Jakob von Graviseth

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Jakob von Graviseth (* 1598 in Heidelberg ; † January 25, 1658 in Bern ) was Mr. von Liebegg near Gränichen and since 1626 a citizen of Bern. As the alleged godson of the French diplomat Jacques Bongars , he inherited his valuable library.

Life

Jakob of Graviseth was the son of Renatus (Reinhard) Graviseth (* 1560 † before 1633), one of Lorraine derived Huguenot bankers, and his wife Maria Tixier (* 1566; † 1641). He went to school in Heidelberg and had lived at Liebegg Castle, which his father had acquired, from around 1615. In 1618 he received a letter of nobility from Emperor Matthias . In 1624 he married Salome von Erlach (* 1604, † 1636), a daughter of the Bernese mayor Franz Ludwig von Erlach , with whom he had four sons and two daughters. In 1626 he received the Bernese citizen law . He succeeded his father in the possession of the Liebegg estate and became a member of the Grand Council in 1632. After the death of his first wife, he married Franzisca von Praroman († 1665) in July 1637 and moved to Solothurn . A daughter emerged from this connection. From 1646 Graviseth held the office of Bernese governor of Oron for six years. He died on January 25, 1658 at the age of about 60.

Graviseth maintained contacts with numerous scholars, writers and painters. Ornithology was one of his areas of interest . In 1632 he donated his book collection, some of which were very rare, and some 500 manuscripts and 3,000 prints, which he had inherited from Jacques Bongars, to the Bern City Library. He probably also translated a satirical travelogue probably written in Latin by Hans Franz Veiras (* 1576/77; † 1672) into Swiss German ; this transmission appeared immediately after Graviseth's death ( Heutelia, that is the description of a rift, so two exiles done by Heuteliam… , 1658). Graviseth, who had met Veiras in Strasbourg in his youth , had been taken to be the author of the satire himself. The content of the Heutelia ( anagrammatically formed from Heluetia , i.e. Helvetia) is the description of a journey through Switzerland from Schaffhausen via Zurich , Bern to Geneva , in which the conditions of the Swiss cantons at the time, abuses in state life, filing justice and confessional difficulties with great freedom and strong humor are scourged from a strictly aristocratic standpoint. The Catholic Church is particularly attacked. At the time of its publication, this satire caused a lot of dust.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jakob Graviseth , in the Historisches Familienlexikon der Schweiz .
  2. ↑ Rosmarie Zeller: Veiras, Hans Franz. In: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Graviseth, Jakob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Liebegg Castle, citizen of Bern
DATE OF BIRTH 1598
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1658
Place of death Bern