Levin from Donop

Levin von Donop (* 1567 in Celle ; † 1641 in Kassel ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Donop is the son of Grand Bailiff zu Celle Gabriel von Donop and his wife Margarethe von Oberg . His sister Sophia von Donop later married Heinrich von Oeynhausen , with whom he was later in the fruit-bearing society.

At the age of 33, in 1599, Donop was elected to the Law Faculty of the University of Padua as the Council of the German Nation .

At home, Donop's career led through the Hessian-Kassel secret council to the office of Drosten zu Zierenberg . A few years later he was appointed to the Count's Lippe Privy Council and appointed to Landdrosten.

At the age of 39, Donop married Luise Magdalena von Haxthausen on March 10, 1606 . When his wife died on August 16, 1622, he kept the prescribed year of mourning and in 1623 married his wife's sister, Anna Maria von Haxthausen . With Tönnies Wulf von Haxthausen , his brother-in-law, he was later accepted as a member of the Fruit Bringing Society by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen .

The prince gave Donop the company name of Steurende and the motto of melancholy . As an emblem he was the scurvy grass ( Cochlearia officinalis L. ) intended for. Donop's entry can be found in the Köthen Society Book of the Fruitful Society under no.130.

Levin von Donop died in Kassel in 1641 at the age of 74.

literature

• Wilhelm Gottlieb Levin von Donop: Des Obermarschall und Drosten Wilhelm Gottlieb Levin von Donop zu Lüdershofen, Maspe message from the family of Donop. Paderborn 1796 ( LLB Detmold )