Joachim from the mountains

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Joachim vom Berge (born March 23, 1526 in Herrndorf near Glogau , † March 8, 1602 in Glogau) was a diplomat and statesman.

Life

Career

Joachim von Berge was born as the son of the 79-year-old Hans von Berge auf Herrndorf (1446–1528) and Katharina von Braun auf Ottendorf (1486–1561). He went to the school in Goldberg under Valentin Potsendorf . He then studied at the University of Wittenberg in 1544 , went to the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1547 , returned to Wittenberg in 1547, visited the Moritz von Sachsen army camp near Magdeburg in 1550 and escaped from the plague in Wittenberg to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in 1552 . This was followed by trips to the Netherlands , England , Italy and France . In Vienna appointed Reichshofrat, he served Maximilian II. In diplomatic negotiations, in 1560 in Copenhagen . After his dismissal from civil service in 1571, he worked on his property.

Von Berge maintained friendly contact with the greats of his time. So with Philipp Melanchthon , Caspar Peucer , Johannes Bugenhagen , Johannes Sturm and others.

family

His marriage to Dorothea von Knobelsdorff auf Hirschfeldau († 1584), widow of Joachim von Berge auf Niebusch , in 1569 resulted in ten children who died early. Three years after the death of his first wife and six months after the death of his daughter Abigail, who died as the last of his children at the age of 15, he married Barbara von Knobelsdorff auf Ochelhermsdorff in 1587 , this second marriage remained childless. After his death, his widow married a Freiherr von Dohna .

estate

Joachim von Berges estates Herrndorf and Cladau inherited the three sons of Christoph von Berge auf Niederhernndorf . In his will he left a large sum in a foundation for the education of future generations. Only after a long struggle could the sum be put back into its actual use.

literature

  • Colmar Grünhagen :  Berge, Joachim vom . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 365 f.
  • Gustav C. Knod: German students in Bologna (1289–1562). Biographical index to the Acta natiois Germanicae universitatis Bononiensis. Publishing house R. v. Decker, G. Schenck, 1899
  • Karl Benjamin Gottlob Keller: Joachim vom Berge and his foundations. An important contribution to the history of Silesia ., Verlag Carl Heymann, Glogau and Leipzig 1834
  • Christoph Georg von Berge: Memoria Bergeriana, hoc est, Historia Biothanatographia, Magnifici & Generosi Viri, DN, Joachimi de Bergk, in Herrndorff & Claden, Tribus Imperatoribus, Semper Augustis. Ferdinando I. Maximiliano II. Rudolpho II. Á Consiliis Secretoribus Imper. , Glogau, 1611

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Benjamin Gottlob Keller: Joachim von Berge and his foundations. An important contribution to the history of Silesia ., Verlag Carl Heymann, Glogau and Leipzig 1834


personal data
SURNAME From the mountains, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berge, Joachim vom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1526
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrndorf near Glogau
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1602
Place of death Glogau