Johann Köppen (lawyer, around 1612)

Johann Köppen (* soon after 1612; † 1682 ) was a Anhalt - Brandenburg court advisor .

Life

Köppen was born into a Protestant family soon after 1612 . The place of birth is unknown. He studied in Wittenberg in 1626 , at the Zerbst high school in 1630 and in Marburg from 1633 to 1636 . He received the Lic. Jur. and taught at the Gymnasium Zerbst. He was also the syndic of Zerbst . In 1643 he became a secret court and government councilor to Johann von Anhalt-Zerbst , where he succeeded Martinus Milagius as a general councilor in Anhalt after his death in 1657. Already in 1647 Köppen with the membership number 485 and the name “The Third” was accepted into the Fruit Bringing Society in Anhalt . On November 18, 1664, he became the Kurbrandenburg secret budget and judicial councilor or real secret council in the government of Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg with an annual salary of 800 thalers.

Around 1630, together with Rudolf Wendelin , he had translated the controversial creed of the Patriarch of Constantinople , Kyrillos I. Lukaris, from Latin into Greek . He was buried in Cölln on October 4, 1682 .

Web links

• "Johann Köppen (The Third)" in the member database of the Fruit Bringing Society (enter "Köppen" for name).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The king. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Secret State Council on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 363, no. 74.
2. ↑ Friedrich Ludwig Joseph Fischbach : Historical political, geographical, statistical and military contributions concerning the Royal Prussian and neighboring states. 2nd part, 2nd volume. Johann Friedrich Unger, Berlin 1783, p. 508, no. 53.