Johann Siricius

Johann Siricius (portrait of the epitaph destroyed in 1942)

Epitaph for Johann Siricius (1702) in St. Mary's Church, destroyed in 1942

Johann Siricius (* 1630 in Lübeck ; † May 4, 1696 ibid) was a lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Johann Siricius was born as the son of the pastor of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, Michael Siricius (1588–1648). His older brother Michael Siricius was a Mecklenburg councilor and professor of theology in Gießen and Rostock, his younger brother Christoph Siricius became council secretary in Lübeck after him.

He completed his law studies at the University of Rostock as a licentiate in law. As a lawyer, he succeeded Johann Melchior Rötlin, who had been dismissed in the dispute, as secretary of the Hanseatic office on Bryggen in Bergen in 1657 . In 1668 he became council secretary in Lübeck as a mountain driver and in 1669 councilor . In 1677 he was ambassador in Copenhagen to obtain the clearance of the Lübeck ships that had been confiscated at the outbreak of the Skåne War between Denmark and Sweden. In 1687 he was appointed one of Lübeck's mayors.

Siricius owned the house at Königstrasse 25 from 1672 until his death . He was married to Anna, geb. Gercken, widowed Prüß. His daughter Anna Magdalena first married Franz Bernhard Rodde and then, as a widow, the merchant Berend Schröder. In 1723 she donated the baroque altar of the St. Lorenz Church in Travemünde .

After his death in 1702 he received an epitaph in St. Mary's Church opposite the pulpit, which was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942 .

Individual evidence

↑ Registration of Johannes Sirckes / Siricius in the Rostock matriculation portal
↑ His grandfather was already a mountain driver and their elder husband (cf. the father's biography).
↑ Description and illustration by Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version), p. 370f, Latin inscription reproduced by Dittmer (lit.)

literature

Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 in ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), pp. 91–168.
Friedrich Bruns: The Secretaries of the German Office in Bergen , in: Det Hanseatiske Museums Skriften , Volume 13, Bergen 1939, p. 76 ff.
Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from older times. Lübeck: Dittmer 1859, p. 81
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.798

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Siricius in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by and about Johann Siricius in VD 17 .

personal data
SURNAME	Siricius, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	1630
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	May 4, 1696
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Registration of Johannes Sirckes / Siricius in the Rostock matriculation portal

[2] His grandfather was already a mountain driver and their elder husband (cf. the father's biography).

[3] Description and illustration by Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version), p. 370f, Latin inscription reproduced by Dittmer (lit.)