Heinrich von Logau

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Heinrich von Logau (also Heinrich Freiherr von Logau and Olbersdorf ; Czech Jindřich z Logau ; † October 11, 1625 in Prague ) belonged to the Order of Malta . 1601-1607 he was Governor of directly to Bohemia belonging Glatz and 1621-1625 Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in Bohemia and Austria. In 1604 he was sent to Moscow as an imperial councilor with a diplomatic mission .

Life

Heinrich von Logau came from the Silesian noble family Logau . From 1586 he was enrolled at the University of Siena . It is not known when he joined the Order of the Knights of Malta, from which he was given several offices in Bohemia and Austria. I.a. he was Commander of the Coming in Troppau and Fürstenfeld in Styria . In 1596 Heinrich and his brother David von Logau, who had several properties in the County of Glatz, were appointed residents of Bohemia.

After the governor of the Glatz region, Melchior von Rechenberg , who was himself a Protestant, was reluctant to pursue the measures to re-catholicize the Glatz region in the imperial edict of July 10, 1600, he was deposed in 1601 and Heinrich von Logau was appointed his successor. He immediately endeavored to appoint Catholic clergymen to the royal patronage churches, although the entire country was almost entirely Protestant. Under his protection, the Corpus Christi procession was carried out in Glatz as early as 1601 . The affected cities and the free judges protested against these measures, the implementation of which the Jesuits had already been commissioned in 1597 .

In 1604 Heinrich von Logau was sent by Emperor Rudolf II with a diplomatic assignment to the Russian Grand Duke Boris Godunov , from whom he should again seek help from the Turks . He started his trip on April 27th from Glatz, on which more than 60 people accompanied him. It took eight weeks for the delegation to reach Narva via Frankfurt (Oder) and Stettin and only entered Moscow on July 25, 1604. Three days later Heinrich von Logau received the first audience at which he presented valuable gifts. Nevertheless, the audience was not very successful, as the Grand Duke complained that Rudolf II had denied him the title of emperor to which he was entitled. A second audience on August 5, 1604 was also unsatisfactory, as the Grand Duke was of the opinion that he had already given enough war aid. At the farewell audience on August 22nd, the Grand Duke was disappointed that no secret matters had been conveyed to him. He also stated that he was currently unable to provide any further aid to the war. Heinrich von Logau left Moscow on August 29 and arrived in Narva on September 7. There he received the news that the Swedish King Charles IX. wish to meet Logau for an interview in Stockholm. Although Logau refused the request, since he had no imperial mandate to do so, his ship is said to have been pushed to Sweden. In Stockholm, King Karl held talks with Logau about Livonia . Logau left Stockholm on October 12th and only reached Greifswald three weeks later , from where he returned to Prague with his delegation. There he was accepted into the gentry's class in 1605 .

Presumably under pressure from the Glatz estates, Heinrich von Logau was dismissed as governor of the County of Glatz in 1607. He was followed by the Lutheran Count Niklas von Gersdorff , who supported the Bohemian class uprising . Subsequently, Logau was entrusted with tasks again by his order. As Komtur der Kommende in Fürstenfeld in Styria, he had the damage done there, among other things, repaired during the Heiducken invasion of 1605. In 1620 he was appointed Grand Prior of the Order of St. John for Bohemia and Austria. Seat of the Grand Priory was the castle Strakonice in South Bohemia Strakonice .

literature

  • Hugo von Wiese: The fight for bald. From the history of the Counter Reformation in the county of Glatz (= writings of the Association for Reformation History . 54, ISSN  0171-2179 ). Association for the History of the Reformation, Halle 1896, ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich von Adelung : Critical-literary overview of travelers in Russia up to 1700, whose reports are known. Volume 2. Eggers et al., St. Petersburg et al. 1846, pp. 146–156.
  • Arno Herzig , Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : History of the Glatzer Land. DOBU-Verlag et al., Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-934632-12-2 , pp. 113-116.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Zonta: Silesian students at Italian universities. (PDF) A prosopographical study on the early modern history of education. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008 ; accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Commander of Troppau and Fürstenfeld
  3. ↑ Order of Malta
  4. ↑ Glatzer nobility
  5. ↑ See p. 170, footnote 4 with details of the original source
  6. ↑ See p. 170, footnote 4 with details of the original source
  7. ^ Entry about Fürstenfeld on Burgen-Austria
  8. ↑ Grand Prior (PDF; 685 kB)
  9. ↑ Strakonitz
personal data
SURNAME Logau, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henrich von Logow; Heinrich Log; Jindřich z Logau (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH before 1586
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1625
Place of death Prague