Johann Friedrich Faust of Aschaffenburg
Johann Friedrich Faust von Aschaffenburg (born August 5, 1569 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 15, 1621 in Niederkleen ) was a German mayor and chronicler.
Life
Johann Friedrich Faust von Aschaffenburg came from the Faust family (von Aschaffenburg) , which went back to Johannes Fust and rose to the Frankfurt patriciate in 1561 by marrying into the Alten Limpurg society .
He was a son of the lawyer Johann Faust (1525–1596) and his first wife, the patrician daughter Anna, born. Bromm. From 1584 he studied law at the University of Marburg , where he was awarded a Dr. jur. received his doctorate. After his return to Frankfurt he married Margaretha Jeckel in 1592. At this point he was already one of the richest men in Frankfurt. In 1601 he became a councilor and in 1607 a junior mayor.
In the civil unrest from 1612 ( Fettmilch uprising ) he vehemently and proudly defended the privileges of the patriciate. When it became known in 1613 that he was trying to thwart the emperor's confirmation of a compromise he had reached, the civil contract, he had to resign and leave Frankfurt. From May 1613 he lived in a kind of exile. At first he stayed in Darmstadt with his brother-in-law, Chancellor Pistorius, to whom he also owed the protection of the Landgrave of Hesse. When Pistorius' wife, his sister Juliane, died in 1617, he left Darmstadt. He now took up residence in Niederkleen between Butzbach and Wetzlar , near his other sister, Justine Strupp, who lived in Wetzlar. In 1619 he bought a house in Niederkleen and died there in 1621.
Johann Friedrich Faust wrote a number of Latin occasional poems, including a wedding poem ( Epithalamium ) in the form of a vase in 1587 , which Johann Spies printed.
In his exile he was mainly concerned with the publication of chronicles. In 1617 he published the Fasti Limburgenses (Limburg Chronicle) by Tilemann Elhen von Wolfhagen based on a now lost manuscript, then Hans Regkmann's Lübeck Chronicle and Weigand Gerstenberger's, known as Büddenbinder, Franckenberg Chronicle . Over a period of 25 years he put together his Collectaneen , a kind of slip box on the history of Frankfurt. For himself he wrote two Latin tombstones and one German.
Works
- Fasti Limpurgenses. That is: a well-described fragment of a chronicle of the city and the lords of Limpurg auff der wages: In it [n] of the same and surrounding rulers and cities Erbawung / stories / changes in morals / ... withering away the noble high sex ... [Heidelberg ]: Bird 1617
- Franckenbergisch Chronick and Zeit-Buch: Executed bit on the year of Christ / One thousand five hundred and five and twenty. [Heidelberg]: Birds 1619
- Lubeckische Chronick / That is / All the foremost history and Hendel / as it happened in the Imperial City of Lubeck / from the time of its first birth: Who was the mayor / and bishop at any time [et] c. [Heidelberg]: Vögelin, 1619 [published] 1620
literature
- KC Becker: The involvement of the Faust brothers from Aschaffenburg in the civil unrest. In: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art 2 (), pp. 114–154, esp. P. 120
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Faust von Aschaffenburg , Das Frankfurter Patriziat, accessed on April 11, 2019
- ^ Frank Baron: Faustus on Trial: The Origins of Johann Spies ' s' Historia 'in an Age of Witch Hunting. (= Early Modern Age 9) Tübingen: Niemeyer 2013 ISBN 9783110930061 , p. 44
- ^ Frank Baron: Faustus on Trial: The Origins of Johann Spies ' s' Historia 'in an Age of Witch Hunting. (= Early Modern Age 9) Tübingen: Niemeyer 2013 ISBN 9783110930061 , p. 44
- ↑ Preserved as a manuscript in the Institute for City History (Frankfurt am Main) , holdings S5 / 3: Der Statt Franckfurt and the Council of Things and Notabilia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faust of Aschaffenburg, Johann Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Faust, Johann Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mayor and chronicler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1569 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1621 |
| Place of death | Niederkleen |