Leonhard von Elver (councilor)

Letter from Leonhard von Elver to Joachim Jungius (1623)

Leonhard von Elver (* probably 1601 (?) In Lüneburg or Lübeck; † October 20, 1649 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

The lineage and dates of birth of Lübeck-based Leonhard von Elver have not yet been determined. He came from an old Lüneburg council family, which also spread to Lübeck, and is included in the family tree as Leonhard (VII.) Von Elver. It cannot be reconstructed whether and in what kind of relationship he was related to the Lüneburg patrician Hinrich Elvers, who lived in Lübeck's Johannisstrasse , died on March 26, 1614 at the age of 46 in Lübeck and was buried in Lübeck Cathedral , where an epitaph is attached reminds him. The family received confirmation of the imperial knighthood from the Reichshofrat Hieronymus Stephan von Elver in 1624 .

Leonhard von Elver enrolled in 1611 to study at the University of Rostock with the place of origin "Lübeck". After completing his studies, he worked in Lübeck and married a daughter of the councilor and member of the patrician circle society Heinrich Brömse .

In 1623 he served Joachim Jungius from Lübeck as a member of the first scientific society north of the Alps , the Societas ereunetica sive zetetica , founded by Joachim Jungius in 1622, and promoted his acceptance by sending 100 Reichstalers . This society, which existed only until around 1625, but was quite effective, consisted mainly of personalities with a connection to Lübeck and the vast majority of them were alumni of the University of Rostock.

Since the mid-1620s he was suspected of being part of a group that read, distributed and supported their authors, mystical and spiritualistic books. In particular, he is said to have been close to Jacob Böhme . The Lübeck Superintendent Nikolaus Hunnius , who saw the conventional order and Lutheran Orthodoxy threatened, organized a revival of the Ministry Tripolitanum in 1632 , an amalgamation of the clerical ministries of Lübeck, Hamburg and Lüneburg. At its meeting in Mölln in March 1633, the delegates agreed on a catalog of measures against the "new prophets, enthusiasts and fanaticos". According to the preacher's submissions to the council of the three cities, which were then followed by mandates for expulsion, the group included: Johann Wessel, Johann Tanckmar and Elver from Lübeck, Christoph Andreä Raselius , Joachim Morsius , Johann Staritius and others. Wessel and Tanckmar vowed recovery; Morsius left Lübeck. Apparently nothing is known about Elver's reaction. In any case, it was possible in 1640 that he was elected to the Lübeck council, of which he belonged until his death. The extent to which his election to the council is to be seen in connection with the disciplining of the Lübeck church and the exercise of the sovereign church regiment by the Lübeck council from 1635 under the leadership of Syndicus Otto Tanck has not yet been researched. In 1646 and 1647 Elver brokered the purchase of books from Hamburg and Lüneburg for the Lübeck city ​​library . It can be assumed that he was also involved in the purchase of the estate library from Joachim Morsius in 1648/49 for the city library.

It is possible that he had three sons named Leonhard, Heinrich and Dietrich, who enrolled together as brothers in 1642 to study in Rostock. His burial place or an epitaph have not survived in Lübeck.

literature

• Ludwig Heller : Nikolaus Hunnius: his life and work: a contribution to the history of the church in the seventeenth century, mostly based on handwritten sources , Rohden, Lübeck 1843 p. 78/79
• Robert Avé-Lallemant : The Dr. Joachim Jungius from Lübeck Correspondence: with his students and friends ... , Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1863, especially p. 30 ff.
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 764
• Heinrich Schneider : Joachim Morsius and his circle. On the intellectual history of the 17th century. Lübeck 1929
• Donald R. Dickson: The Tessera of Antilia: Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century , BRILL, 1998, p. 98

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Elver, Leonhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 74. He is sometimes confused with Leonhard von Elver (Mayor, 1564) in the literature.
2. ↑ 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.  
3. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 226. (Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ); Latin inscription text of the epitaph with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 90 ISBN 3795004756
4. ^ Entry 1611 in the Rostock matriculation portal
5. ^ Robert Avé-Lallemant : The Dr. Joachim Jungius from Lübeck Correspondence , p. 31 ff.
6. ^ Evidence of the individuals in Donald R. Dickson: The Tessera of Antilia , p. 97 ff
7. ↑ See also Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church History Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in nine centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1981 ISBN 3-7950-2500-1 , pp. 301f
8. ↑ The mention in Jacob Boehme's letter of January 24, 1624 to Joachim Morsius (in Epistolae Theosophicae. Vol. IX, 55.11; also in Schneider (Lit.), pp. 38–42) does not definitely refer to him, but possibly to Leonhard Elver from Lüneburg ; see. Leigh TI Penman: Jakob Boehme's Student and Mentor: the Liegnitz Physician Balthasar Walther. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann, Friedrich Vollhardt (ed.): Revelation and Episteme: On the European impact of Jakob Boehme in the 17th and 18th centuries. (Early Modern Age 173), p. 47–65, here p. 59 (or confusion with Penman?) Also Theodor Harmsen: Jacob Boehme's way into the world: on the history of the manuscript collection, translations and editions by Abraham Willemsz van Beyerland. (Pimander 16) Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan / Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog 2007 ISBN 978-3-7728-2446-3 , p. 462 apparently mixed both
9. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Raselius, Christoph Andreä . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 319-321.
10. ↑ Schneider (Lit.), pp. 118f. Note 60
11. ^ Entry (instead of all) Leonhard Elver 1642 in the Rostock matriculation portal
12. ↑ No entry in Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1100–1600). (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 40). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X . (see also: Univ., Diss., Kiel 1993)