Johann Marquard

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Johann Marquard (born April 24, 1610 in Lübeck ; † August 11, 1668 there ) was mayor of Lübeck.

Career

As the son of the Livonian merchant Gotthard Marquard in Lübeck and Anna Lüdinghusen, daughter of the mayor Johann Lüdinghusen , Johann received a solid education and studied from 1629 to 1631 first in Jena , then in Leipzig , was expelled from the war and traveled to the Netherlands , on to France and finally to Italy , where on his 25th birthday, on April 24, 1635, he received the Order of St. Mark together with Hieronymus von Dorne for his special diplomatic skill in connection with a problematic oath for Protestant students at the Catholic University of Padua the Republic of Venice , which gave him the right to call himself a knight .

On September 21, 1636 he received his doctorate in Jena and then returned to his hometown. Marquard has been a member of the city council since 1640 and carried out numerous diplomatic missions in the service of Lübeck in the years that followed. He was also city judge, then from 1652 to 1657 and again from 1659 to 1665 treasurer. In 1645 he took part in the negotiations in the Peace of Brömsebro , in which Sweden and Denmark had come to an agreement after Sweden had occupied Holstein and Jutland . He then traveled to Stockholm as a representative of Lübeck for Queen Christina of Sweden to accede to the throne .

He worked on and systematized general and special commercial law and can be seen as one of the pioneers in this field.

On September 25, 1637 he married the daughter of the Lübeck syndic and cathedral provost Dr. Otto Tanck and Johanna Juliane Steuerungagel, Anna Rosina Tanck, who was born in Speyer around 1619 and who can be shown to have lived in Lübeck in 1685. Thirteen children were born from this marriage, but six of them died early or young. Two sons became lawyers: Otto Christoph became tribunal advocat and procurator at the Wismar tribunal and Gotthard Johann was appointed advocate and procurator at the Reichskammergericht in Wetzlar .

On February 24, 1663 Johann Marquard was elected mayor. He died five years later. His brother Gotthard Marquard also became mayor of Lübeck. His nephew, son of the mayor Gotthard, Gotthard Marquard (council secretary) became council secretary and died like his father in 1694, which occasionally leads to confusion.

In Lübeck today the Marquardstrasse and the Marquardplatz in the St. Lorenz district remind of him; a picture of him hangs in the doorway of the Lübeck town hall . His oak epitaph was originally in the Petrikirche and has been in the collection of the St. Anne's Museum since the 19th century . A portrait originally painted by Johann Zacharias Kneller for the Lübeck City Library is now in the mayor's gallery in Lübeck's town hall. A Lübeck council line laid out by Marquard is kept in the city ​​library .

In the Friedenssaal of the Osnabrück town hall there is a portrait of Marquard, to which a more recent brief with the title “Marchoard Mecklenburgischer Abgesigte” was added. It is not clear when and on whose behalf the painting came into the council chamber. It is also unclear why Marquard was kept as envoy.

literature

Tractatus politico-juridicus , 1662

Web links

Commons : Johann Marquard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tractatus politico-iuridicus de iure mercatorum et commersiorum singulari , 2 vols. Frankfurt am Main, 1662
  2. Friedrich Bruns : The older Lübschen advice lines. In: ZVLGA Volume 27 (1933), pp. 95 ff .; Signature: Ms. Lub. 4 ° No. 333
  3. Antjekathrin Grassmann: Marquardt Johann in the Internet portal "Westphalian History" (digitized version)