Joachim Christoph Benckendorff
Joachim Christoph Benckendorff (born January 25, 1605 in Frankfurt (Oder) , Electorate of Brandenburg , † April 11, 1652 in Danzig , Poland-Lithuania ) was a lawyer , electoral Brandenburg councilor and diplomat .
Life
The father Martin Benckendorf was a law professor in Frankfurt (Oder), the mother Margaretha a daughter of the Brandenburg electoral prince Thomas Huebner and sister of the councilor Joachim Huebner .
Joachim Christoph Benckendorff enrolled at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in 1611 (1621?) And in Konigsberg in 1625 , where he obtained his doctorate in law in 1629. That year he made a long trip through Transylvania to Constantinople , where he took part in talks with the Patriarch Cyril and with the French, English and Dutch envoys.
In 1645 Benckendorff traveled on a secret mission to the Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna in order to negotiate a possible marriage between the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and the Swedish Queen Kristina in one of the last years of the Thirty Years' War . Since 1646 he was the Brandenburg resident in Danzig . He died there too.
Joachim Christoph Benckendorff was married to Maria, a daughter of the merchant Heinrich von Durschelen and Maria von Enden, since 1646. The two had the children
- Ernst Gottlieb Benckendorff
- Joachim Friedrich (von) Benkendorf (1705), Kurbrandenburg secret secretary and resident in Danzig
- Heinrich Siegfried Benckendorff
- Johann Christoph Benckendorff
- Martin Andreas van Benckendorff (1654–1724), commissioner of the small bank in Haarlem in the Netherlands
literature
- Christian Krollmann (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography. Volume 1. Koenigsberg 1941. pp. 45f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer: Benckendorf, Joachim Christian von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 314. (with confused first name)
- ^ De Nederlandsche Leeuw. 17th jaargang. 1899, p. 61
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Benckendorff, Joachim Christoph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benckendorff, Jochen Christoff (historical notation); Benckendorff, Joachim Christoffel (modern Dutch spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jurist and Brandenburg councilor and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1605 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Oder) , Electorate of Brandenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1652 |
| Place of death | Gdansk , Poland-Lithuania |