Heinrich von Witzleben

Heinrich von Witzleben (born November 1, 1509 ; † August 3, 1561 ) was the owner of the Wendelstein castle and office as well as the hereditary administrator of the Roßleben monastery school he founded .

Life

He came from the von Witzleben family . He was the son of Chancellor Dietrich von Witzleben and his wife Anna von Ende from the Rochsburg family . Witzleben was a doctor of both rights and held the title of Dr. jur. utr. He was the first knight in Thuringia to profess Protestantism. As early as 1549 he commissioned the scholar and poet Georg Fabricius (1516–1571) - a pupil of Melanchton and since 1546 rector of the new princely school St. Afra in Meissen - to set up a school based on the Meissen model in the Cistercian monastery Roßleben. This school began teaching under the then rector Isaac Faust in September 1554 as the Roßleben monastery school on the Unstrut . After a while the Saxon government took over supervision, but the hereditary administrator was always a member of the Witzleben family.

In 1560 he married Veronika von Kalb , a daughter of Wolf von Kalb from Kalbsrieth and Sidonia von Hacke . A few days before the birth of his son and heir, Wolf Dietrich (born August 28, 1561), he died. So his son was under a guardian until he came of age.

literature

• Gothaisches Adliges Taschenbuch, Gotha 1903, p. 927
• History of the von Witzleben family, Volume 2, Third Division. Foundation of the Roßleben monastery school and loss of Wendelstein, p.169f
• Tabulae genealogicae, or Derer von Adel Des Fürstenthums Sachsen-Gotha, stemmatographia alphabetica panel 4, p.270 family tables