Johann Siegmund von Osterhausen

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Johann (Hans) Siegmund von Osterhausen (born April 20, 1613 in Gatterstädt ; † April 24, 1679 in Naumburg (Saale) ) was a German provost of the Naumburg bishopric , Princely Saxon Council, court judge at the court in Jena , inspector of the Pforta state school , Court lord and liege lord of the city of Osterfeld and owner of the manors Gatterstädt and Wogau.

Life

Family coat of arms of Johann Siegmund von Osterhausen

He came from the Thuringian noble family von Osterhausen and was the son of the Gatterstadt manor owner Melchior von Osterhausen and the Sybilla nee von Gleißenthal from the Broda house. The Electoral Saxon governor and cavalry captain Hans Georg von Osterhausen in Kreipitzsch, Rudelsburg, Gleina and Gatterstädt, captain of the offices of Weißenfels, Freyburg and Eckartsberga, who died in 1603 , was his grandfather, who was married to Catharina, born Bose from the Frankleben family. Hans von Osterhausen auf Gatterstädt and his wife Barbara von Kayn from the Zangenberg family were his great-grandparents.

Since his father died when Johann Siegmund von Osterhausen was only one year and 16 weeks old, he grew up as a half-orphan with his mother until he was 14 years old. Through the advice and mediation of his two guardians and cousins Johann Georg von Osterhausen in Oberlockwitz and Niederlockwitz, Reinhardtsgrimma and Nickern, court marshal of Electoral Saxony, also chief chamberlain and Bergrat, and Georg Sebastian von Osterhausen in Rudelsburg, Kreypitzsch and Gleina, inspector of the Pforta state school, he visited from July 1626 to 1632 the Pforta State School .

In July 1632, Hans Siegmund von Osterhausen enrolled at the University of Jena , where he studied for three years, including law. He then spent two years abroad to study before returning to the family estate in Gatterstädt near Querfurt in 1637 .

In February 1638, Hans Siegmund von Osterhausen received a major prebend at Naumburg Cathedral , which required permanent presence on site. In the same year, the Dukes of Saxony-Altenburg and Saxony-Weimar were appointed to the general court in Jena as an extra ordinary assessor.

In 1647 Hans Siegmund von Osterhausen was elected cathedral dean in Naumburg and in the same year he became inspector of the Pforta state school. Ultimately, he was elected Provost of the Cathedral in 1651. After his appointment as Ordinary Assessor, Hans Siegmund von Osterhausen was also appointed court judge in Jena in 1670.

The funeral sermon given by Pastor Johann Wagner from Osterfeld on the occasion of his burial in 1679 appeared in print at the court printer Caspar Forberger in Merseburg . In his honor, another funeral sermon was held on June 19, 1679 in Naumburg Cathedral by the cathedral preacher, Magister Johann Zader , which was also published by the court printer Caspar Forberger in Merseburg.

family

Hans Siegmund von Osterhausen was married twice. In 1652 he made a marriage with Maria Magdalena, born von Bellin from Münchenbernsdorf . However, this connection remained childless until their death in 1673.

In his second marriage, Hans Siegmund von Osterhausen was married to Frödecke Elisabeth born in 1675 from Zigeser from Wörlitz . This marriage also had no offspring.

Due to his childless death, his fiefdom fell to his fellow feudal brothers and nephews.

literature

  • Leopold Freiherrn von Ledebur: Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy ; 1855
  • New general German nobility lexicon , published in association with several historians. by Ernst Heinrich Kneschke; 1867
  • Leopold Nedopil: German nobility samples from the German Ordens-Central-Archive ; 1868

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/dms/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN680539549&DMDID=DMDLOG_0001
  2. ↑ Submissive devotion to living and dying Christians Under the Lord Christ's submission To their most noble honor and glory [...] Corpse Begängnüs Of [...] Mr. Hanns Siegmunds von Osterhausen Auf Gatterstädt [...] Which in the Lord blessed different on April 24th in the year of Christ 1679 , Merseburg, Forberger, 1679.
personal data
SURNAME Osterhausen, Johann Siegmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osterhausen, Hans Siegmund from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cathedral provost, councilor, court judge and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH Gatterstädt
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1679
Place of death Naumburg (Saale)