Henning Schlueter (Mint Master)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Henning Schlüter (* before 1625 in Goslar ; † 1672 in ibid.) Was a German mint master , coin wardein and coin cutter .

Life

Schlüter medal from 1626 on the death of Duke Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Silver thaler dated 1664 under Duke Georg Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
Medal from 1666 for Duke August von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

Henning Schlüter came from a Goslar family; his father or grandfather was mayor of Goslar from 1588 to 1609. Around 1600 Schlüter owned a property in the local Kornstrasse.

After Schlüter had learned the trade of mint, he first worked as a Saxon-Altenburg wardein to Saalfeld .

As the successor to Hans Laffers , Schlüter was appointed, according to the Wolfenbüttel Archives, in the middle of the Thirty Years' War by means of a rescript of August 10, 1625 "for a try and for a while" as the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg mint master for the Goslar and Zellerfeld mints . Obviously he began his activity first in 1625 in Zellerfeld and only in 1626 in Goslar.

Also in 1662 he married Dorothea Susanne Eckhart on February 20 of that year (November 27, 1607 to January 12, 1670).

Despite his original employment contract on probation, Schlüter worked as mint master at both mints until his death in 1672.

Schlüter's mint master's mark on the coins he minted usually forms the monogram from the letters HS , which were usually separated by two crossed keys.

Schlüter's successor was the communion mint master Julius Philipp Eisendrath .

literature

  • Wolfgang Sobotta: Henning Schlueter. Almost 50 years of mint master in Goslar. Looking back to the 17th century . In: Goslarer Bergkalender: for Goslar, Bad Harzburg, Harz area and Harz foreland , Goslar am Harz: Verlag Goslarsche Zeitung Krause, 1994

Web links

Commons : Henning Schlüter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Schlüter, Henning in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of August 25, 2015, last accessed on April 27, 2020
  2. ^ A b c d e Gustav Heyse : Contributions to the knowledge of the Harz Mountains, its history, literature and its coinage. A series of treatises , 2nd, very increased edition, published by L. Schnooks Buchhandlung, Aschersleben and Leipzig 1874, p. 96; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel mint master, coin wardein and coin cutter in Goslar and Zellerfeld
DATE OF BIRTH before 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar
DATE OF DEATH 1672
Place of death Goslar