Johann Hertze († 1476)

Seal of Johann Hertze

Johann Hertze (* before 1420; † 1476) was a German legal scholar and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

Johann Hertze, son of a citizen of Lübeck, studied law in Rostock since 1420. From 1433 to 1435 Hertze was the administrator of Lübeck's interests at the Pope's court. As a master's degree he was in 1436 after the death of his predecessor Paulus Oldenborch on a legation trip in Kalmar council secretary as protonotary in Lübeck until his resignation in 1454. Hertze was councilor in Lübeck from 1460 to 1476. As a chronicler, he was the author of part of the Luebian Ratschronik (section up to 1469); The Latin " Chronica novella " by Hermann Korner served him as a template for the first time . Hertze is one of the co-founders of the Marientiden Chapel of the Marienkirche in Lübeck and has been a member of the patrician circle society in Lübeck since 1465 . He lived in the house at Königstrasse 4 in Lübeck.

The mayor of Lübeck, Johann Hertze, was his son.

Fonts

• Lübeck Ratschronik from 1401–1482, manuscript , formerly City Library (Lübeck) , signature: Lub. 2 (lost)

literature

• Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Lübeck 1859, p. 43
• Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851, in: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), pp. 130/131.
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line from the beginnings of the city to the present. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, ( Publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 7, 1), (Also: Unchanged reprint: ibid 1978, ISBN 3-7950-0500-0 ), No. 547.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Fehling, Ratslinie 1925, No. 547; Fehling saw the protonotary Hertze and the councilor as two different people; Friedrich Bruns corrects that.
3. ↑ Ratschronik, Lübecker in Repertorium Geschistorquellen des Deutschen Mittelalter , Fontium 9, 432