Marquard Freher

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Marquard Freher, portrayed by Johann Jacob Haid

Marquard Freher (born July 26, 1565 in Augsburg ; † May 13, 1614 in Heidelberg ) was a German lawyer , historian , publicist , diplomat and statesman .

Life

The Freher family traced itself back to an old noble family von Weysach (Wyssach, Weissach), their nobility was recognized in 1588 in an electoral coat of arms.

Marquard Freher studied law under Jacques Cujas in Altdorf and Bourges and became Professor of Law in Heidelberg in 1596 and Councilor to Elector Friedrich IV of the Palatinate in 1598 , who often used him for diplomatic business, especially with the King of Poland, and as Vice President appointed. He maintained correspondence with the pastor and chronicler Johann Jakob Rüeger, among others .

Marquard Freher married Katharina in 1593 († April 16, 1598), daughter of the Kurtrier personal physician Heinrich Weyer and granddaughter of Johann Weyer , with whom he had two sons who died young. She was buried in the Peterskirche in Heidelberg .

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Fonts (selection)

  • Edited by Johannes Leunclavius (Frankfurt 1596, 2 vols.)
  • Origines Palatinae: In quibus praeter gentis & dignitatis Palatinae primordia, tum Haidelbergae & vicini tractus antiquitatem, multa scitu digna, quà ad universam Germaniam, quà ipsum Imperium Rom. (Heidelberg 1599)
  • Germanicarum rerum scriptores aliquot insignes (Frankfurt and Hanau 1600–1611, 3 vol .; new edition by GB Struve, Strasbourg 1717, 3 vol.)
  • Edited by Johannes Trithemius : Opera historica , part 1 u. 2. Unchangeable Reprint of the edition Frankfurt, Claudius, 1601. Frankfurt / M .: Minerva-Verlag 1966. ISBN 3-86598-190-9
  • Rerum bohemicarum scriptores aliquot antiqui (Hanau 1602)
  • Rerum moscovitarum autores aliquot (Hanau 1600)
  • Corpus francicae historiae veteris (Hanau 1613; new edition by Köhler, Altdorf 1720)
  • Directory in omnes fere chronologos romano-germanici imperii (new edition by Köhler, Altdorf 1729).

Editions and translations

  • Marquard Freher: De Lupoduno Antiquissimo Alemaniae Oppido Commentariolus. The first description of the old Ladenburg from 1618. Transferred and explained by Hermann Wiegand. Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-932102-02-9
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann u. a. (Ed.): The German humanists. Department 1: The Electoral Palatinate. Volume I / 1: Marquard Freher . Brepols, Turnhout 2005, ISBN 2-503-52017-0 (collection of texts on Freher's literary and editorial work in the context of the reception of ancient and medieval literature)

literature

Web links

Commons : Marquard Freher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Kornexl: Studies on Marquard Freher (1565-1614) . (diss. phil. Freiburg i. Br. 1966). Bamberg 1967, p. 6. Gundula Caspary: Late humanism and imperial patriotism . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 25, note 23.
  2. ^ Johannes Posthius: Ad tumulum Marqvardi Theodori Freheri, MF infantis suauiß . In: Marquard Freher: De Lvctv Minvendo, Et Desiderio Praemissae Conivgis Solando, Epistola Ad Iohannem Mvnstervm, Praefectum VViedanum. Epitaphium Catharinae Wierae . Heidelberg 1599 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich).
  3. ↑ Jan Gruter: De filio suo Philippo MF In: Marquard Freher: De Lvctv Minvendo, Et Desiderio Praemissae Conivgis Solando, Epistola Ad Iohannem Mvnstervm , Praefectum VViedanum. Epitaphium Catharinae Wierae . Heidelberg 1599 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich). Johann von Münster (1560–1632) zu Vortlage was a politician and writer.
  4. ↑ Marquard Freher: De Lvctv Minvendo, Et Desiderio Praemissae Conivgis Solando, Epistola Ad Iohannem Mvnstervm, Praefectum VViedanum. Epitaphium Catharinae Wierae . Heidelberg 1599 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich).
  5. ↑ See Renate Neumüllers-Klauser: The inscriptions of the city and the district of Heidelberg . (The German inscriptions. Heidelberg Row 4). Druckmüller, Stuttgart 1970, p. 296.
  6. ↑ From Nuremberg (1561–1625); Counselor.
  7. ↑ From Leszno (1575–1628); Voivode in Kalisz and Polish Grand Chancellor.
  8. ↑ From Löwenberg ( Lwówek Śląski ) (1553–1599); Secretary of the Court War Council in Prague and Vienna.
  9. ^ Also Jacques Lect or Lett (* 1556; † after 1609), Geneva professor of law, syndic and consul.
  10. ^ Studied in Frankfurt an der Oder and Strasbourg, Electoral Brandenburg Council (1534–1609), neo-Latin poet, epitaph in the Nikolaikirche, today in the Stadtmuseum Berlin.
  11. ↑ From Nuremberg (1556–1624); Professor of Law in Altdorf.
  12. ^ From Oschatz (1566–1620), lawyer at the Silesian Court Court, Prefect of Breslau.

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personal data
SURNAME Freher, Marquard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1565
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1614
Place of death Heidelberg