Ludwig von Janowitz

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Coat of arms of the von Janowitz family
Ditzingen Castle

Ludwig von Janowitz (born April 29, 1583 in Stuttgart ; † May 31, 1641 in Regensburg ) was an administrative officer and envoy from Württemberg .

family

Janowitz was a son of the Württemberg court master and Obervogts zu Bietigheim , Sachsenheim and Gröningen Hermann von Janowitz, called Böheim († 1598) and his wife Agnes, nee. from Sternenfels .

Life

After attending the pedagogy in Stuttgart Janowitz studied philosophy and law at the University of Tübingen (matriculation on January 12, 1600), from 1601 at the University of Strasbourg and 1602 at the University of Pont-à-Mousson . He then traveled to Paris and Orléans , where he stayed for about a year, and to England via Calais and Dover . There he visited, among other things, the university city of Oxford . After his return to Germany, Janowitz entered the service of the Duke of Württemberg in 1605. In 1607 he became a member of the upper council and later chief bailiff in Kirchheim unter Teck . In 1634 he temporarily resigned from civil service, but only four years later he rejoined the Higher and Justice Council. In 1640 he was appointed the Württemberg ambassador to the Reichstag in Regensburg, where he died the following year.

Janowitz was buried in the churchyard of the 1627–1631 newly built church of the Heyligen Dreyfaltigkeit (today Dreieinigkeitskirche ). The churchyard had been used as an emergency burial place for Protestant officers during the Thirty Years War from 1633. After Janowitz's funeral, further burials in the churchyard were forbidden from 1643, but resumed after 1653. After the beginning of the Perpetual Reichstag , around 50 more envoys were buried here until the end of the Reichstag, of which the Janowitz funeral is the first burial of an envoy in the churchyard, which is now known as the envoy cemetery . When his name is entered, the original burial register, which was created at the end of the 17th century, begins. As a grave monument, the large Janowitz grave slab with a coat of arms and partly still legible German inscription has been preserved, but partly broken.

Ludwig von Janowitz was the owner of the castle in Ditzingen , which the family had owned as a Württemberg man fief since 1550 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Hermelink : The matriculations of the University of Tübingen . First volume: The registers from 1477–1600 . Stuttgart 1906. No. 232, 31.
  2. ↑ Klaus-Peter Rueß: Burials and grave monuments on the "Kirch-Hoff zur Heyligen Dreyfaltigkeit" at the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg. Edition of the burial entries in the handwritten burial register 1641–1787 for the sentry cemetery in Regensburg. State Library Regensburg, Regensburg 2015, p. 72.
  3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Rueß: The ambassador's cemetery at the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg, its origin and its construction history. State Library Regensburg, Regensburg 2015, pp. 67–72.
  4. ^ Albrecht Klose / Klaus-Peter Rueß: The grave inscriptions on the ambassador's cemetery in Regensburg. Texts, translations, biographies, historical notes . In: Stadtarchiv Regensburg (ed.): Regensburger studies . tape 22 . Regensburg City Archives, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-943222-13-5 , p. 54-55 .
personal data
SURNAME Janowitz, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg administrative official and envoy
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1583
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1641
Place of death regensburg