Kilian Stisser

Coat of arms of the Chancellor Chilian Stisser, Halle around 1610

Kilian Stisser (born March 23, 1562 in Quedlinburg , † January 9, 1620 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German lawyer , secret councilor and chancellor of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg .

Life

Even under Kilian (Chilian) Stisser's ancestors there were high-ranking lawyers who were early supporters of the Reformation. He himself was born in 1562 as a son of Balthasar Stisser (1526–1583), Chancellor of the Counts of Mansfeld , and Anna Goldstein (1532–1563), daughter of the lawyer Kilian Goldstein . He attended the Ilfeld school and enrolled on May 1, 1582 at the University of Helmstedt as “Quedlinburgensis” and on January 14, 1585 at the University of Wittenberg as “Isslebiensis”. On October 4, 1591 he received his doctorate in both rights in Helmstedt. In the same year he became Chancellor of Count Bruno Mansfeld . In 1592 he became a citizen of the city of Halle, in 1594 city syndic .

Marktschlößchen in Halle

In 1598 Stisser moved from the city to the court and initially served as councilor and vice-chancellor of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, which was ruled by the Magdeburg cathedral chapter until 1608 , since Christian Wilhelm von Brandenburg was still underage as the postulated archbishop. On January 17, 1602, Stisser was raised to the imperial aristocracy by Emperor Rudolf II as "archdiocese councilor and vice-chancellor" in Prague . In 1603 he was appointed chancellor of the archbishopric.

In the same year he bought the building complex Domplatz 1 / Flutgasse 1 as a residential and representative house, which u. a. had an "audience room". His career brought some wealth with it. In the meantime he owned the Marktschlösschen , at least three other smaller houses in Halle and a house in Magdeburg, where he often stayed for business reasons. He also acquired the Nietleben and Neukirchen estates not far from Halle.

family

In Helmstedt in 1589, Stisser married the bookseller's daughter Margarethe Heil (1561–1630). The couple had 16 children, ten of whom survived their father. Due to the imminent capture of the city of Halle by the imperial troops of Wallenstein , the Stisser family fled to Saxony for a few years as part of the Protestant administrator Christian Wilhelm in 1625.

His second eldest son Bruno Stisser (1592–1646) became a legal scholar, one of his sons was the Lutheran theologian and teacher Wolfgang Melchior Stisser (1632–1709). The eldest daughter Anna Margaretha (1594–1629) married Arnold Engelbrecht . Another son Ernst Stisser (1595–1636) became professor of theology in Helmstedt and father-in-law of Christoph Schrader . The grandson Martin Chilian Stisser (1635–1707), Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Grubenhagen and in the Harz region, came from the sixth son Johann Friedrich Stisser (1605–1642), consistorial councilor in Hanover. A great-grandson was August Stisser (1671–1741), Lutheran theologian and general superintendent in Braunschweig.

Epitaph in Halle

Grave slab of Kilian Stisser

On the north gallery of the Halle cathedral , a monumental, over five meter high slope epitaph made of sandstone and alabaster reminds of the lawyer. It is attributed to the workshop of the Magdeburg sculptor Christoph Dehne . The widow and her children were the benefactors. The execution is to be scheduled around 1620/21.

The family crypt of Schwibbogen No. 66 on Halle's Stadtgottesacker , to which a tombstone with a full-length representation of the deceased belonged, was destroyed in 1945 by the effects of the war. Only the reconstructed coat of arms stone now refers to the family's former hereditary burial.

Web links

• Entry via Stisser, Kilian in Consortium of European Research Libraries
• Stisser, Kilian in the German biography
• Kilian Stisser - Chancellor of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and citizen of Halle on kulturfalter.de