Joachim Lothar Carstens

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Joachim Lothar Carstens (born January 20, 1655 in Lübeck ; † October 15, 1727 there ) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Joachim Lothar Carstens was the son of Lübeck councilor Joachim Friedrich Carstens . He studied law at the Universities of Rostock, Königsberg and Frankfurt / Oder. After a grand tour to Italy in 1691, he became council secretary in Lübeck in 1694 and protonotary in 1701 . In 1715 he was elected to the city council and in 1722 its mayor. He was also head of the St. Petrikirche . His coat of arms was on the prospect of the organ of this church, which was renovated in 1725. He was buried in the Marienkirche in Lübeck . The rector of the Katharineum Johann Henrich von Seelen gave the funeral speech for him. In the year after his death, his younger brother, the businessman Nikolaus Carstens, was elected to the council.

He lived in the house at Johannisstrasse 20 .

For his wedding to Anna Catharina Leopold in 1695, Dietrich Buxtehude composed the wedding cantata Trionfo festivo (BuxWV 117).

literature

  • Johann Henrich von Seelen : Exequias tristes funeri ... domini Joachimi Lotharii Carstens ... consulis ... indicit ... Jo. Henr. a souls ... rect. , Lübeck 1727
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library
  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Lübeck 1859, p. 22
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 842
  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council clerks until the constitutional amendment of 1851 in: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 155/156

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Kerala J. Snyder : Dieterich Buxtehude: organist in Lübeck. 2nd revised and expanded edition: University of Rochester Press, Rochester NY 2007, ISBN 978-1-58046-253-2 , p. XXIV; Digitized copy of a 19th century copy in the city ​​library (Lübeck)
personal data
SURNAME Carstens, Joachim Lothar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carstens, Joachim Lüder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1727
Place of death Lübeck