Heinrich von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz

Heinrich von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz

Heinrich von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz (* August 23, 1599 ; † September 13, 1661 ) was the chief tax collector and state officer of the Schweidnitz estates and world traveler.

Life

Heinrich von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz came from the house of Riemberg of the Poser family . His parents were Georg von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz , who died early, and Margaretha von Keltsch (see discussion). He went to school in Schweidnitz , then he was a student at the Maria Magdalenen grammar school in Breslau . He then studied at the University of Marburg . After the beginning of the Thirty Years' War he returned to Schweidnitz, but in 1620 he began a journey to Venice , from where he drove on to Constantinople on November 14, 1620 . This was the beginning of his great journey that would take him to India and from which he did not return until six years later. After his return he initially devoted himself to the task of putting his home, which had been neglected by the war, in order.

Poser married the widow Katharina von Schnorbein and Weicherau née von Bock on June 26, 1629 , on Oberecke. After her death on June 30, 1632, he married Elisabeth von Lest from the Welkersdorf-Hohlstein family. The first marriage had the son Heinrich, the second had five daughters and three sons.

After his marriage he took on the role of chief tax collector. Later, the estates of the principalities of Schweidnitz and Jauer appointed him to their state estates , a task that he fulfilled to everyone's satisfaction until his death. He died on September 13, 1661 and was buried in the crypt of St. Elisabeth's Church in Breslau.

literature

• Friedrich Ratzel:  Poser, Heinrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 456-458.
• B. Gerlach: "Heinrich von Poser and Groß-Nedlitz life and death history" / which is the day book of his journey from Constantinople through Bulgarey / Armenia / Persia and India, placed next to his dreadful son Heinrich von Poser and Groß-Nedlitz auff Czechs / Nieder Körnitz / Obereck / intended principalities of royal men / and chief tax collector . Schweidnitz 1675.
• Oskar Pusch: The Silesian nobility from Poser, especially Poser and Groß Naedlitz , Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt ad Aisch 1957
• Gita Dharampal-Frick: Heinrich von Poser's Travelogue of the Deccan (1622) , in: Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society LXIII (1982), pp. 103-114.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz in the catalog of the German National Library