Hieronymus Frobenius

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Magister Hieronymus Frobenius (* 1580 in Arnstadt ; † October 31, 1666 there ) was a doctor and mayor of Arnstadt during and after the Thirty Years' War .

Life

In his youth he survived the plague years, during which his father was the only princely official in the city. Frobenius did his PhD after studying Philosophiae Magister , was accepted as a citizen of Arnstadt as city physicist on January 20, 1615 and quickly entered the city government. For decades he was repeatedly mayor of Arnstadt, alternately with his brother Johann Martin, sixteen times between 1618 and 1660. He and his brother had so proven themselves as mayors during the Thirty Years War that they were repeatedly elected against the rules. During his term of office, the city was saved from the Pappenheimers who wanted to plunder the city during the Thirty Years' War; a report on this event from 1633 was welded into the tower knob of the Jacob Tower, where it was found together with other documents during the 1991 restoration.

In his obituary it says: "On October 31st, M. Hieronymus Frobenius, who had been mayor and city ​​physician there for over 40 years, died in Arnstadt , a learned and otherwise well-to-do man, who, in his old age, experienced a lot of heartache from his unwary children and had to endure. He was 86 years old and was honestly buried to earth on Sunday the 21st after Trinity, November 4th. "

family

His sons Christoph Hieronymus and Ernst Georg became doctors like him. He himself was a son of the Arnstadt princely official Eustachius Frobenius from the Frobenius family of scholars and officials and was allegedly related to the early Basel book printers Johann Froben and Hieronymus Frobenius . His father's cousin, the publisher Georgius Ludovicus Frobenius in Hamburg, also named a son Hieronymus in 1600, alluding to the famous Basel relatives.

literature

  • Johann Christoph Olearius: Historia Arnstadiensis . Arnstadt 1701, p. 152ff. (Mention of Hieronymus Frobenius, 1618, and Johann Martin Frobenius, 1628)
  • Anton Freiherr von Froben: News about the von Froben family , Berlin 1874
  • Johann David Fiedler: Description of memorable things, so from 1636 Im Fürstl. Saxon. Amte Wachsenburg in Thuringia issued and contributed . printed in: Alt Arnstadt , issue 7/1927

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Unger: On the content of the Jacobsturm button
  2. ↑ Text in: Fiedler 1927

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personal data
SURNAME Frobenius, Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and politician, Mayor of Arnstadt
DATE OF BIRTH 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1666
Place of death Arnstadt