David Brown

David Braun (* 1664 in Kraplau near Osterode (today Kraplewo, district of Ostróda), † 1737 ) was burgrave of Marienburg , a historian and creator of the Bibliotheca Brauniana , as well as a councilor in the Kingdom of Prussia .

Life

After completing military training, Braun became court master of General Field Marshal Gustav Vilhelm von Wedel-Jarlsberg in Norway in 1687 . Two years later he entered Polish service and, as war commissioner, was given supreme command of the Polish crown artillery, and he was also burgrave of Marienburg. After the Polish campaign against the Tatars , he led the Polish crown artillery back to Prussia in 1698 and was enfeoffed by the Polish king with the Herrenhagen estate near Marienburg. In 1704, after the invasion of the Swedish army, he said goodbye and left Polish services to take a new job in the newly founded Kingdom of Prussia. In 1706 the Prussian King Friedrich I appointed him a Prussian court counselor. Braun administered the Elbingen territory until 1720 . He then retired to the Eichwalde estate near Elbing. There Braun devoted himself entirely to his historical, literary and scientific interests.

He wrote the historical work De Scriptorum Poloniæ et Prussiæ , in which he described the history of Poland and Prussia. The book was published in Cologne in 1723. In the Scriptores Prutenici he described the Acta Publica Constitutio der Lande Prussen , as well as the Excerpta ex recessibus conventualibus Prussiæ Occidentalis from anno 1414-1616 .

Works

• De Scriptorum Poloniæ et Prussiæ (Cologne 1723).

literature

• C. Krollmann: Old Prussian Biography , Vol. 1, P. 90.