Melchior Ludwig Westenholz (lawyer, 1647)

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Melchior Ludwig Westenholz (also: Melchior Ludwig Westenholtz and Melchior Ludovicus Westenholtz as well as Melchior Ludovicus Westenholts ; born September 24, 1647 in Hanover ; † February 18, 1694 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer , monastery councilor , Braunschweig-Lüneburg court councilor . and Secretary of Legation to Nijmegen .

Life

The Westenholz family is one of the oldest patrician families in Hanover and can be traced back to the beginning of the 12th century. Born in Hameln in the last year of the Thirty Years' War in 1647, according to other sources, he was the son of the lawyer of the same name Melchior Ludwig Westenholz and Marie Katharina, nee Gerdes, widowed Duve.

Westenholz studied from 1665 first at the University of Helmstedt , from 1668 then at the University of Gießen and from 1669 again in Helmstedt where, at the age of around 27, he did his legal dissertation with the respondent Johann Otto von der Marwitz ... by forestry chief and Cordiality or high game-Fuhr-Gerechtigkeit , which was published in 1674 in Helmstedt by the university printer Heinrich David Müller.

As a court and chancellery adviser, Westenholz worked at least temporarily at the Hanoverian court in the immediate vicinity of the sovereign, Ernst August von Braunschweig-Calenberg .

In 1679, Westenholz was ennobled and has since been called Melchior Ludwig von Westenholz . As a secret chamber secretary, court and monastery councilor, he married Magdalena Dorothea von Anderten on October 3, 1682 (* around July 28, 1662; January 18, 1720), daughter of the heir to Stöckheim, consistorial councilor and assessor at the court of Hanover Heinrich Eberhard von Anderten and the Marie Elisabeth block. The couple had their daughter Marie Elisabeth von Westenholz on November 17, 1687.

In mid-August 1692, his colleague Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who was also active in Hanover, wrote a “Promemoria” for von Westenholz, which is now part of Leibniz's UNESCO World Heritage Document .

On March 7, 1693, von Westenholz was raised to the imperial nobility in Vienna , to which his coat of arms also refers.

Westenholz was buried on March 9, 1694 in the family's hereditary funeral in the Kreuzkirche . His - preserved - funeral speech was given by Hermann Billerbeck , Melchior David Mejer and “Frid. Ant. Redeker ”contributed to the writing that was published by Johann Peter Grimm .

In the course of his life, Melchior Ludwig Westenholz had built up an “important library” that contained not only printed works but also manuscripts. A few years after his death in 1696, Leibniz bought the Westenholz library for 2,000 thalers for the court library, which then either completely or at least partially became part of the predecessor institution of the later Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library .

Fonts

  • Melchior Lvdovicus Westenholtz, Johan-Otto von der Marwitz: Dissertatio Academica De Jurisdictione Forestali, from Forstlicher Ober- und Herrligkeit, or high game-driving justice, Eiqve Annexo Jure Venandi , Helmestadii: typis Henrici Davidis Mvllerii, Acad. Type, MDCLXXIV; Digitized by the Bavarian State Library (BSB)
  • Obliged duty Which one of the most prestigious burials of the Weiland ... Fr. Annen Marien bored Tülsnerinnen Des ... Lord. Hvlderici Eybens ... married loved ones should pay Melchior Ludwig Westenholtz , Helmstädt: Printed by Heinrich David Müllern, in the year 1673

literature

  • Hermann Billerbeck (author), Melchior David Mejer , Frid. Ant. Redeker (contributor): The favorites and favorites of God: Bey highly respectable and most popular burial of Weyland ... Mr. Melchior Ludewig Westenholtz / Churfürstl. Braunschw. Lüneb. ... Hoff- and Kloster-Raths / as well as secret Cammer-Secretarii $ dWelcher / February 18th, of this current 1694th year ... taken from this period. And then / following March 9th / in the H. Creutz church / in his hereditary burial / was inserted. In a funeral and corpse sermon ... presented / and prepared for printing upon request / By Herman Billerbeck / Preacher at pre-named churches , Hanover: Johann Peter Grimm, 1694; Link to the respective libraries and digitized the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage (SBB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information from the German National Library [undated], last accessed on November 1, 2019
  2. ^ A b c Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The spheres of life of the higher civil servants at the Hanoverian central and court authorities 1714 - 1760 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 24) (= Studies on the history of the estates of Lower Saxony , Volume 2), Volume 2: Lists of civil servants and ancestors , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963, pp. 76, 147, 433; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ A b Hermann Billerbeck (author), Melchior David Mejer, Frid. Ant. Redeker (contributor): God's favorites and favorites ... , funeral and funeral sermon, Hanover: Johann Peter Grimm, 1694; Link to the owning libraries and to the digitized version of the Berlin State Library
  4. ↑ a b o. V .: Westenholtz, Melchior Ludwig in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of September 15, 2005, last accessed on November 1, 2019
  5. ^ A b Johann Siebmacher : J. Siebmacher's big Wappenbuch , Vol. 2, 3, 6: The coats of arms of the Low German nobility (Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg, Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Oldenburg, Lippe, Schaumburg, Hanover, Braunschweig, Anhalt) , Reprographic reprint of Siebmacher's Wappenbuch vols. 2, 3, 6, Neustadt an der Aisch: Bauer and Raspe, 1977, ISBN 978-3-87947-019-8 and ISBN 3-87947-019-7 , p. 23 and plate 21; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ a b Rudolph Ludwig Hoppe : History of the City of Hanover ... With two views and a floor plan, in Gothic script, font and print by Culemann (see p. 292), Hanover: Verlag der Hellwingschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1845, p. 36, 276; Digitized via Google books
  7. ↑ Melchior Lvdovicus West Holtz, Johan-Otto von der Marwitz: Dissertatio Academica De Jurisdictione Forestali of Forestry top and Herrligkeit ... , Digitalisat the Bavarian State Library
  8. ↑ a b c d Georg Schnath : History of Hanover in the age of the ninth cure and the English succession 1674–1714. Following Adolf Köcher's unfinished “History of Hanover and Braunschweig 1648-1714” (= publications from the Prussian State Archives , Volumes 20 and 63), Volume 2: 1693 - 1698 (= publications by the Historical Commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg -Lippe and Bremen , Volume 18), Hildesheim; Leipzig: August Lax Verlag, 1976, ISBN 3784824021 , p. 318; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete writings and letters , Akademie-Verlag, 1970, pp. Viii, xxix, especially p. 51; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ↑ Link to the Duchess Anna Amalia Library
personal data
SURNAME Westenholz, Melchior Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westenholtz; Melchior Ludwig; Westenholtz, Melchior Ludovicus; Westenholts, Melchior Ludovicus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Braunschweig-Lüneburg court advisor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover or Hameln
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1694
Place of death Hanover