Hieronymus Stephan von Elver

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Hieronymus Stephan von Elver (* 1584 in Lüneburg , † end of 1624 in Vienna ) was Reichshofrat, imperial envoy and writer.

Life

Hieronymus Stephan von Elver came from a patrician family that can be traced back to Lüneburg in 1273 . He was a son of the mayor of Lüneburg Leonhard von Elver . The Lüneburg mayor of the same name Leonhard von Elver was his half-brother.

He was initially active as a real councilor and privy councilor at the Kurbrandenburg court. In 1619 he converted from Lutheran to Roman Catholic and entered the service of Emperor Matthias , who immediately accepted him into the Imperial Court Council , to which he belonged until the end of his life. As a confidante and envoy of Emperor Ferdinand II , diplomatic missions of the Catholic party took him to Saxony in 1619 because of the uprising in Bohemia , in the course of which an agreement was reached between the Emperor and the Elector of Saxony in March 1620 in Mühlhausen to pledge the Lusatia led to Saxony. In the spring of 1620 he negotiated successfully with the Lower Saxony Empire , where he found the support of his half-brother Leonhard in Lüneburg for the goals of the imperial party. In the year of his death, he received confirmation of the status of the Imperial Knight for himself and his relatives; henceforth he and his family called themselves “von Elver” without reservation.

Fonts

  • Deliciae apodemicae seu select. discurs. ethico-politic. sylloge , Leipzig 1611
  • Deambulationes vernae quibus ruralis philosophia ad unguem discutitur: naturae matris divitiae et philosophiae deliciae , Frankfurt am Main 1620

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the family table with Johan Henricus Büttner: Genealogiæ or Stam [m] - and sex registers of the noblest Lüneburg noble patrician families, some of which existed, some of which went out several and many years ago. Lüneburg 1704, p. 121  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.digibib.tu-bs.de  
personal data
SURNAME Elver, Hieronymus Stephan von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elvern, Hieronymus Stephan von; Elverus, Hieronny from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reichshofrat, imperial envoy and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1584
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH 1624
Place of death Vienna