Joachim Matthias Lütkens

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Epitaph for Joachim Matthias Lütkens

Joachim Matthias Lütkens (born April 26, 1713 - † November 25, 1780 in Lübeck ) was a Lübeck mayor in the second half of the 18th century.

Life

Lütkens was the son of a Lübeck brewer, so he did not come from one of the old families of the Lübeck Patriarchate. From 1732 he studied law at the universities of Wittenberg and Jena, from 1735 in Leipzig. In 1739 he dealt with mining in Freiberg and then went to Wetzlar to get to know the Reich Chamber of Commerce. He completed his studies in 1742 with a doctorate. iur. at the University of Rostock. He then practiced as a lawyer in his hometown of Lübeck, where he was elected to the council in 1761 and appointed mayor in 1777. The father of Johann Friedrich Albrecht August Meyer , Franz Jacob Theodor Meyer, wrote a poem on Lütkens for the election of mayor.

epitaph

His epitaph with a half-length portrait in the Lübeck Aegidienkirche at the northern church portal reminds of him; he was head of this parish in 1777/78. The epitaph also shows his family crest on a sarcophagus, allegories of wisdom and three putti. A Latin inscription praises his services in the expression of the time as an "extraordinary, highly valued, extremely legal man".

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, p. 523. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.903

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entries by Joachim Matthias Lütkens in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Poem to Mayor Lütkens by Franz Jacob Theodor Meyer (digitized online)
  3. ↑ Latin inscription text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen: Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 144 ff. ISBN 3795004756
personal data
SURNAME Lütkens, Joachim Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1713
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1780
Place of death Lübeck