Matthias Polenius

Matthias Polenius (* 1579 in Lobedau , Principality of Neisse , † 1631 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a Brandenburg court advisor and university professor .

Life

Polenius studied in Leipzig , Jena and Frankfurt . In Frankfurt, he also became a doctor of law doctorate and worked continuously as a professor and vice-rector at the university.

Elector Georg Wilhelm (1595–1640) appointed him in 1620 as a privy councilor and vice chancellor in his State Council .

Polenius had a son of the same name born in Frankenstein , Matthias Polenius (1611–1654), who had studied in Altdorf since 1630 .

Probably a grandson named Johann Matthias Polenius, Kurbrandenburg Council and fiefdom secretary, received from the emperor a renewal of the nobility and confirmation of the knightly nobility for the empire and the hereditary lands, with fiefdom ownership, the right to use the predicate name “von Pohlens” and to name oneself after possessed goods (the "privilegium denominandi"). The ennoblement was recognized in Kurbrandenburg on September 13th.

literature

Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200-year foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, pp. 340–342, no. 22.

Web links

Matthias Polenius in the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ Adolf Stölzel : Brandenburg-Prussia's legal administration and constitution presented in the work of its sovereign princes and highest judicial officials. Volume 1, Berlin 1888, (p. 39) and p. 330.
↑ Polenius, Matthias in the portal of the German National Library .
↑ Austrian State Archives : Polenius, Johann Matthias
↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 10.

personal data
SURNAME	Polenius, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brandenburg court advisor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1579
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lobedau
DATE OF DEATH	1631
Place of death	Frankfurt (Oder) , Principality of Neisse

[1] Adolf Stölzel : Brandenburg-Prussia's legal administration and constitution presented in the work of its sovereign princes and highest judicial officials. Volume 1, Berlin 1888, (p. 39) and p. 330.

[2] Polenius, Matthias in the portal of the German National Library .

[3] Austrian State Archives : Polenius, Johann Matthias

[4] Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 10.