Melchior Marting

Melchior Marting (* around 1591; † April 14, 1665 ) was an administrative lawyer in Hildesheim .

Life

Marting was born as the son of the Kramer Johann Marting from Holle , who had acquired the citizenship of Braunschweiger Neustadt in January 1600 . From 1607 he studied law at the University of Helmstedt . After he was converted to Catholicism in 1615 under the influence of the Jesuits, he entered the service of the Hildesheim Monastery . In 1629 he was a member of a restitution commission as procurator. In the same year he applied for the transfer of an office. He was administrator in Wiedelah from 1630 to 1631 and was then, in exchange with Heinrich Burchtorff, bailiff of the Winzenburg office , where he can be traced from Easter to Michaelmas 1631. Then he had to give way to a Brunswick bailiff. In the meantime, he managed a farm of the St. Michael monastery in Everode , then a half-span farm in Ohlenrode. After the Winzenburg Office was returned to the Hildesheim Monastery in 1643, Marting was reinstated as a bailiff and administered it until his death. In 1644 he was also the administrator of the city bailiwick of Alfeld .

family

Marting was married to Catharina a Sittard († 1672), who came from a patrician family in Cologne.

literature

• Thomas Klingbiel: A stand of its own? Local officials in the early modern period: Studies on state formation and social development in the Hildesheim Monastery and in the older Principality of Wolfenbüttel . Hanover 2002, p. 713