Eckard from Usedom
Eckard von Usedom , also Eckhard (t) , (* 1580 ; † March 8, 1646 ) was a German lawyer and court president in the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast .
Life
Eckard (III.) Von Usedom came from the Pomeranian noble family von Usedom . Around 1608 he was a court advisor , later a privy councilor in the Electoral Palatinate . When the situation changed there, he went to the Reich Chamber of Commerce as an assessor . In 1610 he was attacked by soldiers in Dachstein in Alsace and seriously wounded.
In 1623 he became a ducal secret legation councilor and later chancellor of Pomerania . In 1625 he was appointed president of the court and castle captain in Wolgast . He was repeatedly entrusted with important matters by the dukes Philipp Julius and Bogislaw XIV . During the Thirty Years' War he and Thomas Heydebreck negotiated the Greifswald settlement concluded on February 11, 1628 with the Imperial Colonel von Arnim .
Although he wanted to retire from his offices for health reasons in 1632, he took over the office of Governor of Rügen , which he administered until the end of his life.
In his will he donated several grants to the University of Greifswald . His book collection went to the Greifswald University Library .
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Vol. 9, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1870, reprint: Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-04558-3 , p. 350 ( digitized version )
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part 4, Vol. 1, W. Dietze, Anklam 1866, pp. 1028-1030 ( digitized version )
- Maciej Ptaszynski: “Si hominibus placerem, servus dei non essem”. A case of refusal of communion in the Duchy of Pommern-Wolgast in the 17th century . In: Baroque. German-Polish cultural contacts in the 16th-18th centuries Century. Osnabrück 2006, ISBN 978-3-938400-13-5 , pp. 33-54. (an essay about the life of Eckard von Usedom)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Zober : History of the siege of Stralsund by Wallenstein, in 1628 . W. Trinius, Stralsund 1828, p. 25 ( digitized version )
- ^ Julius Petzholdt : Handbook of German Libraries . HW Schmidt, Halle 1853, p. 157 ( digitized version )
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SURNAME | Usedom, Eckard von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Usedom, Eckhardt from |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and President of the Court of Justice |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1580 |
DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1646 |