Johann Christian von Boyneburg

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Johann Christian Freiherr von Boyneburg (also Boineburg) (born April 12, 1622 in Eisenach ; † December 8, 1672 in Mainz ) was an Electorate of Mainz statesman and diplomat.

Life

Johann Christian came from the Lower Hessian noble family Boyneburg , whose members were repeatedly in the Hessian, Thuringian and Mainz services. His father was the privy councilor of Saxony-Eisenach and Oberhofmarschall Johann Berthold von Boineburg-Lengsfeld († 1640), his mother Barbara Sibylla von Buttlar († 1624).

In 1648 he married Anna Christine († 1689), daughter of the Hessian court court president Kuno Quirin Schütz von Holzhausen and Maria Eva von Dorfelden. Nine children were born from this marriage. Philipp Wilhelm (1656–1717) was Reichshofrat and Mainz governor of Erfurt , Sophia Maria Anna (1652–1729) married the Electorate Mainz court marshal Melchior Friedrich von Schönborn and Charlotte († 1740) married the baron and imperial field marshal Johann Friedrich von Orsbeck, a nephew of the Archbishop of Trier Carl Caspar von der Leyen.

Johann Christian von Boyneburg was the Hessian envoy to the Swedish court, later a privy councilor and in 1650 first minister in the service of Elector Mainz.

In 1656 he converted to the Catholic Church. He was drawn to all the more important negotiation as including in the election of the emperor I. Leopold worked.

Suspected by the Jesuits, he was arrested in 1664 on the orders of the Elector; soon released, from then on he lived without office partly in Mainz, partly in Frankfurt and occupied himself with attempts to establish religious unity in Germany, as well as with the sciences.

He persuaded Leibniz to move to Frankfurt and to take up service in Mainz in 1670. Leibniz also became the teacher of his son Philipp Wilhelm. His correspondence with many scholars of his time has been published several times (most recently by Gruber, Hannover and Göttingen in 1715).

Most of its large library has been preserved and is now on loan from the Erfurt City and Regional Library in the care of the University of Erfurt .

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After receiving the news of his death, Gottfried Leibniz said the following about Boyneburg in a letter of March 26, 1673 to Johann Friedrich Herzog zu Braunschweig and Lüneburg :
“ Both the Church and the fatherland certainly suffered a great loss in this man, but E . Hochfürtsl. I know better than I can describe. "[Sic]

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SURNAME Boyneburg, Johann Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boineburg, Johann Christian Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Mainz diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1622
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1672
Place of death Mainz