Georg von Nißmitz

Georg von Nißmitz (born December 30, 1575 in Nebra ; † October 23, 1654 ibid) was a court master and lawyer from the Electorate of Saxony .

Life

Georg von Nißmitz was the son of Christoph von Nißmitz and his wife Blandina von Hoym . Friedrich von Nißmitz was his brother.

After Nißmitz had had his first tutoring from private tutors, at the age of ten he came to Heinrich von Bülow, a lawyer and governor of Merseburg , in 1585 for further studies . Between 1585 and 1587 Nismitz spent at the grammar school in Leipzig . On July 22, 1587 he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt . There he studied with his brother between 1587 and 1591. In that year he moved to Jena for a year .

After successfully completing his studies, Nißmitz went on his first cavalier tour in 1593 . The first stop was Frankfurt am Main , where he stayed for eight months. After a very short stay at the University of Marburg , he traveled to Geneva via Strasbourg and Basel in 1594 .

A year later he went to Italy , where he matriculated at the University of Siena . From there it went on through Croatia and Hungary . His return journey took him via Vienna and on July 23, 1595 he reached Nebra again.

But as early as 1596 he set out on a second cavalier tour. His journey through the States General took him via Prague to England. His return trip included a short tour of France and the Spanish Netherlands. From The Hague he then returned to Nebra via Jülich , Cologne and Leipzig . He arrived there on May 5, 1599.

In December 1600 Nißmitz was appointed court master of the later Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony . Between 1601 and 1602 he made a long trip to Italy with his pupil.

On November 4, 1605 he married Anna von Rochow, a daughter of the archbishopric Magdeburg governor.

In 1606 Nißmitz took over the office of Freyburg and the office of Eckartsberga as the electoral Saxon governor , which was very fitting, since his goods were located in these same districts. He held these offices for 26 years until 1632.

In September 1606, he was appointed assessor at the Oberhofgericht in Leipzig . On August 6, 1607 Nißmitz was appointed inspector of Schulpforta .

In 1629 Nißmitz was accepted into the Fruit-Bringing Society by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen . He gave this the company name of the runaway and the motto in the hemostasis . The tormentill root ( Potentilla erecta L. Raeuschel ) was assigned to Nismitz as an emblem . Nismitz's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no.189.

In March 1638 Nißmitz was finally promoted from assessor to court judge . In the same year he was appointed to the Electoral Saxon Council. When French-Weimar troops laid Nebra in ruins and occupied the castle in 1641, he and his family had to flee to the surrounding cities. In this difficult year he took over the office of tax collector from the Electoral Saxony in 1644.

It was not until 1648 that he was able to return to Nebra and resume his official duties in full. His wife died on October 5, 1649.

The fine arts have always been very important to Nißmitz, especially music. He repeatedly supported the Thomaskantorei with generous scholarships .

Georg von Nißmitz died at the age of 79 as a heir to Nebra, Birkigt and Weischütz . On the occasion of his burial on April 3, 1655, a funeral sermon was published in Leipzig by Henning Köhler.

Web links

• Funeral sermon to Georg von Nißmitz from 1654
• Matthias Bollmeyer: Georg von Nismitz (1575–1654) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .