Lucas Luidtke

Lucas Luidtke (* after 1562 in Havelberg ; † before April 2, 1596 in Havelberg) was a German lawyer and canon at the cathedral monastery of Havelberg.

Seal of the Lüdke family (crane)

Descent, curriculum vitae, professional career

Luidtke was the third born son of Matthäus Ludecus and Anna Daniels, the daughter of a merchant in Perleberg. He was born in Havelberg after his father settled there in 1562 with his wife and first-born son, Matthäus Ludecus jun. had settled in order to achieve the status of a canonicus residence and to benefit from the benefices from his canonicals, which he had already obtained in 1554. After his father took over the office of dean in 1573, Lucas Luidtke was co-opted as studiosus iuuenis on December 3, 1580 at the suggestion of the chapter as the successor to the office and benefice of the deceased canon Joachim Tiedeke. The required fee was paid for this, but the oath that was also required for taking over the property and is only possible in Havelberg after the age of twenty has been postponed until after reaching the age of majority.

We don't know anything about Lucas's school education. However, there is evidence that in 1577 he was a pupil at the grammar school Johanneum Lüneburg together with Jacob Fabricius (the elder) and Lucas Lossius, the son of Lucas Lossius , the son of the vice-principal at the grammar school Johanneum Lüneburg . Some time before his studies in Frankfurt and his appointment as dean in Havelberg, his father had worked as secret secretary for the city of Lüneburg.

When and where Luidtke, who was named studiosus (pupil or student) when he was appointed candidate in 1580 , began his university studies is not known. According to the statutes of the Havelberg cathedral chapter reformed under the dean's office of his father from 1581, one of the requirements for a canonical was that the candidate had studied and moved to a famous university in Teutschen or Welsh countries. When and where Luidtke, who was referred to as studiosus (pupil or student) as early as 1580 , began his university studies is not known. But in the winter semester 1587/88 he was enrolled at the University of Rostock, where he defended the theses of a legal disputation on feudal law issues published the following year under Christoph Wendinus . At unspecified times before 1592, he married Catharina Hoffmeister, the granddaughter of Chancellor Johann Weinlob , and settled again in Havelberg, because on February 5, 1592 his son Germanus Luidtke , who later became mayor of Stendal , was born there. born.

Lucas Luidtke died at an unspecified time before April 2, 1596 after he had been accepted as a resident canon in Havelberg, as the funeral sermon of the cathedral preacher of Havelberg noted on his father, but was still "in his Carents year" and therefore not yet received the income from his benefice. According to the current statutes of 1581, this is to be understood in such a way that he asks for approval to settle as canonicus residens (or residentiam inchoans ) with a formal declaration of intent (intimation) to be made on the eve of the birth of Mary (i.e. on September 7th) after approval, he began to fulfill his presence and official duties, but had not yet completed the two or three-year waiting period during which his income would benefit the heirs of his predecessor and the cathedral chapter.

According to a later funeral sermon for his son Germanus from Stendal, Lucas Luidtke was also the owner of the Dompropstei of Havelberg and thus an office that was roughly equal to his father's deanery, but with a much higher income. According to contemporary Havelberger and other traditions, however, the Dompropstei was initially in the possession of Levin von der Schulenburg († October 20, 1587) from 1559 and after his death it passed to his eldest son Christoph due to an early secured entitlement to whom it was acquired The short-term dispute about the succession was confirmed by an electoral decision of June 27, 1588, and it kept it until his death in 1611.

family

Lucas Luidtke was married to Mrs. Catharina Hoffmeister. She was the granddaughter of the Chancellor Johann Weinlob (Johann Weinleben) of the Brandenburg Elector Joachim II.

His father-in-law Lucas Hoffmeister , born in Prenzlau, was a Brandenburg judge from 1552 and died in 1576.

