Johann Heugel (chief magistrate)

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Johann Heugel (* 1553 in Kassel ; † June 12, 1601 in St. Goar ) was a landgrave of Hesse-Kassel chamber master and councilor and, most recently, senior bailiff of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen .

Life

Heugel was born in Kassel as the son of the landgrave's court music director and composer Johann Heugel (approx. 1510–1585) and his wife Margerita († 1612). The father, who was already at an advanced age, gave his son a good education. Johann jun. studied at the University of Marburg - among other things with Justus Vultejus , a good friend of his father's - and obtained his diploma in 1573. He then entered the service of Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel .

In 1577 he was clerk in the chancellery , in 1578 chamber secretary, in 1589 chamber councilor and finally chamber master in 1594 under Landgrave Moritz . He often served as envoy to his sovereign . Towards the end of the year 1600 he was appointed senior magistrate of the Niedergrafschaft Katzenelnbogen belonging to Hessen-Kassel with official residence at Rheinfels Castle.

He died there in his first year in office. His grave plate made of red sandstone is in the collegiate church of St. Goar ; it shows in the recessed middle above the crest Heugels with crest and ceiling , including a scrollwork cartouche with achtzeiligem Bible quote.

Marriage and offspring

From 1578 Johann Heugel was married to Anna Bischoff (August 5, 1554 - January 3, 1610), daughter of the Felsberg pastor Martin Bischoff and his wife Ursula, whom he had met as a maid at the Kassel court. The couple had three sons and six daughters. After Heugel's death, his widow moved back to Kassel with the children and returned to court. His daughter Juliane married the Hessen-Kassel Privy Council and Comitial Envoy Sebastian Friedrich Zobel (1617–1671).

Footnotes

  1. ^ Susanne Kern: The inscriptions of the Evangelical Collegiate Church of St. Goar . (Inscriptions Mittelrhein-Hunsrück, issue 6, edited by the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, and the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz) Mainz, 2008, pp. 46–47

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SURNAME Heugel, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hesse-Kassel Chamber Master, Councilor and Senior Administrator of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen
DATE OF BIRTH 1553
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1601
Place of death St. Goar