Thomas Matthias (1520–1576) and his second wife Ursula Meyenburg. The mayor of Nordhausen , Michael Meyenburg († 1555), was his grandfather, the Secret Councilor and Vice Chancellor Michael Matthias († 1631) his brother, the Danish General Feldzeugmeister Joachim von Carpzov († 1628) his nephew and the Brandenburg-Danish court advisor Joachim Hübner (1565– 1614) his brother-in-law.

In 1601 Daniel married Katharina Hohenzweig, a daughter of the council treasurer and pharmacist Hohenzweig in Berlin. The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters, but only the daughters survived the father, including:

  • Ursula ⚭ 1637 Johann Bergius (1587–1658), Berlin Reformed theologian

Career

Already half-orphaned at the age of five, he was raised by his mother. He initially received private tuition, then attended the Berlin Gymnasium at the Gray Monastery and finally, from 1586, the Brandenburg University in Frankfurt . His subsequent Grand Tour took him to stops in Eisleben , Halle and Leipzig . Back in Berlin, he received a position as a court advocate in 1598. After he had gained some reputation at the Berlin Court of Appeal, he was promoted to councilor and lawyer at the cathedral chapter of Magdeburg in 1606 . During his employment there he was sent three times to the imperial court in Vienna. In 1615, Elector Johann Sigismund (1572–1619) made him his secret council and accepted him into the secret council . In the following year he was promoted to Vice Chancellor and was entrusted with the management of the Court of Appeal. After a business trip from Rheinsberg to Berlin, he died of a stroke .

literature

Individual evidence

Remarks

  1. ^ A b Christian Schmitz: Ratsbürgerschaft und Residenz Investigations on Berlin council families, marriage circles and social changes in the 17th century. (= Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, 101), De Gruyter 2002, pp. 48–49.
  2. ↑ At the top of Berlin
  3. ^ Siegfried Isaacsohn : History of the Prussian Officials from the Beginning of the 15th Century to the Present , Volume 1, Berlin 1873, pp. 66–67.
personal data
SURNAME Matthias, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurbrandenburg Secret Council and Vice Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1619
Place of death Berlin