From the marriage came Germanus Luidtke (1592–1672), who later became mayor of Stendal

After the death of her husband Lucas, Catharina married the mayor of Stendal Johann Saltzwedel († 1612), who had been widowed since 1598, and had 4 children with him. Johann Saltzwedel was the stepbrother of Margareta Saltzwedel († 1612), the wife of the Stendal mayor Bartholomäus Schönebeck (1548-1605), whose son Benedikt Schönebeck (1597-1665) became the grandfather of the future mayor of Stendal Christian Luidtke (1621-1668) . This was the grandson of Lucas Luidtke.

swell

• Adolph Friedrich Riedel (ed.), Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , main part I, volume 3, Berlin: Morin, 1843:
  • No. LXXXII: Statutes of the cathedral chapter in Havelberg, from the year 1581 (p. 169–195)
  • No. LXXXIV: Directory of awarding prebends by the cathedral chapter from the beginning of the 16th to the beginning of the 17th century (pp. 196–201)
  • No. LXXXV: Register of the canons who have come into the possession of Präbenden at Havelberg since 1542 (pp. 201–210)
• Bartholomäus Rheins, Christian funeral sermon Bey dem Begrebnüß deß Ehrwirdigen Ehrnvesten vnd Hochgelarten Mr. MATTHÆI Luidtkens , Jena: Christoph Lippold, 1508 ( online version by Florian Seiffert )
• Matthias Bugaeus, In the name of JESUS ​​/ (...) Bey Christian corpse-Begängniß Des (...) Highly famous Lord / Hn. GERMANI Luidtken (...), Stendal 1673

literature

• Siegfried Fornaçon, Matthäus Lüdtke (Ludecus) , in: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie 12 (1967), pp. 167–178, p. 168

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Rheins, Christian funeral sermon ... Matthaei Luidtkens (1608)
2. ↑ Riedel, No. LXXXV, p. 203 as of May 30, 1554
3. ↑ Riedel, No. LXXXV, p. 204 after the entry for August 31, 1559
4. ↑ ^{a b} Riedel, No. LXXXV, p. 206 on December 3, 1582
5. ↑ See Riedel, p. 50
6. ↑ Johann Melchior Kraft, a two-fold two-hundred-year jubilee memory, the first of which in a sermon given on the All Saints' Day in 1722 introduces the Reformation, so through God's blessing in 1522 first of all in these Hertzogthümern, Schleßwig and Holstein, by Hermanno Keys, was started in this city Husum, but the other a complete history of the Germanized by Blessed Luthero ... N. Testament: attached to this is I. A two-hundred-year-old Husum church and school history, II. A detailed Life description of the Weyland God-blessed General Superintendent Mr. M. Jacobi Fabricii, Senioris …, Hamburg 1713, p. 368, [1]
7. ↑ Riedel, No. LXXXII, § XII, p. 183
8. ^ So the online version of the University of Rostock, matriculation 1419-1945 , also (but with the year 1588) Fornaçon, p. 168, after the print edition of the Rostock matriculation
9. ↑ Dispvtatio X. De Ivdiciis Et Processv Fevdalivm Controversiarvm (...) in qua Præside Christophoro VVendino JVD Respondebit Lvcas Lvdecvs Hauelb [ergensis] , Rostock: Myliander, 1589; available in digitized form: [2] cf. on the other hand Fornaçon, according to which Luidtke acquired "the theological doctorate" (p. 168)
10. ↑ Riedel, No. LXXXV, pp. 207f. on April 2, 1596, cf. also No. LXXXIV, p. 198 of September 7, 1596
11. ↑ Cf. Riedel, p. 52 and the text of the statutes No. LXXXII, §§ III-IV, p. 171f., §§ XIII-XIV, pp. 184–186
12. ↑ Riedel, No. LXXXV, p. 207 on July 27, 1588
13. ↑ Riedel, p. 66ff. (“Order of the cathedral provosts from the time of transmutation to the abolition of the chapter”), p. 68
14. ↑ Matthias Bugaeus, funeral sermon for Germanus Luidtke, Stendal 1673 (Stadtarchiv Braunschweig Vol. 95 no. 25)
15. ^ Additions to the legal literature in the Prussian states ..., Volume 4, Berlin 1780 p. 237, online [3]
16. ^ Johann Seifert , Stam [m] -Taffeln Scholars People: According to the order of the alphabet: ...; Carried together with tireless diligence by long and precious correspondence and promoted to print, Volume 1, 1717, p. 61, keyword “Saltzwedel Tab. I”, digital