Hermann von Vechtelde
Hermann von Vechtelde , also von Vechtel , (* 1523 in Braunschweig ; † December 22, 1572 in Lübeck ) was a German legal scholar and later a syndicus , then mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Vechtelde was the son of the Mayor of Brunswick Tilman Vechtelde. From 1541 he studied law at the University of Wittenberg and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. He was initially imperial chamber assessor and professor of law at the University of Königsberg . From 1556 to 1559 he represented the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and the Ernestine duchies in the Upper Saxon Empire . In 1559 he became the councilor in Lübeck. In 1571 he was directly elected mayor of the city. He was married to Engel Carstens from Lübeck and lived at Königstraße 39 from 1567 .
He died of a stroke at a meeting of the council . A memorial plaque cut in alabaster with a Latin inscription, written by David Chyträus , from his epitaph , which was broken off in 1800 due to dilapidation, is on the north wall of the Marientidenkapelle of the Marienkirche . Fehling quotes from a contemporary source:
"En veler speak more eloquently, wiser, understand one."
His portrait in the mayor's gallery of the Lübeck town hall bears the slogan
"Hermann A. Vechtel VPD Amor. Cos. obiit. Anno 1572. "
- obituary
- Memoriae… D. Hermanni A Vechtelde…. [Mourning poems for Hermann von Vechtelde, Dr. jur., Mayor of Lübeck, † Dec. 22, 1572]. Lucius, Rostock 1574, OCLC 257899233 .
literature
- Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries up to the constitutional amendment of 1851. in: ZVLGA . Volume 29 (1938), p. 100 ff.
- Adolf Clasen : Unrecognized treasures. Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2003, pp. 38/39. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6 .
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, No. 690, OCLC 6779896 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Matriculation on April 29, 1541 as Hermannus Vechtelius
- ↑ Winfried Dotzauer: The German Imperial Circles (1383-1806): History and file edition. Stuttgart: Steiner 1998 ISBN 9783515071468 , p. 614
- ↑ Königstrasse 39. p. 16. on archiv.luebeck.de
- ^ Text with translation in A. Clasen, p. 38 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vechtelde, Hermann von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vechtel, Hermann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1523 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 1572 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |