Friedrich Hortleder

Portrait of Friedrich Hortleder by Christian Richter

Friedrich Hortleder (born March 22, 1579 in Ampfurth , † June 5, 1640 in Jena ) was a German historian and politician .

Life

Hortleder came from a humble background and was the son of Hauptmann zu Ampfurth Valentin Hortleder and his wife Susanna Dorbencker.

Thanks to a scholarship, Hortleder was able to enroll at the University of Wittenberg on May 1, 1585 . In 1599 he also studied a semester at the University of Jena . On November 8, 1606 he received his doctorate from his supervisor Dominicus Arumäus with the thesis Dissertatio de vero sensu L. Non omnium . Hortleder was concerned with a sentence from Julianus Non omnium, quae a maioribus constituta sunt, ratio reddi potest .

While still a student, Hortleder married Catharina Barth (1582–1639) on November 17, 1606, a daughter of the Brandenburg councilor and Chancellor of Neumark, Carl Barth . With her he had a daughter, Anna Catharina (1614–1657), who was married to Zacharias Prueschenck von Lindenhofen from 1636 .

1608 was Hortleder by Duke Johann III. von Sachsen-Weimar to the preceptor of his son Duke Johann Ernst the Elder. J. von Sachsen-Weimar appointed. Together with Court Marshal Kaspar von Teutleben , he supervised this student from 1608 to 1612 while he was studying in Jena.

But also the Duke's other sons Friedrich von Sachsen-Weimar , Wilhelm IV. Von Sachsen-Weimar , Albrecht von Sachsen-Eisenach , Johann Friedrich von Sachsen-Weimar and Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar were entrusted to Hortleder as pupils.

In 1609 Hortleder got a teaching position at the University of Jena . He held his lectures and seminars in Latin, and he published in this language.

On January 22nd, 1617 he was appointed councilor . At about the same time he was entrusted with the management of the princely archive. He held this office until his death. With his political and legal reports, he actively helped to shape the fate of the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar.

During this time he also published his extensive main work on the Schmalkaldic War , which as a document book still has its undeniable value today. In 1645, this work saw a second edition, which was published by his son-in-law, Zacharias Prüschenk, with many copperplate engravings, including two remarkable illustrations of German mercenaries.

In mid-August 1639, Diederich was commissioned by the Werder from Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen to include Friedrich Hortleder in the Fruit-Bringing Society . On this occasion, Duke Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar was accepted into the company together with Hortleder .

Hortleder was given the company name of the decorator and the motto crazy limbs . The linen <Clematis vitalba L.> was given to him as an emblem . In Köthener society book to Hort leather entry is under the number 343. There is also the rhyme law is indicated, the Hort Leather wrote in gratitude for his recording.:

I have chosen the lines for my fruit,
because they serve to furnish crazy limbs ;
Drumb the arranging 'I have also been called:
To judge against one stands my mind and sense,
What is not right right: Oh, by advice and writing,
(Because the weapons do not agree with one another),
so many crazy members Vnserm Vatterlandt
I oppose a right peace.

His wife Catharina died on October 2, 1639.

Friedrich Hortleder died on June 5, 1640 at the age of 61 in Jena.

Works

• Actions and writings on the causes of the German war 1522 - 1545. - Jena, 1617 (vols. 1-2)
• The Roman Keyser and royal Mayesteten .... Actions and tenders: From the causes of the German war, Emperor Carl V, against the Schmalkaldische Bundesoberste, 2 volumes, folios, Gotha, Endter, 1645, with 62 coppers
• Tabular description of the Jena office

literature

• Ritter, M .: Hortleder as teacher of the dukes Johann Ernst and Friedrich von Sachsen-Weimar. - in: New Archive for Saxon History, 1.1880
• Franz Xaver von Wegele :  Hortleder, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 165-169.
• Herbert Koch: Zacharias Prueschenck of Lindenhofen. Family history supplements. In: Thüringer Fähnlein, monthly journals for the Central German homeland, 4th year. Issue 4, April 1935, pp. 253-254