Ludwig Camerarius
Ludwig Camerarius (born January 22, 1573 in Nuremberg , † October 4, 1651 presumably in Heidelberg ) was a Palatine-Swedish statesman, legal scholar, envoy and head of the government in exile of Frederick V in The Hague .
Life
Camerarius was the son of the doctor Joachim Camerarius the Younger and the grandson of the humanist and eminent philologist Joachim Camerarius the Elder of the same name . He studied in Altdorf near Nuremberg from 1588 , in Helmstedt from February 2, 1592 , in Leipzig from the summer of 1592 and in Basel from 1597 . In Basel he achieved the degree of doctor of law . On April 17, 1599 he married Anna Maria Modesta Pastoir (born July 15, 1580 in Heidelberg, † around 1642) with whom he had a total of seven children. After receiving his doctorate , he practiced at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer from 1597 .
In 1598 he entered the service of the Palatinate Elector Friedrich V and in 1610 became a court advisor and in 1611 a privy councilor . Under the direction of the governor of the Upper Palatinate and Chancellor of the Electoral Palatinate, Christian I. von Anhalt-Bernburg , he actually took over the management of the Electoral Palatinate imperial policy.
Camerarius endeavored early on to secure the crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia for his employer. It is presumed that the plan goes back to him to bring the Bavarian Duke Maximilian I into play as a candidate against Ferdinand II in the emperor election of 1619.
After Frederick was elected King of Bohemia, Camerarius accompanied him to Prague and in 1620 became the Privy Councilor and Vice Chancellor of Silesia. After Frederick's defeat in November 1620, Camerarius fled with the hapless king and tried to refute the Palatinate guilt for the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War through his journalistic work and pamphlets . Particularly since his appointment as head of the Palatinate government-in-exile in The Hague, he was convinced that Protestantism was primarily about waging a struggle against the Habsburgs and the Catholic League that would encompass the whole of Europe.
In 1627 he was replaced by Johann Joachim Rusdorf as head of the government in exile. As early as 1626 he entered the Swedish service in the Netherlands, but continued to be involved in the Palatinate cause. He remained in the Swedish service until 1640.
He lived in Groningen until 1651 and returned to Heidelberg shortly before his death in 1651. It is assumed that through him the falcon book , which was once owned by his father, came to the Electors of the Palatinate and thus to the Bibliotheca Palatina .
Collectio Camerariana
The Collectio Camerariana , now in the Bavarian State Library in Munich , contains not only his own correspondence from 1621 but also many letters from Philipp Melanchthon , Martin Luther , Ulrich Zwingli , Jakob Micyllus , Erasmus von Rotterdam and the poet Georg Fabricius . Most of the letters are addressed to his grandfather Joachim Camerarius. This makes it one of the most important sources for the age of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation .
Works
- Friderici dei gratia Bohemiae regis, comitis palatini rheni, electoris & c. declaratio publica, Cur Regni Bohemiae annexarumque Provinciarum Regimen in se susceperit , 1619, digitized version of the University of Augsburg
- Prodromus, or Vorrab, necessary rescue of distinguished evangelical highs and lower classes, concerned and slanderous persons innocently, through thorough discovery of the Papist harmful intention and plan: That is: Proper and credible imprint of ugly intercepted, very far-looking, dangerous writings and writings Originals, copied with diligence, and partly removed from the languages in which they were written, were always Germanized, with brief information and instructions attached , 1622
- Cancellaria Hispanica : Adjecta sunt Acta publica, Hoc est: Scripta et Epistolae authenticae, e quibus partim infelicis belli in Germania partim Proscriptionis in Electorem Palatinum scopus praecipuus apparet… , 1622
- Report and answer to the foremost Capita, passport and points of the Bavarian-Anhalt secret Cantzley: sampt a number of Beylagen , 1623
- Mysterium iniquitatis, sive secreta secretorum turco-papistica secreta: Contra Libellum famosum, sub titulo Secreta calvino-turcica, auctore quodam personato Theonesto Cogmandolo Politiae Christianae professore, aliquoties editum. XCV considerationibus revelata, et totidem eius malitiosis et ex mera calumnia conflatis considerationibus ex parallelo opposita ... Justinopoli , 1625
literature
- Knight: Camerarius, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 724-726.
- House of Bavarian History (Ed.): The Winter King. Friedrich of the Palatinate. Bavaria and Europe in the age of the Thirty Years War . Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1810-2 .
- Anton Ernstberger (eds.): Ludwig Camerarius and Lukas Friedrich Behaim. A political exchange of letters about the decline of the empire 1636–1648 . 1961, ISBN 3-406-10460-6
- Friedrich Hermann Schubert : Ludwig Camerarius, 1573–1651. A biography. Kallmünz, Munich 1955.
- Friedrich Hermann Schubert: Ludwig Camerarius (1573-1651). A biography. The Palatinate Government-in-Exile in the Thirty Years War - A Contribution to the History of Political Protestantism , 2nd edition, with contributions to the life and work of the author, edited by Anton Schindling with co-workers. by Markus Gerstmeier, Aschendorff, Münster 2013.
- Friedrich Hermann Schubert: Camerarius, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , pp. 105-107 ( digitized version ).
- Eike Wolgast , Ludwig Camerarius and the politics of the Electoral Palatinate before and after 1619. On the reprint of Friedrich Hermann Schubert's biography about Ludwig Camerarius (1573–1651), in: Historische Zeitschrift 299,2 (2014), pp. 334–351.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Arnold Willemsen (Ed.): The Falcon Book of Emperor Friedrich II. After the splendid manuscript in the Vatican Library. (The bibliophile paperbacks No. 152), Harenberg Verlag, (Commentary and Introduction) p. 234
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Camerarius, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palatine-Swedish statesman, legal scholar and envoy, head of the government in exile of Frederick V in The Hague |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1573 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1651 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Heidelberg |