Hans Joachim von Grünthal

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Grave slab of Hans Joachim von Grünthal (1576–1639) and Dorothea von Laymingen (1575–1629) in the Tübingen collegiate church
Detail from the grave slab in the Tübingen collegiate church

Hans Joachim von Grünthal (born November 17, 1576 , † October 29, 1639 ) was councilor of Württemberg, chief steward of the Tübingen Collegium illustrious and chief bailiff in Tübingen.

Live and act

Hans Joachim (also Johann Joachim) came from the noble family Grienthal / Grünthal . He was the twenty-fifth and last child of his father Wolfgang von Grienthal and his second wife Ursula Kölnpöck. In 1599 Hans Joachim became court master of the dukes Philipp and Albert of Holstein in Tübingen . In 1600 he became councilor and colonel court master of Duke Johann Friederich von Württemberg and the Württemberg ambassador to the court of Emperor Rudolf II , Matthias and Ferdinand II. This made Hans Joachim in 1625 (with a diploma from July 4, 1625 in Neustadt) imperial palatinate and court counts (Comes palatinus).

In 1606 he became rector of the Collegium illustrious of Tübingen and implemented the idea of ​​a knight academy developed by his prince. He began a systematic advertising campaign for the training center by having brochures with a picture of the college and its new statutes distributed throughout the empire. These statutes showed a shift in the emphasis in the field of education from religious to chivalric objectives. Foreign languages ​​and rhetoric were given more weight, and imperial and feudal law were read in the legal lectures. Grünthal's reform proved successful.

family

Hans Joachim von Grünthal, Lord of Kremseck , Harteneck and Dußlingen in Swabia, was married to Dorothea Maria von Laymingen (1575–1629), the daughter of Erasmus von Laimingen , Lord in Neu-Laimingen, Lindach, Rottenegg and Degersbach, heir to the Hochstift Regensburg, heart. Württemb. Council, and Agnes von Plüming / Plieming. Dorothea was a lady-in-waiting at the ducal-Württemberg court. The six children all died young. The common tomb is still preserved in the Tübingen collegiate church . His son Wolf Erasmus, who died in 1636, is buried in the town church of Balingen .

literature

  • Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck : “ The praiseworthy gentlemen estates Deß Ertz-Herzogthumb Austria whether the Ennß, as: prelates, gentlemen, knights, and cities or genealogical and historical description, of the same arrival, founding, building and fortification , Wapen, shield, and helmets, your monasteries, lordships, castles, and cities “Volume 1, Passau 1727, pp. 201–220 digitized
  • Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Odelga: scene of the land-based Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood from the 11th century on, except for the present , Volume 3, Vienna 1800, pp. 416-428.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Württembergische Landesbibliothek: Family Sermons 5723, quoted in The Autograph Collection of the Stuttgart Konistorialdirektor Friedrich Wilhelm Frommann (1707–1787) . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1992
  2. ^ Humanistic poetry from Upper Austria: Poetry of the landed nobility
personal data
SURNAME Grünthal, Hans Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grünthal, Johann Joachim von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg council, chief steward and chief bailiff
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1576
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Kremsegg
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1639
Place of death uncertain: Tübingen