Leonhard von Elver (Mayor, 1564)

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Leonhard von Elver (born July 24, 1564 in Lüneburg ; † December 28, 1631 ibid) was a German lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg.

Life

Leonhard (V.) von Elver came from a patrician family that can be traced back to Lüneburg in 1273. He was a son of the Lüneburg mayor of the same name, Leonhard von Elver . The Reichshofrat and imperial envoy Hieronymus Stephan von Elver was his half-brother. He studied law and was with his dissertation De fidejuss 1592 at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) for Doctor of Laws PhD. Elvers was initially a court advisor to the Elector of Brandenburg and then became a councilor in Küstrin , where he worked until 1593. In 1606 he became provost in Lüneburg, where he was elected mayor of this Hanseatic city in 1613. In 1626 he was appointed Imperial Count Palatinate ( Comes palatinus caesareus ). As a chronicler , he wrote the Elver Chronicle of Lüneburg from 1622 under the title Discursus Historico-Politicus de Statu Reipublicae Lüneburgensis , an important source for the first part of the Thirty Years War until shortly before his death. He was buried in St. Johannis .

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  • Discursus Historico-Politicus de Statu Reipublicae Lüneburgensis in 4 Partes divisus. (Ms., Ratsbücherei Lüneburg )
    1. Continet memorabilia a primordio Civitatis usq [ue] ad annum 1605.
    Pars II. From anno 1605 usq [ue] ad annum 1624.
    Pars III. From Anno 1624 usq [ue] ad Annum 1629.
    Pars IV. From Anno 1629 usq [ue] ad Annum 1631.

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  1. ↑ See the family table with Johan Henricus Büttner: Genealogiæ or Stam [m] - and sex registers of the noblest Lüneburg noble patrician families, some of which existed, some of which went out several and many years ago. Lüneburg 1704, p. 121  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.digibib.tu-bs.de  
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SURNAME Elver, Leonhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1631
Place of death Luneburg