Gebhard XXV. from Alvensleben
Gebhard XXV. von Alvensleben (* December 1618 , baptized January 6, 1619 at Beeskow Castle , † October 1, 1681 in Neugattersleben ) was Magdeburg's Privy Councilor and historian.
Life
Gebhard (XXV.) Von Alvensleben came from the Low German noble family von Alvensleben and was the son of the Brandenburg governor Gebhard XXIII. von Alvensleben (1584–1627) and his wife Christina von Dieskau (1589–1636). With his relative Hieronymus von Dieskau (1591–1641) he later became a member of the Fruitful Society .
When his father died in 1627, Alvensleben came to the ore monastery of Magdeburg , where Christian Gueintz supported him in 1632 . Soon he was receiving private lessons again, as his mother became court master of Countess Sophie zur Lippe , the second wife of Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen , at the court in Köthen .
Since the family was heavily in debt, Alvensleben could not afford any studies. After his mother's death on September 7, 1636, he lived for several years with his uncle Hans von Dieskau , who recommended him to Colonel Jobst Gerhard von Hertefeld in Küstrin in 1639 . This position meant that Alvensleben had the opportunity to study law privately with Joachim Müller, court attorney from the Kurbrandenburg region.
In 1643 Alvensleben and his cousin Christian Ernst von Alvensleben came to an agreement on their common inheritance. This gave him the material basis to set off on his cavalier tour with Matthias von Krosigk on January 2, 1644. It took him through the Netherlands to France, where he took language lessons at the University of Orléans . On the return journey he stayed at the University of Leiden for over a year , including a. to learn Spanish and Italian.
He returned home on May 24, 1646 and found his Neugattersleben Castle destroyed. The following year he became assistant to the administrator of Magdeburg , Duke August von Sachsen-Weißenfels . In the same year he was accepted into the Fruit Bringing Society by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen . The prince gave him the company name Der Ausjagende and the motto Burnt Damp . As an emblem he was Thamarinden ( Tamarindus indica L. ) intended for. Alvensleben's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under number 479. The rhyme law that he wrote on the occasion of his admission is also recorded there:
- The thamarind chases burnt moisture
away from our bodies: I was called
therefore also the chasing 'here: So let one hate, envy
and unchaste' vanity and all vices tear
from our heart bed 'through a strong dispute of the
spirit. Everyone has to work
so that the fruit of the spirit grows with power.
Vanity is always despised and suspected.
The Duke sworn in Alvensleben on August 1, 1649 as court and judicial councilor and sent him together with Johann Knull to the Nuremberg execution day . There he befriended Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and Bartholomäus von Wolfsberg , among others . Together with Michael König , he was in Vienna on behalf of the duke to receive the regalia in 1652 . Over the years, further diplomatic trips followed, for example to Upper Germany in 1654.
More important than his diplomatic work, however, was his work in the administration of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. In 1656 Duke August appointed him to the Privy Council and in 1659 made him head of the Giebichenstein and Moritzburg .
In 1668 Alvensleben withdrew from all offices and devoted himself only to his studies. In addition to his historical work, a handwritten collection of over 2,400 songs was found in his estate.
Alvensleben was married to Agnes von Rautenberg (1616–1686) from Rethmar Castle and had nine children with her - among them the later Hanoverian Minister Johann Friedrich II. Von Alvensleben (1657–1728) at Hundisburg Castle and the Hanoverian court councilor Karl August I. von Alvensleben (1661–1697).
The aforementioned Hans von Dieskau, Hieronymus von Dieskau, Christian Gueintz, Jobst von Hertefeld, Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and Barth von Wolfsberg were also members of the Fruit-Bringing Society.
Varia
It is largely thanks to the commitment and financial support of Gebhard (XXV.) Von Alvensleben that the Church of St. Petri in Brumby near Magdeburg, of which he was the patron of the church at the time, received outstanding interior fittings under Pastor Heinrich Hävecker to this day the church has become nationally recognized in terms of art history.
Most important works
- Topographia or general description of the primacy and archbishopric of Magdeburg. Magdeburg 1655.
- Stemmatographia Alvenslebiana or basic and detailed description ... of those of Alvensleben. Magdeburg 1656.
literature
- Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück: Historical news of the Alvensleben family and their goods. Third part. Berlin 1829, pp. 171-191.
- Max Dittmar: The two oldest Magdeburg topographies. Archive for regional and folklore of the province of Saxony. 1893, pp. 1-39.
- Georg Lorenz: Gebhard von Alvensleben's topography of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1655). Dissertation Halle-Wittenberg 1900, printed by Th. Wulfert, Schönebeck, 65 pp.
- Rochus von Liliencron : Alvensleben, Gebhard v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 376 f.
- Udo von Alvensleben: Alvensleben, Gebhard von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 232 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Klaus Conermann (Ed.): Fruitful society. The ore shrine opened to the fruitful society. The Koethener society book of Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Koethen. 3 volumes. Weinheim 1985.
- Peter-Michael Hahn: The chaos of war and official business. Distant noble worlds around the middle of the 17th century in the reflection of personal records. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1996 (contains on p. 22–56 the self-written curriculum vitae of Gebhard XXV. Von Alvensleben, on p. 57–70 comments on the curriculum vitae and on p. 7–21 a detailed commentary by the author).
- Gabriele Ball: Traces of the fruitful society in the Altmark, taking into account the "hunted" Gebhard von Alvensleben (1619–1681). In: 81st annual report of the Altmärkischer Verein für Vaterländische Geschichte zu Salzwedel eV Salzwedel 2011, pp. 87–107.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pages 32–35 in: Bernhard Pabst: Heinrich Hävecker and Johann Heinrich Hävecker “... that one has a little bit of a Biebel in such beautiful paintings and pictures ...” - The baroque village church of Brumby in the Schönebeck / Elbe district and the Parish family Hävecker - the historical description in the church consecration sermon 1671 ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bonn 2006, pdf document, 110 pages
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alvensleben, Gebhard XXV. from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | The Chased One (Name in Fruitful Society) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized January 6, 1619 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beeskow Castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1681 |
| Place of death | Neugattersleben |