Gotthard Arnold Isselhorst

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Gotthard Arnold Isselhorst (* 1682 in Lübeck ; † April 14, 1765 ibid) was a German lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Gotthard Arnold Isselhorst was born as the son of Lübeck protonotary Arnold Isselhorst († 1695). He studied law at the universities of Rostock and Jena from 1701–1704 . His subsequent Grand Tour went to Geneva , Paris and the Netherlands . He then first became secretary to the Danish privy councilor Thomas Balthasar von Jessen . In 1715 he entered the service of his hometown as council secretary and represented it in 1726 as envoy in Stockholm. In 1728 he was elected to the city council. During his term of office as councilor, the self-completion of the Lübeck council, forced by the citizens, fell in 1739 . Together with the councilor and later mayor August Simon Lindholtz , he was on a legation in Schleswig in 1734 , and in 1741 he represented the city in matters of the Möllner Pertinenzien in Hanover . In 1744 he was appointed one of the city's mayors by the council. His term of office was determined by bitter disputes among the city's civic colleges. The merchants' company and the shipping company in particular opposed the Skåne drivers who tried to expand their privileges.

Johann Daniel Overbeck gave the funeral speech for him. His son Johann Arnold Isselhorst also became mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in 1781.

Gotthard Isselhorst married Angel Catharina Leopold (1689–1737), a daughter of Aquiles Daniel Leopold the Elder, on March 19, 1716. Ä. (1651–1712), JUD (juris utriusque doctort = doctor of both rights), and from 1712 comes palatinus caesare (Hofpfalzgraf) and his wife Anna Margaretha geb. Ritter (1660–1733), daughter of the mayor Johann Ritter .

literature

  • Johann Dietrich Winckler: Messages from Lower Saxony famous people and families , Volume 2, 1769, p. 163 ff.
  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 49 ( digitized version )
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 858
  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 in ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), pp. 91–168.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rostock matriculation
  2. ↑ Fehling with reference to Johann Rudolph Becker , Complicated history of the kaiserl. and salvation. Roman Empire freyen Stadt Lübeck , Volume III, Lübeck 1805, p. 283, and Franz Siewert: Rigafahrer , p. 43
  3. ↑ Exequias Gotth. Arn. Isselhorstii Lubecensis Consuly primari ducendas indicturus tanti viri memoriam commendat , Lübeck 1765.
personal data
SURNAME Isselhorst, Gotthard Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1682
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1765
Place of death Lübeck