Hermann Mylius von Gnadenfeld

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Hermann Mylius von Gnadenfeld

Hermann Mylius von Gnadenfeld , b. Müller, (born November 10, 1603 in Berne , † November 1657 in Oldenburg ) was councilor and envoy of Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg .

Career

Hermann Mylius was the son of the master miller Ocko Müller, the owner of the Count's post mill in Berne. He attended the parish school in Berne and the grammar school in Hamburg and studied law at the universities of Helmstedt , Rostock and Leiden . After he was probably been working as a tour guide young nobleman few years, he joined in 1634 as an office secretary in the service of Count Anton Günther one. Mylius immediately gained the confidence of his sovereign, who soon entrusted him with numerous diplomatic tasks. This also included negotiations with the warring states in order to enforce Oldenburg neutrality during the Thirty Years' War and to repel the invasion of foreign troops. To this end, he met the Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna in Wismar in 1636 and worked alternately in the Netherlands and Sweden in the following years . In 1642 he was appointed to the council and in the same year took part in the Reichsdeputationstag in Frankfurt . In 1643 he traveled to Brussels and in 1644 during the negotiations in Brömsebro achieved the extension of the Swedish- Danish peace treaty to the county of Oldenburg .

From 1646 to 1648 he stayed in Osnabrück for a long time in order to enforce Oldenburg's claim to the Weser toll during the peace negotiations taking place there .

In October 1650 he was a participant in the Nuremberg Execution Day , where further negotiations on contentious issues arising from the Peace of Westphalia took place. Here he advised on the demobilization of the Swedish troops and on the question of war compensation, whereby he was able to achieve a considerable reduction in the cost share attributable to Oldenburg. In the summer of 1651 he was sent to London to enforce the recognition of Oldenburg neutrality in the First Anglo-Dutch War . Here he made the acquaintance of the poet and Secretary of Parliament John Milton , with whom he entered into correspondence. After successfully completing his mission, he returned to Oldenburg in March 1652.

Since the city of Bremen resisted the Oldenburg Weser tariff, Mylius was entrusted with the task of breaking this resistance. In August 1652 he managed to win the support of almost all electors on a tour , achieved the imposition of the imperial ban on the city and was able to receive the final submission of the Bremen in 1653 at the Reichstag in Regensburg in the so-called Regensburg settlement .

Count Anton Günther gave his successful diplomat the Gnadenfeld estate in the town of Seefeld , which today belongs to the municipality of Stadland , and acquired it from Emperor Ferdinand III in 1652 . his elevation to the nobility with the predicate "von Gnadenfeld". In 1656 Mylius was appointed as a member of the Privy Council, the central authority of the county.

family

Mylius married Katharina Mausolius (1613–1655) in 1637, the daughter of the count's rent master and lawyer Johann Mausolius († 1631/34).

Works

  • Carmen de infanticidio. Hamburg. 1622.
  • Short but thorough report, drawn from the Actis, of what was going on in the Hochgräflich Oldenburg Weser Customs case from the time of the Münster Peace Treaty to Easter 1653, with 85 appendices for general information. Regensburg. 1653.
  • Edited by Th. O. Mabbot: The Works of John Milton, Vol. XII and XIII. New York. 1936 and 1938 (Mylius' diary entries and correspondence with Milton).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Hermann Mylius' matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

personal data
SURNAME Gnadenfeld, Hermann Mylius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Hermann Mylius (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor and envoy of Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Berne
DATE OF DEATH November 1657
Place of death Oldenburg