Franciscus Knockert
Franciscus Knockert (* in Lübeck ; † November 1, 1619 ibid) was a German lawyer and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Franciscus Knockert was the son of the Lübeck citizen Johann Knockert. He enrolled in the winter semester 1561/1562 to study law at the University of Leipzig . He completed his studies with a master's degree. In 1573 he was hired as a servant and registrar at the council chancellery on the basis of an annual contract with half-yearly notice. In 1582 he became council secretary in Lübeck. In 1602 he was entrusted with the management of the Upper Town Book as the oldest council secretary , a task that until then the former council secretary Thomas Rehbein, appointed councilor in 1593 , had reserved for himself. Correspondingly, it has also been proven as a protonotary at least since 1603 . In 1614, because of old age in the management of the Upper Town Book, the council secretary Theodor Glazer was placed at his side, who, however, died before him in 1617. Its now high German entries mark the change from Middle Low German to High German firm language in Lübeck.
Knockert was the executor of the will of Councilor Henning Parcham, who died in 1602, and was thus one of the founding boards of the Parcham Foundation, which still exists in Lübeck today .
literature
- Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council clerks until the constitutional amendment of 1851 in: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 145
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Heinsohn: The penetration of the New High German written language in Lübeck during the 16th and 17th centuries , Verlag des Staatsarchiv zu Lübeck, 1933
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knockert, Franciscus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1619 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |