Franz Algermann

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Franz Algermann , also Franciscus Algerman (* 1548 in Celle ; † July 26, 1613 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German cantor , land tax office , notary and writer.

Life

Franz Algermann was born in Celle in 1548. He was the son of the Beedenbostel pastor Magister Johann Algermann and his wife Maria, daughter of the Celle reformer Urbanus Rhegius . He studied in Wittenberg from 1566 and in Strasbourg from 1568 . D. Ernst Regius, Professor of Greek Language and Law, was one of his academic teachers there. From 1569 Algermann worked for a short time as a teacher at St. Aegidien in Braunschweig before continuing his studies in Wittenberg and Frankfurt (Oder) . There he finished his presumably theological studies without subsequently assuming a pastor's office. After graduating , he worked as a cantor in Brandenburg Neustadt for two years before working as a typing and arithmetic teacher in Helmstedt . In 1575 he went to the ducal court in Wolfenbüttel, where he worked as cantor, bassist and clerk. Algermann married in 1578 the daughter of the of the Brunswick Martinikirche active organist Thomas Kelner. In 1580 he was appointed a notary by the Vice Rector of the University of Helmstedt . In 1581, Duke Julius was appointed to the tax authorities in embarrassing and border matters .

Together with the master builder Paul Francke , the councilor Abel Ruck († 1596) and the form cutter Georg Scharfenberg from Görlitz, Algermann created a large-format, illustrated family table with prize poems about the Welfenhaus on a ducal commission in 1582 . Two copies have survived, one of which is in the Herzog August Library (HAB Graph. A4: 18, 19) and one in the Wolfenbüttel State Archives (StA Wf 26 Slg 253 R). In 1583 Algermann took part in the deliberations on the concord formula during the Quedlinburg Colloquium . He was entrusted with the tasks of state prospecting and land surveying in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . As a result of this activity, he published a description of the Wolfenbüttel office in 1584 .

After Duke Julius' death in 1589, his son Heinrich Julius took office. With this Algermann fell temporarily out of favor, so that in 1590 he asked to leave the ducal service. He subsequently worked as a notary in Wolfenbüttel, pursued his interests in church music and writing, and was temporarily called on to serve on ducal commissions. In 1605 he was a member of the negotiating commission in the dispute with the city of Braunschweig. Algermann's best-known writings include his biography of Duke Julius, written in 1598 and published in 1822 by Friedrich Karl von Strombeck .

Algermann died in July 1613 in Wolfenbüttel, where he was buried on July 26th in the Heinrichstadt cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • True genealogy , well-founded in proven histories , Wolfenbüttel 1584.
  • Ephemeris hymnorum ecclesiasticorum ex patribus selecta , Helmstedt 1596.
  • The biography of Duke Julius of Braunschweig . In: Friedrich Karl von Strombeck (ed.): Celebration of the memory of the previous Julia Carolina University of Helmstedt , Helmstedt 1822. ( digitized version )
  • Heavenly Cantorei di Psalmen Davids, Singing , Hamburg 1604.
  • Kurtzer Extract or Extract auß etl. famous histories and other documents from the inheritance of the city of Braunschweig etc. , 1605. ( digitized version )
  • Cithara Davidis , Wolfenbüttel 1610.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Lippelt: Several causes of the ruin of the poor people in the ambt Wulffenbuttel . In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 84, Braunschweig 2003, p. 69.
  2. ↑ DI 45, City of Goslar, No. 98 (Christine Magin). In: www.inschriften.net ( online )
  3. ↑ Christian Lippelt: Several causes of the ruin of the poor people in the ambt Wulffenbuttel . In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 84, Braunschweig 2003, p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Algermann, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Algerman, Franciscus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cantor, rural tax office, notary and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1548
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1613
Place of death Wolfenbüttel