Marcus Gerstenberger

Marcus Gerstenberger (born March 14, 1553 in Buttstädt , Thuringia , † August 29, 1613 in Altenburg ) was a German lawyer , Privy Councilor , Chancellor and Privy Councilor .

Life

family

Marcus Gerstenberger was born as the third child of the couple (marriage 1544) Jacob Gerstenberger (* 1512 in Buttstädt, † 1561 there, city judge and princely captain in Saxony ) and Anna Neuck (* 1510 in Erfurt , † 1578 in Buttstädt). His siblings were:

Michael (1545-1600),
Elisabeth (1548–1625) and
Joachim (1559-1624).

He spent his childhood in his native city. He later attended school in Neustadt an der Orla . His teacher was the schoolmaster Blumenröder. He then studied in Jena and later at the University of Cologne . At the age of 22, he received his doctorate in both rights ( Doctor iuris utriusque ). During his time as chancellor in Altenburg , he assumed the cost of providing for the life of poor schoolchildren in the city.

He was married to Anna Köler (Köhler; born November 9, 1556 in Pretzsch , † October 1, 1601 in Weimar ) in his first marriage since 1575 . With her he had the children:

Anna (* after 1575),
Margarethe (* around 1578), marriage to Caspar Goldstein, Princely Archbishop Council of Magdeburg.
Marcus (Marx) (1583–1634), Electoral Saxon Councilor of Ranstedt , Councilor of Dresden
Christine (1586-1613),
Johann (Hans) (1589-1622),
Sophie (1590-1611),
Justina (1593–1636) and
Elisabeth (1595–1621), married to Johann (Hans) Zeidler called Hofmann since 1614 .

Christoph Walther IV, Entombment of Christ. Relief from Marcus Gerstenberger's epitaph, Kreuzkirche Dresden

After the death of his first wife, he married Catharine Richter in 1606, the daughter of Johann Richter ( Bergmeister zu Altenburg). When his second wife died around 1608, he married his housekeeper Catharina Neuendorf for the third time. Around 1593 he was awarded the Schwerstedt manor near Weimar. The manors Leutendorf, Prosdublich, Schiebelau near Sulza and Drackendorf were added later. At the age of 60 he died in Altenburg; he was buried on August 29, 1613 in the Dresden Sophienkirche . The epitaph was created by Christoph Walther IV , the relief Entombment of Christ was saved from the removal of the church in 1963 and can be seen today in the Dresden Kreuzkirche .

Working life

After successfully studying law in 1576, he worked as a lawyer and secret councilor for two years for Volkmar Wolffen Graf zu Hohnstein in Hohnstein , where he was appointed chancellor. After his death, he continued to carry out the aforementioned activities for his son Ernst von Hohnstein until 1588. He was then appointed Chancellor of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm and his sons in Weimar and Altenburg. In 1592 he donated twelve free meals (scholarship) for Jena students. In 1592 he was ordered to Torgau and headed the board of directors. Until 1594 he was active as chancellor and chamber secretary in Weimar and Altenburg. In 1594, at the Reichstag in Regensburg , Emperor Rudolf II entrusted him with the vice chancellery to certify the documents and documents . He was solemnly ennobled for his services in 1601 . In 1608, 1609 and 1610 he was negotiator on behalf of Emperor Rudolf II in territorial claims negotiations in Prague and Zaschla in Bohemia . Around 1611 he was appointed to the court counselor in Dresden and again appointed to Prague by Emperor Rudolf II to clarify disputes and to participate in the Electoral Congress in Nuremberg. He took over guardianship and later the inheritance regulation of the late Elector Christian II at the Saxon court. At the beginning of 1613 the emperor ordered him again to Vienna to negotiate feudal claims of the state of Saxony. He created and wrote new guidelines for the judiciary and regulated the laws of his time in a simplified way and wrote documents and books.

Books and writings

1594: Friedrich Taubmann and Marcus Gerstenberger: Friderici Taubmani, Franci Columbae Poeticae, sive Carminum variorum Liber; Witebergae: Helwig, 1594
1601: Gregorius Strigenicius, Marcus Gerstenberger, Bartholomäus Voigt, Franz Schnellboltz and Johann Beyer: Das Newe vom Jahres. This is: the new of the year. That is: The beautiful / comforting and joyful prophecy / From the new empathy / Incarnation / and new bodily birth of the Son of God: which the great prophet Jeremias ... wrote / in his book on XXXI. Cap.

literature

Friedrich Carl Moser: New Patriotic Archive for Germany, Volume 1 ; Mannheim; Leipzig: Schwan & Götz, 1792–1794
Renate Jürgensen: Bibliotheca Norica: Patricians and scholarly libraries in Nuremberg between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment (contributions to books and libraries), hardcover - January 1, 2002, ISBN 978-3447045407 , p. 306.
Johann Georg August Galletti : History of Thuringia , Volume 5; Gotha 1784, p. 244.
Robert Bruck: The Sophienkirche in Dresden, its history and its art treasures; Salzwasser-Verlag GmbH 2013, ISBN 978-3846023662 , p. 54.
Wilhelm Friedrich von Pistorius: Amoenitates Historico-Iuridicae, Or all kinds of the histories of the German Empire, as well as the dissertations, observations, consilia and opuscula etc. which are customary in the same customary civil, state and fiefdom rights, customs and antiquities Completed, but never before printed, in some cases in a strange way: Volume 6; Verlag Felßecker 1739, p. 1779
Carl Große: History of the city of Leipzig from the oldest to the most recent, Volume 2, Leipzig Polet 1842, p. 195.

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personal data
SURNAME	Gerstenberger, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gerstenberger, Marcus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 14, 1553
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buttstädt , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	August 29, 1613
Place of death	Altenburg