Heinrich Coelestin von Sternbach

Heinrich Coelestin von Sternbach , also Heinrich or Henricus Coelestinus , (baptized October 3, 1613 in Berlin , † April 16, 1679 in Lübeck ) was a German legal scholar, Chancellor of Swedish Pomerania and Vice-President at the Upper Tribunal Wismar .

Life

Henry Celestine was the second son of Christopher Celestine († 1630), kurbrandenburgisch - neumärkischer Governing Council and Lehnssekretär, and his wife Ursula Chemnitz. He attended the council school in Lüneburg and began to study law at the University of Wittenberg in 1633 . As a master's degree , he is said to have gone from there to the University of Frankfurt an der Oder , but his name was not found in the registers there. In 1640 he was enrolled as Magister Henricus Coelestinus at the University of Rostock . There he published several papers for the first time and was given the right to hold lectures and hold disputations.

In 1642 he was employed as a professor of law at the Stettin Pedagogy . He was born on August 28, 1643 to the University of Frankfurt an der Oder Doctor of Laws PhD . In 1648 he became a judge at the Szczecin court . On September 15, 1649 he was raised to the hereditary Swedish nobility with the addition of Sternbach to his name . In 1652 he was appointed assessor at the newly founded Upper Tribunal Wismar and in 1655 as assistant councilor. In the same year he took part in the campaign of the Swedish King Karl X. Gustav to Poland . In May 1656 he and Gotthard Welling were sent to the court of Prince Georg II Rákóczi in Transylvania . He was accompanied by his children's tutor, Conrad Jacob Hildebrandt, who later published a travelogue. From Weißenburg he went to the court camp in Poland in December 1656, where he probably stayed for a long time.

In 1658 he was appointed Swedish Chancellor of Pomerania and held this office for twelve years. He was appointed Burgrave of Malmö in 1670 and vice-president of the Wismar High Tribunal in 1671 as the successor to David Mevius . When the Danes conquered Wismar in 1675 , he moved to Lübeck, where he died in 1679. He was buried in a burial chapel of the Maria Magdalenenkirche (castle church) .

family

Heinrich Coelestinus married Sabine Schambach (* 1626) on October 31, 1643, daughter of the Szczecin councilor Johann Schambach (1581-1658). The marriage had four sons and four daughters. Several children died before their father. The son Dieterich was most recently a colonel in the Swedish service.

Fonts (selection)

• Dispitationum Fasciculus primus ad lib. I. Instit. Justin. Imperatoris De Jure personarum. Rhet, Stettin 1643.
• Disputatio juridica de libello famoso. Rhet, Stettin 1643 ( digitized version ).
• Progymnasma Fori. Rhet, Stettin 1645 ( digitized version ).
• De Arbitrio Armorum Dissertation. Goetsch, Stettin 1647 ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10631004-9 ).

literature

• Franz Babinger (Hrsg.): Conrad Jacob Hiltebrandt's threefold Swedish legation trip to Transylvania, the Ukraine and Constantinople (1656–1658). Brill, Leiden 1937, p. XXII ( digitized in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrollment of Heinrich Coelestin von Sternbach in the Rostock matriculation portal