Jost Andreas von Randow

Jost Andreas von Randow (born April 3, 1580 in Loburg ; †?) Was Hofmann at the Anhalt court in Dessau and a member of the Fruit-Bringing Society .

Life

Coat of arms of JA von Randow in the Koethener society book (1619)

Jost Andreas von Randow (occasionally also Randau) comes from a noble family that originally came from the ore monastery of Magdeburg . He was the son of Caspar v. Randow from Loburg († 1610) and Elisabeth v. Barby from the house of Kalitz († 1618) and was born on Easter Sunday 1580. Jost Andreas remained unmarried and is mentioned in a document until 1623, but probably lived longer.

In 1619 Randow was accepted into the Fruit-Bringing Society founded in 1617 by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen . He chose the company name of the glue end and the motto Von Angehencktem Schmeiß , which he himself explains differently in the two versions shown below

Randow's emblem was a half-withered apple tree, the branches of which were partly overgrown with moss, pelted with crumbly birds, carrying the medlar or kenster half hanging and half hanging . Randow's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under number 22. He was therefore one of the early members of the Society, which had 527 members at its height in 1650. She had set herself the goal of reforming and cultivating the German language and spoke out against both German “ brutalism ” and the exclusive claim of Latin .

Von Angehencktem Schmeiß, emblem 1		Von Angehencktem Schmeiß, emblem 2
The glue prepared by Misspelholtz and berries / He should be guided there by the bird droppings / Because he goes for it / generates the power in him / Drumb I Leimendt took this juice from me. How it almost seems now / as when I glue it with / And that this painting is not chic and rhymes here / So you know that with us I want to glue bravely / for the good only alone / the fruits bring a lot.         JAVR 1619.		THE glue / from the Misspelholtz ' and berries addition / So come to the trees from the bird throwing / Whenever he touches it / the branch does not become / And yet has taken this fruit of the glue: The name Gluing drumb I nam / and am committed To glue funny on / to use only and pious Of / who is sociable / to show / That with pleasure one can also bring fruit.         JAVR 1619.

literature

• Olof v. Randow: The Randows. A family story . Degener, Neustadt / Aisch 2001, ISBN 3-7686-5182-7 , ( German family archive 135/136).

Web links

• Website of the family v. Randow
• "Fruitful Society" - The German Academy of the 17th Century
• The first German language association. The Fruitful Society, by Brigitte Squarr
• Entry about Randow in New General German Adels Lexicon