Ernst Ludwig Avemann
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Ernst Ludwig Avemann (born December 28, 1609 in Eisenach ; † May 17, 1689 at Mönchhof Palace ) was a Saxon diplomat and politician .
Life
Ernst Ludwig Avemann was the son of the Eisenach mayor Caspar von Letta called Avemann and his wife Christiane (née Scherz).
He initially attended school in Eisenach and then the Coburg grammar school with the rector Johann Matthäus Meyfart .
1630 enrolled him at the University of Jena and began studying law , the philosophy and history ; He continued his studies at the University of Rostock , where after a short time he was giving lectures as a private lecturer .
In 1639 he became educator of the son of Burgrave Georg von Kirchberg (1569–1641), Sigismund Henrich von Kirchberg (1623–1646) in Farnroda . Together he traveled to Holland with his pupil and stayed there in Leiden for a year and a half . During his stay he met the scholars Daniel Heinsius , Claudius Salmasius , Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn and Jacobus Maestertius . He then traveled with his pupil to England and from there to Paris until they heard of the death of Burgrave Georg von Kirchberg and returned to Farnroda. The burgrave's widow, Dorothea Magdalene (1595–1646), daughter of Heinrich II. Von Reuss-Gera , appointed him to her guardianship council, at the same time he received the position of a syndic from the Eisenach estates .
In 1646 he received his doctorate in law at the University of Jena and in 1649 Duke Ernst the Pious appointed him as court and government councilor in Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha and in 1660 appointed him consistorial president.
From February 28, 1663 to 1666, he was envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg , where he had a conversation with Baron Justinian von Welz , who wanted to present a concept for the establishment of a missionary society, but then no approval from the Protestant imperial estates received.
After his return to Gotha he was appointed Vice Chancellor on April 6, 1666, and Privy Councilor and Chancellor on September 25, 1672 ; During his stay in Regensburg , he lost his valuable library on July 10, 1665, during the last great city fire in which 185 houses in Gotha were destroyed .
From 1685 to 1688 he stayed as an envoy at the imperial court in Vienna .
Ernst Ludwig Avemann was married to Magdalena Barbara (* May 4, 1626 in Gotha; † December 19, 1711 ibid), daughter of the Saxon councilor and land rent master Johann Heinrich Kolhans (1588–1650). Five of their eleven children died in childhood, his children who reached adulthood are:
- Anne Dorothea Avemann, married to Gustav Christian Happe († 1708), Chancellor in Sondershausen , whose grandson was Gustav Adolf von Gotter ;
- Adolph Christian Avemann , lawyer and diplomat; Saxon-Gotha secret war u. Councilor, 1697 envoy to the peace of Rijswijck ;
- Magdalene Sophie married to Johann Jacob Aviani, Imperial Court Judge and Privy Councilor of Saxony;
- Johann Heinrich Avemann, died at the age of twenty-eight;
- Johanna Christine Avemann, married to Johann Arndt Jenicke, heir and court lord on Oberröblingen , princely Saxon-Weissenfels council and land commissioner ;
- Gustav Rudolph Avemann, princely secretary.
Among his descendants, who remained in the service of the castle counts in Kirchberg, was the councilor and archivist Heinrich Friedrich Avemann (born May 3, 1678 in Eisenach, † 1751 in Hachenburg ), author of the description of the noble family of the imperial and burgraves of Kirchberg .
Fonts (selection)
- Erasmus Ungepaur ; Ernst Ludwig Avemann: De judicio feudali et actionibus feudi nomine competentibus . Jenae, P. Lippold, 1636.
- Nicolaus Schütze ; Ernst Ludwig Avemann: Disputatio Juridica De Substitutionibus, Materia difficillimaj uxta ac utilißima . Rostoch: Kilius, 1637.
- Ernst Ludwig Avemann; Erasmus Ungepauer: Disputatio inauguralis trigam decadum variarum lectissimarumque juris positionum exhibens, quam praeside Erasmo Ungepaur, examini subjicit Ernestus Ludovicus Avemann, ad diem 3 julii . Ienae: Prelo Lobensteiniano, 1643.
literature
- August Beck: Avemann, Ernst Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 698.
- Ernst Ludwig Avemann . In: Necessary Supplements to the Great Complete Universal Lexicon , Volume 2. Leipzig 1751. S. 736.
Web links
- Ernst Ludwig Avemann . In: Digital portrait index .
- Ernst Ludwig Avemann . In: The portrait collection of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels-Lexicon, from the princely counts' houses in the Prussian monarchy . Reichenbach, 1836 ( google.de [accessed December 18, 2019]).
- ^ Association Herold: The German Herold: Journal for coat of arms, seal u. Family studies . P. 143 f. Heymanns [in Komm.], 1873 ( google.de [accessed on December 18, 2019]).
- ↑ Ernst Ludewich Aveman (1636 Mich.) @ Rostocker matriculation portal. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Hachenburg City Archives: Miscellaneous. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Heinrich Rudolph Heydenreich: Denckwürdige Annales What Anno 1665 to 1690. So probably in H. Rom. Rich, than other foreign kingdoms, principalities and lands, but especially in the principality of Gotha and its resident city, notables and changeable things happened and happened: In addition to some useful historical and chronological notes that serve to explain them, also genealogies necessary for families in some cases, with attached perfect indice . S. 8, 9, 69, 382. Hansche, 1721 ( google.de [accessed on December 18, 2019]).
- ↑ Hartmut Laufhütte , Michael Titzmann: Heterodoxy in the early modern times . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-092869-3 ( google.de [accessed December 18, 2019]).
- ^ Friedrich I. von Sachsen-Gotha and Altenburg: Diaries 1667 to 1686. Commentary and register . Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-02970-6 ( google.de [accessed December 18, 2019]).
- ↑ Johann Heinrich Gelbke: Duke Ernst the First called the Pious of Gotha as a person and regent: a historical representation drawn from acts and proven pamphlets and with a document book . Perthes, 1810 ( google.de [accessed December 18, 2019]).
- ↑ 1640 - 1775. In: Gotha.de. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
- ^ Portrait I 475 - portrait collection of the HAB. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
- ^ German biography: Happe, Gustav Christian - German biography. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
- ^ Rolf Straubel: Biographical handbook of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740-1806 / 15 . Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44130-1 ( google.de [accessed December 18, 2019]).
- ^ Avemann, Adolph Christian - portrait collection of the HAB. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Avemann, Ernst Ludwig |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Avemann, Ernestus Ludovicus; Avemann, Ernst Ludewig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1609 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisenach |
DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1689 |
Place of death | Mönchhof Castle |