David Amsing

David Amsinck, here as Mayor of Hanover

David Amsing (also: David Amsinck or Ambsing or Amsingius ; * February 25, 1617 in Hamburg ; † December 11, 1683 ) was a German lawyer , respondent at the University of Tübingen, as well as city counsel and mayor of the city of Hanover .

Life

David Amsing came from the old Hamburg patrician - Gender Amsingk or Amsinck , originally from the Netherlands in the Hanseatic city had immigrated. He was the son of the Hamburg councilor Rudolph Amsing and Elisabet de Hertoghe (also: Isabeau de Hertoghe ; born February 4, 1583 in Antwerp ; † February 17, 1662 in Hamburg), who also came from an old Dutch noble family . He was born shortly before the death of his grandfather Willem Amsinck and was baptized on February 27, 1617 in the Hamburg church of St. Catharinen . He first attended the learned school of the Johanneum and - in the middle of the Thirty Years War - from 1632 also the grammar school in his hometown. He then studied law in Jena from 1636 at the local Alma Mater Jenensis , but enrolled together with other Hamburg residents in the autumn of the same year for the winter semester 1636/1637 at the University of Erfurt , for which he had to pay 12 groschen . During this time Amsing became a half-orphan through the death of his father.

From Erfurt Amsing went to Groningen to the Reichsuniversität , in Utrecht to the university there , in Leyden to the Rijksuniversiteit , in Oxford to the university there , in Cambridge to the local university . In 1640 he went to Paris , he also visited Denmark .

Before completing his studies, Amsing was an observer at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer , and then also at the Reichstag in Regensburg . After a brief return to Hamburg, he presumably went to Holstein for a few years as an observer of the judicial practice . From there he went to Hanover, the city that had become the residence of the duchy from 1636 through the residence recession of Georg von Braunschweig-Calenberg . There he made the acquaintance of the Braunschweig-Lüneburg Chancellor Heinrich Langenbeck . On his recommendation, Amsing was proposed for the vacant position of the Hanover city syndic after the previous incumbent Georg Türke had been elected mayor of the city in 1654. Presumably in the hope of the promised and well-paid job, Amsing got engaged in autumn 1644 to Dorothea (* June 6, 1636; † November 13, 1707), the eldest daughter of Johann Duve - the city's wealthiest entrepreneur at the time Braunschweig-Lüneburg Oberbergfactor as well as councilor and businessman in Hanover. For the engagement celebrated on September 10th of that year in the Duveschen house , the Magister Samuel Ehrich († 1682) wrote some poems, some of them joking, which did not meet with unanimous approval elsewhere centuries later, especially since the Christian marriage was yes at the time of publication had not yet taken place.

In the autumn of 1654 David Amsing went from Hanover to Tübingen to the later Eberhard Karls University , where he wrote his dissertation in Latin under Wolfgang Adam Lauterbach on February 4, 1655 with the title De inofficiosa donatione ... and then from the rector Joachimus Gravius the title of Doctor of Both Rights (iuris utriusque doctor; JUD). received.

In January 1655, Amsing received a letter of appointment from the Hanover City Council dated December 31, 1654, was appointed to his office on March 28, 1655 according to the appointment document and already married his Dorothea on May 1, 1655 in the Marktkirche St. Jacobi and Georgy .

Finally David Amsing was elected mayor of Hanover in 1663 and succeeded Henning Lüdeke . In the roughly two decades of his tenure up to the year of his death in 1683, he took care of the churches and the school system in the city and, according to August Jugler , had earned some merit in doing so. He was also allegedly in contact with relatives in the Netherlands who were contacted during his study trips, including the mayor of Zwolle , Werner Crans .

David Amsing had seven children, including the lawyer Johann Amsinck (* September 1660, † December 8, 1713). He saw the birth of at least eleven grandchildren and died at the age of 66 in Hanover.

Just as for three of the Hanoverian counterparts of his time, a résumé of the funeral sermon given for him has also been handed down to David Amsing, who also trained as a lawyer . From these prints it can be seen that only the four mayors Georg Türke, Henning Lüdeke, Conrad Julius Hagemann and David Amsing were related or professionally related and, as patricians, exercised joint rule over the city of Hanover.

Fonts (selection)

• Wolfgang Adam Lauterbach (ed.), David Amsinck: Disquisitio De Inofficiosa Donatione ... , Tubingae, 1655; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library

literature

• Caesar Amsinck, Otto Hintze : The Rudolfinische Line. David Amsing, b. 1617, d. 1683 , in this: The Dutch and Hamburg family Amsinck: an attempt at a family history. (3 vol.), Vol. 1. From the middle of the 14th century to the beginning of the 18th century , [Hamburg, Willistr. 25]: [A. Amsinck], 1886, pp. 90-99; Digitized
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. A source and research work on genealogy and cultural history , Vol. 7: Treated persons with the numbers R6001 - R7000 : No. 6964 , p. 495, Boppard / Rhein, [Schützenstr. 15]: F. Roth
• David Amsing, JUD, Syndikus in Hanover , in Christian Ziegra (ed.): Nicolaus Wilckens, former IUD and Archivarius of the City of Hamburg, Hamburg Temple of Honor in which a lot of credible, and as much as possible complete descriptions of lives of learned and deserving men, who partly in partly born outside of Hamburg, and served there in the spiritual and secular class of the city, or stayed in a private life, or were promoted abroad ... , Hamburg: CS Schröder, 1770, p. 598ff .; Digitized via Google books

See also

• List of the main administrative officials of Hanover

Web links

Commons : Amsinck family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Amsing, David in the general catalog of German-language funeral sermons (GESA)

Remarks

1. ↑ Deviating from this, the date of birth is mentioned February 15 ; Compare Gerhard Köbler : Universität Hamburg (historical status around 2008, subsequent changes can unfortunately not be taken into account) / All persons are recorded in chronological order for whom the respective university location appears at any point in my career on the page koeblergerhard.de , last accessed on July 20, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Caesar Amsinck, Otto Hintze: The Rudolfinische Line. David Amsing, b. 1617, d. 1683 , in this: The Dutch and Hamburg family Amsinck: an attempt at a family history. (3 vol.), Vol. 1. From the middle of the 14th century to the beginning of the 18th century , [Hamburg, Willistr. 25]: [A. Amsinck], 1886, pp. 90-99; Digitized
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} N.N. : Dorothea Duve ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2016 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. , Family tree on armigerousdescents.com , last accessed July 20, 2016 
4. ^ ^{A b c d e f g h i j} Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : The royal seat of Hanover. From the taking of residence in 1636 to the beginning of the 19th century. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt and Druckerei, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , pp. 173, 180, 254; online through google books
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} David Amsing, JUD, Syndikus in Hanover , in Christian Ziegra (ed.): Nicolaus Wilckens, formerly IUD and Archivarius of the City of Hamburg, Hamburgischer Ehrentempel in which a lot of credible and as much as possible complete descriptions of lives are learned and deserving men, some of whom were born outside of Hamburg, and who served there in the spiritual and worldly class of the city, or who remained in a private life or were promoted abroad ... , Hamburg: CS Schröder, 1770, P. 598ff .; Digitized via Google books
6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Residenzrezess (contract). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 521.
7. ↑ Gerhard Köbler : Universität Hamburg (historical status around 2008, subsequent changes can unfortunately not be taken into account) / All persons are recorded in chronological order for whom the respective university location appears at any point in my career on the page koeblergerhard.de , last accessed on July 20, 2016