Martin Chemnitz (the elder)

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Martin Chemnitz, contemporary copper engraving

Martin Chemnitz , called the Elder (born October 15, 1561 in Braunschweig , † August 26, 1627 in Schleswig ), was a legal scholar and court official in Pomeranian and Schleswig-Holstein services.

Life

The second son of the Lutheran theologian Martin Chemnitz and Anna Jäger was taught by private teachers, including Heinrich Meibom the Elder , and at the Braunschweig city school. He studied from 1578 at the University of Leipzig , where he in 1580 for Master of Philosophy received his doctorate. He then moved to the University of Helmstedt and finally to the Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) . There he became in 1588 the promotion to Doctor of Laws . Then he went to Rostock to devote himself to legal practice.

Duke Bogislaw XIII. von Pomerania appointed him to the guardianship of Duke Philipp Julius von Pommern-Wolgast. In 1601 he was appointed full professor of law at the University of Rostock and was elected rector of the university at the end of the year.

Bogislaw XIII. In 1603 von Pomerania appointed him Privy Councilor and Chancellor of the Government of Pomerania-Stettin . His successor Philip II confirmed him in his offices in 1606 and sent him to the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1613 . After Philip II's death in 1618, he accepted a call to the court of Duke Friedrich von Holstein-Gottorf in Schleswig, where he was Chancellor from 1619 until the end of his life.

family

From the marriage with Margarethe, the daughter of Heinrich Camerarius , emerged:

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Individual evidence

  1. In relation to his father of the same name, he is sometimes referred to as the younger .
  2. See also the entry by Martin Chemnitz in the Rostock matriculation portal