Jerome von Dorne (city governor)

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Hieronymus von Dorne (born October 23, 1603 in Lübeck , † January 18, 1671 in Mölln ) was a German lawyer, traveler to the Orient and governor of Mölln.

Life

Hieronymus von Dorne came from the Lübeck merchant and councilor family Dorne and was the younger son of councilor Hermann von Dorne († 1607). The future mayor Hermann von Dorne was his older brother.

After visiting the Katharineum , he studied at the Universities of Paris and Padua . In 1628 he and Peter Heyling , who was also from Lübeck, belonged to a group of students under Hugo Grotius , who were inspired by him for the idea of ​​a Protestant mission in the Orient . In 1632 he was in Padua Praeses of the German nation and syndicus of the law faculty. In Venice in 1635 he became a knight of the Order of St. Mark together with Johann Marquard .

A little later he began his long, religiously motivated journey to the Orient. Via Turkey and Asia Minor traveled to Syria and Palestine and from there also visited Arabia and Egypt. In Jerusalem he was accepted as a knight in the order of knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . Not much has survived from his trip except for a letter from Aleppo from 1634 in which he reports that he met Peter Heyling in Jerusalem, which Johann Heinrich Michaelis used in his Heyling biography.

After his return he entered the service of Duke Adolf Friedrich I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , where he was appointed Privy Councilor and Captain of Neustadt . He then entered service in Brandenburg and became a government, chamber and consistorial councilor in Halberstadt .

Stadthauptmannhof in Mölln

In 1653 the Lübeck council appointed him city governor of the city ​​of Mölln, which was under Lübeck lien . His solemn entry into the city took place on January 24, 1654. At the end of the 1650s, on behalf of the Mecklenburg Duke Christian Ludwig I , he tried , with the help of Altona-based Portuguese ( Sephardim ), a silver mint in one of the Mecklenburg exclaves near Mölln to set up, which did not succeed.

He was married to Gertrud Brokes, the daughter of Mayor Otto Brokes . The marriage resulted in a son, Hermann Otto von Dorne, who later became a captain.

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeckische families from older times. Lübeck: Dittmersche Buchhandlung 1859, p. 29

Web links

Wikisource: How the captain moves out of Mölln (Lübsche Sage)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fehling: Ratslinie , No. 717.
  2. ^ Karl Rudolf Hagenbach : Lectures on the nature and history of the Reformation. Volume 4: Protestant Protestantism in its historical development; 2: From the Thirty Years' War to the beginning of the 18th century. Leipzig: Weidmann 1839, p. 527f.
  3. ^ Johann Heinrich Michaelis: Strange life course of Mr. Peter Heylings from Lübeck and his trip to Ethiopia. Hall 1724, p. 103
  4. ^ Hermann Kellenbenz : Sephardim on the lower Elbe. Their economic and political importance from the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1958 (quarterly for social and economic history: supplements; No. 40), p. 88
personal data
SURNAME Dorne, Hieronymus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, traveler to the Orient and governor of Mölln
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1671
Place of death Mölln