Joachim Ernst Bläsendorf
Joachim Ernst Bläsendorf (also: Blesendorf , born September 12, 1640 in Zielenzig ; † September 22, 1677 near Stettin ) was an engineer officer in Brandenburg , general quartermaster of the army and parceler of Dorotheenstadt .
His father was Markus Bläsendorf, first in command of Crossen / Oder and later in office in Cottbus .
He studied in Leipzig and Frankfurt on the Oder . Around 1660 he worked with Memhardt on the construction of Neukölln and the Dorotheenstadt . He must have impressed the elector , who in 1666 gave him a travel grant of 400 thalers a year and sent him to France and Rome .
In Rome he learned from the mathematician Athanasius Kircher , but then went to the life guard of Pope Alexander VII as a common soldier , but continued to attend lectures in Rome. Despite the offer of the Pope and some cardinals to serve in their service, he returned to Prussia in 1668 after the Pope's death .
He came to Danzig in 1669 on the recommendation of the Elector at Johannes Hevelius . The elector appointed him chief engineer and chief director of civil, military and fortress construction in Brandenburg. He also taught the princes. He was later appointed Quartermaster General of the Army. He died on September 22, 1677 during the siege of Szczecin when he was shot in a trench. He was buried in the Peterskirche in Kölln on the Spree .
On July 7, 1674, he married Katharina Elisabeth von Peine, a daughter of the war commissioner Johann Friedrich von Peine in Halberstadt .
literature
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : Pantheon of the Prussian Army , Berlin 1835, p. 350
- Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel : Historical-critical news from deceased scholars and their writings , Köthen, p. 172f, no. 285
- Hermann Heckmann : Builders of the Baroque and Rococo in Brandenburg-Prussia , Berlin, 1998, p. 95
- New Historical Hand Lexicon, Volume 1, p. 215
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon , p. 530
- Robert Dohme : Blesendorf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 704.
Individual evidence
- ^ Emil Gottlieb Friedländer : The royal general war school and the higher military education system , p. 15.
- ↑ Georg Galland : Hohenzollern and Oranien , 1911, p. 113.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bläsendorf, Joachim Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blesendorf, Joachim Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurbrandenburg engineer officer, general quartermaster of the army |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1640 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Targeted |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1677 |
| Place of death | at the siege of Szczecin |