Johannes Francke (lawyer)

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Francke / Gloxin alliance coat of arms above the entrance to the Francke House, Querstraße 21 in Gotha

Johannes Francke (born February 27, 1625 in Lübeck , † April 30, 1670 in Gotha ) was a German lawyer. He worked as Syndicus in Lübeck and as Councilor in Gotha and was the father of August Hermann Francke .

Life

Johannes Francke was the son of the Lübeck baker Hans Francke († 1650) and his wife Elsabe († 1665), born in Heldra . Wessel, widow of the baker Steffen Döring. His father took over the Dörings bakery, which was located in the former brewery of the Katharinenkloster .

Johannes Francke attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and the Academic Gymnasium Danzig . He studied law at the University of Königsberg and at the University of Rostock , where he was respondent to a disputation chaired by Heinrich Rahne on February 28, 1644 . A study trip took him to the University of Leiden , France and the University of Basel . In Basel he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD.

At the end of 1648 he returned to Lübeck and began his legal practice. Among other things, he found his first clients on the Kiel envelope . He became the last syndic of the Ratzeburg cathedral chapter and represented its interests at the Nuremberg Execution Day and in the difficult transitional negotiations with Duke Adolf Friedrich I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , to whom the Ratzeburg bishopric had been awarded in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 as a secularized principality of Ratzeburg , but with the guarantee of the Lifetime rights of the current cathedral chapter. The chapter appealed against the aggressive seizure of the duke's rights to the Reichshofrat in Vienna and sent Francke there in 1651 without the latter being able to achieve much. Francke was also the syndic of the district estates of the Lower Saxony Imperial Circle , represented them at the Reichstag in Regensburg (1653) and advised various princely personalities, such as Sibylle Hedwig von Sachsen-Lauenburg in the early 1660s , who became the godmother of his son August Hermann Francke.

Since 1651 he was married to Anna (1634–1709), b. Gloxin, the younger daughter of the Lübeck Council Syndicate and later Mayor David Gloxin . The couple had nine children. From 1658 the family lived in part of David Gloxin's extensive property around his Palais Brömserhof .

In 1665 he advised Landgrave Wilhelm Christoph von Hessen-Homburg in advance of his marriage to Anna Elisabeth von Sachsen-Lauenburg . The landgrave appointed Francke to his counsel; but he probably did not move to his residence in Bingenheim .

Francke House at Querstraße 21 in Gotha

During the negotiations for Landgrave Wilhelm Christoph, Duke Ernst the Pious of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg met him. He appointed Johannes Francke to his judicial and court counselor in 1666. Francke moved with his family to Gotha and had the house built at Querstraße 21, but died in 1670 at the age of only 45.

Fonts

  • Discursus Iuridico-Politicus, De Legatis. Rostock: Kilius 1644 ( digitized version , Rostock University Library )
  • Disputatio Juridica Inauguralis De Stipulationibus. Basel: Decker 1648
  • Lessus In funere Viri Incomparabilis Henrici Rahnii, Icti & Prof. Publ. In Alma Rostochiana celeberrimi, ac facultatis in eadem Iuridicae Senioris, nec non Consistorii Ducalis Adsessoris gravissimi, Adfinis, Fautoris & amici sui desiderat summum in summum, Ad inopinatum lamum nuncium effusus, & Rostochium transmissus. Rostock: Kilius 1662 ( digitized version , Rostock University Library )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ However, matriculation is not recorded in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ^ Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : History of the Diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Asschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835 ( digitized version ), pp. 725, 729, 734, 738; the statement to be found in the older literature and in Antjekathrin Graßmann's statement that he was the syndic of the estates of the Principality of Ratzeburg makes no sense and must be based on confusion; the principality of Ratzeburg, which later belonged to Mecklenburg-Strelitz , had no estates as a former bishopric.
  3. ↑ Hach (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Francke, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1670
Place of death Gotha