Johann Heinrich Lorsbach

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Johann Heinrich Lorsbach (* 1620 ; † October 4 or May 10, 1697 ) was the mayor of Siegen.

Lorsbach came from a very respected Nassau-Orange family. He was a council member in Siegen, Stadtschöppe and long-time mayor of Siegen.

He was a Protestant and since 1641 (or 1649) married to Anna Kathrein geb. Kopffer (also Keyser); the marriage had four children. After training in law in Herborn, Marburg, Duisburg and Leiden, his son Hans Heinrich became the educator of the sons of the Russian ambassador in Haag, who later became the princely Nassau-Dillenburg secret judicial councilor and office director in Dillenburg .

Hans Heinrich Lorsbach's son was the scholar Georg Wilhelm Lorsbach .

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  • Annals of the Society for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research, Volume 13, Bechtold, 1874
  • Bulletin of the Herborn History Society, July 1988

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Entry on family.lorsbach.net (No. 344) , accessed on April 2, 2020
  2. German Gender Book, Volume 163, p. 214
  3. Entry on genealogieonline.nl , accessed on April 2, 2020
  4. Annals of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research, Volume 13, p. 19 , accessed on April 2, 2020
predecessor Office successor
Mayor of Siegen
in the 17th century