Georg Sigmund Seld
Georg Sigmund Seld (born January 21, 1516 in Augsburg ; † May 26, 1565 in Vienna ) was a German lawyer and Vice Chancellor .
Life
Seld was born in 1516 as the son of Georg Seld from his fourth marriage to Priscilla Schaller. After leaving school, he studied law in Augsburg. Later he also studied in Ingolstadt, Padua, Bologna, Bourges and Paris. In Bologna he received his doctorate. iur. Seld was a humanist in succession to Erasmus of Rotterdam .
From 1547 he was in the imperial service and from around 1550 was Imperial Vice Chancellor under Charles V , Ferdinand I and Maximilian II.
At the time of Ferdinand I, he was his most important employee. Seld remained true to the Catholic faith. But he was also convinced of a far-reaching church reform. Seld led the Worms Religious Discussion in 1557 together with the Bishop of Naumburg Julius von Pflug . In 1558, in the dispute with Pope Pius IV , he prepared an expert opinion on the legality of the imperial proclamation, which was made without papal participation, and on the relationship between Pope and Emperor as a whole.
Seld was the best informed man at the imperial court. He exercised considerable influence on imperial and religious policy. Public statements by the emperor had been prepared or edited by him.
After Seld had become tired of office, he was released in 1563 from the duties of the Reich Vice Chancellor in honor. A short time after Maximilian II took over the government, Seld was brought back.
His descendants include the lawyer, writer and Prussian legation secretary in Cracow, Albert Freiherr von Seld (1799–1867) and the homeopath and tuberculosis doctor, who was persecuted by the National Socialists. Alexander von Seld.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. on Seld's biography Ferdinand I of the Residency Commission
literature
- August von Druffel: Seld, Georg Sigismund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 673-679.
- Friedrich Edelmayer : Mercenaries and pensioners. The network of Philip II in the Holy Roman Empire (= studies on the history and culture of the Iberian and Ibero-American countries. Volume 7). Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag et al., Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-486-56672-5 .
- Ernst Laubach: Seld, Georg Sigismund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 213-215 ( digitized version ).
- Walter Vogel: The Reich Vice Chancellor Georg Sigmund Seld, his life and work. M. Fischer, Leipzig 1933 (Leipzig, University, phil. Dissertation of December 18, 1933).
- Seld, George Siegmund. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 36, Leipzig 1743, column 1626-1628.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seld, Georg Sigmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and Reich Vice Chancellor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1516 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1565 |
| Place of death | Vienna |