Johann Friedrich Chemnitz

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Johann Friedrich Chemnitz , in the literature sometimes wrongly from Chemnitz (born June 17, 1611 in Stettin , † December 11, 1686 in Parchim ), was a lawyer , Mecklenburg historian and archivist .

Life

Johann Friedrich Chemnitz was the son of the legal scholar and Pomeranian Chancellor Martin Chemnitz (1561–1627). He studied at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt and the University of Rostock . In 1636 he traveled to the Netherlands and England . For several years from 1637 he was court master of the Baron von Degenfeld in France .

From 1639 he lived in Schleswig . In 1642 he was appointed princely archivist in Schwerin . In 1648 he became secretary to the Duchess Magdalena Sibylla von Holstein-Gottorp . After their wedding to Gustav Adolf von Mecklenburg-Güstrow , he was appointed office secretary and archivist in Güstrow . In 1667 he was appointed protonotary and secretary at the regional and court court in Parchim.

He left an extensive Mecklenburg “Chronicon Megapolense”, which includes a genealogy of the Mecklenburg Princely House.

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  1. In 1648 his brother, Bogislaw Philipp Chemnitz († 1664), royal Swedish councilor and historiographer of Queen Christine, was raised to the Swedish nobility . - Cf. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Vol. 2. Leipzig, 1860. p. 260.
  2. See the entries of the matriculations of Johann Friedrich Chemnitz in the Rostock matriculation portal