Gerhard Schepeler

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Gerhard Schepeler (born July 22, 1615 in Nienburg / Weser ; † August 30, 1674 in Osnabrück ) was councilor and mayor of Osnabrück from 1647 to 1656.

Life

Gerhard Schepeler around 1648; Engraving after Anselm van Hulle , Rotterdam.

In 1647 he took part in the peace congress in Münster as envoy of the city of Osnabrück and at this time had close contacts with the poet and pastor Johann Rist in Wedel , with whom he was also related.

His father was the businessman and councilor Johann Diethmar Schepler, his mother Margaretha von Beckhausen. In 1622 the family moved to Hamburg. He studied law in Rostock , Groningen, Leyden and Utrecht, graduated as Dr. jur. on October 3, 1643 in Rostock. On December 9, 1643 he married Anna Grave in Hamburg, the daughter of the former mayor of Osnabrück who had emigrated to Hamburg, Dr. Christian Grave and Anna Schlaff, daughter of the mayor from Osnabrück.

In 1645 he moved with his wife and child to Osnabrück, two years later he became mayor, in 1650 then princely district administrator, in 1661 princely chancellery and government councilor and in 1662 received the title of "imperial count palatine". At that time he was also in the service of the first Protestant prince-bishop Ernst-August von Braunschweig Lüneburg .

He was the owner of the goods Bruning and Harderburg in the principality of Osnabrück and Gut Velpe in the county of Tecklenburg.

literature

  • Hermann Schröter: Dr. Gerhard Schepeler and his time . In: Communications of the Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück, No. 63 (1948) pp. 22–73
  • Hermann Schröter: Johann Rist and Gerhard Schepeler. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen, No. 66 (1956) pp. 241–244
  • Albert Eggers:  Schepeler, Gerhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 751 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry 1637 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Entry 1643 in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Schepeler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Osnabrück councilor and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienburg / Weser
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1674
Place of death Osnabrück