David Gloxin (politician, 1568)

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David Gloxin on his epitaph

David Gloxin (born February 8, 1568 in Arnswalde , † September 11, 1646 in Lübeck ) was a German mayor in Burg on Fehmarn .

origin

David Gloxin's family on his father's side came from Frankfurt an der Oder . His father Balthasar Gloxin († 1604) was pastor and superintendent in Arnswalde . His brother Benjamin Gloxin was a pharmacist and mayor of Worms and founded the south-west German branch of Gloxin there. The plant genus Gloxinia goes back to the botanist and doctor Benjamin Peter Gloxin (1765–1794) in Colmar from the south-west German branch of the family.

Life

After studying at the University of Vienna in 1588, David Gloxin was first rector of the Latin school in Woerden in the Netherlands. In 1592 he married his first wife Margareta von Hövelstein († 1609) there. She was the daughter of the mayor Gisebrecht of Hoevel stone in Bodegraven . From this marriage he had several children, including David the Younger , who as a lawyer became Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and later its mayor , Balthasar (1601–1654), the Holstein chancellery and Lübeck canon , and Gysebrecht; The latter was imprisoned in the Lübeck Marstall in 1614 and later became an organist in Stettin .

In 1595 David Gloxin settled in Burg on Fehmarn as city secretary and organist . In 1608 he became a councilor, but remained organist until 1612. He became prosperous through the grain trade. He maintained close ties to Lübeck, where he sent his sons to the Katharineum . After the death of his first wife, he married Gertrud Conrads from Lübeck, sister of the Lübeck Council Secretary Johann Conrad .

David Gloxin's second wife died in 1626. After the lost battle near Lutter during the Thirty Years War , Danish troops fled to Fehmarn, which actually belonged to Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf . Imperial troops followed in the fall. David Gloxin, the senior councilor, was hired to negotiate with the intruders even though he was actually bedridden. He couldn't prevent the occupation. Because of his serious illness, he left the island and was nursed to health by his sons in Lübeck. After the Danish King Christian IV recaptured the island in the spring of 1628, Gloxin returned home. He was partially resented that he had left the island during the occupation. However, a farmer who sued him for this was sentenced to pay compensation.

In 1629, half of the inhabitants of Fehmarn fell victim to the plague . Gloxin's four children from a second marriage and the third Fehmarn- born wife Telsche Pechlin, daughter of a councilor, also died. David Gloxin married a fourth time. With Elisabeth Boder (~ 1610–1670), the daughter of a citizen of Lübeck, he had another son, Benjamin. In 1630 he became mayor of Burg. As a councilor, he campaigned for church music.

David Gloxin died with his older sons in Lübeck. They erected an epitaph for him in the Nikolaikirche in Burg. The epitaph bears the inscription :

"The Eve of Honor, honorable, well-learned and wise Mayor David Gloxinius fell asleep blissfully in God on Sept. 11th, 1646 in the 79th year of his age, after he had faithfully presided over this city in churches and regiments for 54 years 4 surviving sons: Giesebrecht - D. David, the keyserl. free imperial city Lübeck Syndicus - D. Balthaser, who ruled to Schleswig-Holstein princely. Your Highness Councilor and Canon of the Thumberstift in Lübeck - and have Benjamin put this epitaph after her blessed father in honor and good memory "

This epitaph, like that of his youngest son, is preserved. Benjamin Gloxin died as a student in Jena in 1658 after a long illness.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann: Gloxin. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. 6, p. 98. Author of Apologia on Joh. Capito's diatribe against the Concordien-Buch , 1589
  2. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann: Gloxin, David (1568–1646). In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. 6, pp. 101f.
  3. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann: Gloxin, Balthasar. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. 6, p. 99f.
  4. ^ Hartwig Beseler : Art Topography Schleswig-Holstein. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1974, p. 494.
  5. ↑ Epitaphs of the Nikolaikirche Burg
  6. ↑ Personnel following the funeral sermon on Benjamin Gloxin
personal data
SURNAME Gloxin, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Mayor in Burg on Fehmarn
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1568
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnswalde
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1646
Place of death Lübeck