Jakob Ludwig Beuther

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Jakob Ludwig Beuther (born August 18, 1573 in Strasbourg ; † 1623 ) was a Palatinate administrative officer and genealogist .

Life

Born the son of the Strasbourg scholar Michael Beuther , he came to Zweibrücken with his mother and his eldest brother Michael Philipp Beuther after his death . His brother had taken up the position of deacon there in 1589 . In Zweibrücken he was first bibliographer in the ducal court service. From 1591 he was the personal and valet of the ducal princes Johannes and Friedrich Casimir . In 1595 he was a law student in Strasbourg, in 1601 a librarian, paper administrator and legal clerk at the highest court in Zweibrücken. In the same year he married Margarethe Katharina Koch, daughter of the land clerk Henrich Koch and granddaughter of the former general superintendent Kunemann Flinsbach . In 1605 he was the land clerk of the Oberamt Neukastel in Bergzabern . He died in 1623.

In addition to his duties as an administrative officer, he worked scientifically. After minor work in 1595, he published his first major work on the genealogy of the Zweibrücker Wittelsbach family in 1616 . The plant treats to celebrate the birth of Crown Prince Friedrich in German the genealogy of the ruling family of Rupert of the Rhine up to John II. , Together with a list of all 1616 surviving Palatine and Pfalzgräfinnen and family trees, as well as in Latin using a manuscript of Trithemius the "Descent of the Count Palatine near Rhine in a continuous row from the old Trojan kings for more than 2050 years ".

plant

  • Disputatio de pacto unionis ... (with Michael Philipp Beuther). Diss., Strasbourg: Antonius Bertram 1595. Online at BSB
  • Mourning poem for the death of Count Johann Caspar von Wied. Contribution in: Michael Philipp Beuther: Christian funeral sermon ... In response to the desire of the Wolgebornen Mr. Mr. Iohann Casimir, Graven zů Wyd Mr. zů Runckel vñ Eisenburg , Zweibrücken: Josias Rihel d. J., 1595
  • Narration ... like the principality of Zweybrücken from Anno Christi 1410. bit vff ... 1616. was ruled ...; Darbey a list of all Pfaltzgraven vnd Pfaltzgrävin etc. still alive today , s. l. 1616. Online at BSB
  • Demonstration: familiam comit. Palatinorum Rheni ... ex stirpe Caroli Magni ... promanare , s. l. 1616. Online at BSB
  • Historia Cometarum , Neustadt ad Hardt: Henrich Starck 1619. Online at BSB
  • Diarium Palatinum . Manuscript, created 1618. Bibliotheca Bipontina , manuscript 13 B, 205 sheets, contains genealogical data of the Palatinate Wittelsbach family

literature

Otto Jung: Michael Philipp Beuther, General Superintendent of the Duchy of Zweibrücken . Publications of the Association for Palatinate Church History, Volume V, 1954, pp. 69–71

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On August 3, 1623 he is still a guest at the Lord's Supper; on December 25, 1623 his wife is already widowed. (Extract from Drumm's Zweibrücken civil servants' file)
  2. ^ Marriage on May 5, 1601 in Zweibrücken, Reformed Church Book Zweibrücken 0/5, No. 2694
personal data
SURNAME Beuther, Jakob Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palatine administrative officer and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1573
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH between August 3, 1623 and December 25, 1623