Laurentius Finckelthaus
Laurentius Finckelthaus (born December 17, 1555 in Leipzig , † March 11, 1606 in Lübeck ) was a German neo-Latin poet lawyer and syndic of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .
Life
Finckeltaus was the son of the judge of the same name in Leipzig Lorenz Finckelthaus (1524-1580) and a half-brother of the Leipzig judge Sigismund Finckelthaus . He began studying law at the University of Leipzig , which he completed in 1572 with a bachelor's degree and in 1575 with a master's degree. In 1579 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , but was licentiate in Leipzig in 1580 and then undertook his grand tour to Italy. He received his doctorate in 1585 from the University of Jena .
As an assessor at the Schöppenstuhl in Leipzig , he was approached in 1596 about taking over the Lübeck Syndicate and invited to a performance in Lübeck. Filling this office had been difficult for the Lübeck council in previous years to succeed the Syndicus Hermann Warmboeke, who had risen to become mayor . In 1594, the committed Johann Conrad Varnbuler was not released by his employer, Duke Heinrich Julius, contrary to the agreements, and therefore did not start his service in Lübeck. The council had not come to an agreement with at least two other candidates. In this respect, Finckelthaus was initially committed to six years from the time of his arrival in Lübeck in March 1596 and then actually took up his office on St. John's Day 1596 and was accordingly taken under oath on July 8, 1596. During his term of office the Reiser unrest in Lübeck fell.
On March 1, 1603 Laurentius Finckeltaus was raised to Poeta Laureate by Emperor Rudolf II in Prague . His survey is significant as it is one of the few surveys of this Baroque period that has come down to the archives, so that John Flood reproduces the full text of the draft of his letter of appointment in the introduction to his work.
In 1603 he was the city's envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg and in 1604 in London to King James I of England because of the restitution of the confiscated Stalhof .
Finckelthaus was stabbed to death by his own servant on March 11, 1606 and buried in the Gallin Chapel of Lübeck's Marienkirche . According to Flood, there is no secondary literature on the poetic work of Finckelthaus. Martinus Nordanus became his successor as the first in-house counsel in Lübeck .
Works
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Commentatiuncula sive oratio de certitudine iurisprudentia, & causis mutationis legum ... cui acesserunt Poemata autoris eiusdem. Myliander, Rostock 1598, F 1079 in VD 16 .
urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00032629-3
literature
- Georg Heinrich Götze : Memoria D. Laurentii Finckelthusii. Lubecae 1723 ( urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 1-176138 digitized, ULB Halle )
- Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeckische families from older times . Dittmer, 1859, p. 33 ( books.google.de )
- Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 . In: ZVLGA , Volume 29 (1938), p. 103
- John Flood: Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook . Walter de Gruyter, 2006, p. 562 f. (English)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ After Leipzig Biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finckelthaus, Laurentius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet lawyer and Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1555 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1606 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |