Ludwig Günther Martini

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Ludwig Günther Martini (born January 25, 1647 in Sondershausen ; † June 27, 1719 in Reddeber ) was a German lawyer , writer and court official.

Life

He was the son of a court and field trumpeter from Zwickau who had entered the service of Count Ludwig Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . The count was the boy's godfather and supported his education at the collegiate school in Ebeleben , from 1664 at the school in Arnstadt and then at the council school in Zwickau. In 1668 he went to the University of Leipzig to study law. 1671 he received his doctorate at the University of Altdorf Dr. jur. and gave his first legal lectures there.

In 1672 Martini returned to Arnstadt, gave brief lectures in Leipzig and finally settled in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. down as a lawyer. He turned down the call to become a professor of law in Altdorf and in 1677 became a syndic of the city of Annaberg . There he became deputy and governing mayor. During the plague raging in Annaberg in 1681, he provided self-sacrificing help, but even a raise in salary could not keep him when Count Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode offered him the position of office director. He entered the service of Stolberg and Ilsenburg and Wernigerode were his two places of work until the end of his life.

After Count Ernst's death in 1710, he worked under the young Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode and personally had a very large share in the conclusion of the recession with Brandenburg-Prussia in 1714.

Martini had acquired a noble estate in Reddeber, where he died in 1719.

family

On June 24th, 1670 he got engaged to Susanna Magdalena geb. Martini (born March 23, 1654 in Zwickau, † April 8, 1699 in Wernigerode), whom he married on November 18, 1672 in the Katharinenkirche in Zwickau. Both had 14 children, seven of whom died prematurely. Her son Wilhelm Ludwig Martini (born September 2, 1684 in Wernigerode; † March 6, 1763 in Darlingerode ) acquired the house at Breite Straße 11 in Wernigerode and married Lucia Elisabeth Bothe (1685–1731) in Veckenstedt on July 17, 1709 . One daughter married the Prussian senior heraldic councilor Christian Maximilian Spener .

After the death of his first wife, he married Sabine Emerenzia Stockhausen in 1699 and had seven more children with her.

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In addition to numerous writings from his political activities, which are now managed in the State Archive of Saxony-Anhalt , Martini has left extensive legal opinions and legal works. A minister of state had once referred to it as the living corpus juris .

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