Johann Adolf (Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg)

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Johann Adolf von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg (born September 17, 1576 at Sonderburg Castle in Sønderborg ; † February 21, 1624 at Norburg Castle in Nordborg ) was Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg on the Baltic Sea island of Alsen .

Origin and family

He was the seventh child of Duke Johann II of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Duke Ernst III. from Braunschweig-Grubenhagen .

Johann Adolf got engaged to Maria Hedwig, daughter of Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pommern-Wolgast , on March 5, 1604 at Loitz Castle . But she died on April 16, 1606 before the marriage.

After his death, his younger brother Friedrich inherited the title and land.

Live and act

After his schooling with private tutors in Sønderborg, he received his further education from 1593 at the court of his uncle Duke Philip II of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (1533–1596) on the Katlenburg and Herzberg Castle . After the death of his uncle he returned to Sønderborg in 1596 and in the same year traveled with his parents to the coronation of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway in Copenhagen . In 1597 he made a study trip through Germany , Italy , Sicily and Malta with the Hamburg lawyer Bernhard Tegge . On this trip he stayed in Verona and Rome for a long time . In 1599 he also toured Holland , England and France with the Danish nobleman Heinrich Lange .

In 1600 his father sent him to Moritz von Orange to learn the war trade. Here he took part in the Battle of Nieuwpoort and in an attack against the besiegers of Ostend during the Eighty Years' War . In the same year he traveled via Norway and Sweden to Livonia, where he took part in the Polish-Swedish war in Swedish service . In 1601 he was appointed Swedish colonel and appointed governor of Livonia.

After Johann Adolf asked for his release from Swedish services in 1602, he entered the imperial service in 1603 and was deployed as a general under the Archdukes Maximilian and Matthias during the Long Turkish War in Royal Hungary .

In 1604 he returned to Northern Germany and stayed on several farms in the following years . When his father died in 1622, he inherited the area around the Norburg on the Baltic Sea island of Alsen and thus became the first Duke of Norburg. However, he died two years later on February 21, 1624 and was buried on May 5, 1624 in the castle church in Sønderborg.

literature

  • Dominicus Laurentii: "A Christian funeral sermon on the blessed farewell from this world ... Mr. Johans Adolphen, heir to Norway, ... who fell asleep on February 21st ... blissfully and gently" . Richels Erben, Rostock 1625, OCLC 312256867 .
  • Adam Heinrich Lackmann : “Introduction to the history of Schleswig-Holstein, namely the long-term government of the splendidly spread and still flourishing Oldenburg tribe, from certified historians, including partly unprinted documents up to the beginning of the 18th century. Year hundred ” . Second part. Theodor Christoph Felginer's widow, Hamburg 1733, OCLC 633508186 , p. 636–639 ( digitized from the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek [accessed on March 18, 2015]).
  • Johann Christian Gude: Report from the Sundewitt peninsula and the Glücksburg hereditary lands, together with a short historical message from the Fürstlich-Glücksburgschen house . Kortens Buchhandlung, Flensburg / Leipzig 1788, OCLC 257553236 , p. 146–147 ( digitized from Google Books [accessed March 18, 2015]).
  • Andreas Ludwig Jacob Michelsen , Jacob Asmussen : History of the princely north castle house . In: Archive for state and church history of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, Lauenburg and the neighboring states and cities . Second volume. Johann Friedrich Hammerich, Altona 1834, OCLC 224478268 , p. 433–436 ( digitized from the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek [accessed on March 18, 2015]).
  • Johann Adolf II, Duke of Holstein-Norburg . In: Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber , Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann (Hrsg.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order . Second section H-N. Twenty-first part. Johann (Infant von Castilien) - Johann-Boniten. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1842, OCLC 832328025 , p. 56 ( digitized from Google Books [accessed March 18, 2015]).

Web links

  • Family tree on Miroslav Marek's private page (accessed March 18, 2015).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scandinavians in Italy ( Memento of July 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the pages of the Accademia di Danimarca (here referred to as Hans Adolf).
  2. ↑ Dominicus Laurentii in the catalog of the German National Library (accessed on March 18, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Johann Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann Adolph; Johan Adolph; Hans Adolf; Johannes Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1576
PLACE OF BIRTH Sønderborg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1624
Place of death Nordborg