Michael Christoph Siricius

Michael Christoph Siricius (* August 1679 in Lübeck ; † 1749 ibid) was secretary of the Hanseatic Office in Bergen (Norway) .

Life

Michael Christoph Siricius came from a family of scholars who were close to the Lübeck mountain drivers and was the son of Lübeck council secretary Christoph Siricius and nephew of the former clerk in Bergen and later Lübeck mayor Johann Siricius . Siricius had finished his law studies with a doctorate to become a licentiate in both rights. He was initially secretary to the Danish bailiff in Meldorf for ten years , where he had frequent dealings with the government in Copenhagen. He was proposed by the Lübeck Mayor Adolf Mattheus Rodde as the successor to the departing secretary of the Bergen office, Christian Wilhelm Höltich , and accepted by the senior men of the Bergen Driver Corporations in Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, not least because of his family history for this task that he was appointed the new clerk of the office on May 1, 1717 with an annual salary of 300 Reichstalers. At the end of May 1717 he arrived in Bergen from Hamburg sailing across the North Sea . However, the hopes tied to him were not fulfilled. His correspondence was described as negligent, the information he had provided from Bergen was not sufficient for the colleges in the Hanseatic cities, accounting documents from Bergen only arrived after several months of delay, so that individual mountain drivers in Germany suffered economic damage. As early as 1722, the Bremer Bergenfahrer urged to resign him. The Lübeckers, however, still showed solidarity with Siricius until the Hamburg mountain drivers demanded his dismissal. However, he himself had set the end of his work as a secretary in Bergen: in 1723 he could no longer service his own representation expenses in Bergen. Invited wine bills from the landlord in the wine cellar of the Kontor on Bryggen could not be recovered by way of foreclosure , so that Siricius was held in custody in the detention center in the cellar under the Bergen town hall. While in custody, he was looked after by his successor in office in Bergen, Tobias Anton Maysaal , who also passed on news about the prisoner's conditions and condition. With funds from his closest relatives in Lübeck, he was released in 1724 after a year in prison. In 1725 he got a position as adjunct of the council chancellery in Lübeck. He married the daughter of a Lübeck lawyer in 1726 and was buried in the grave of his father-in-law in 1749.

His brother was the pastor Johann Hermann Siricius in Travemünde .

literature

• Friedrich Bruns : The Secretaries of the German Office in Bergen , in: Det Hanseatiske Museums Skriften , Volume 13, Bergen 1939, pp. 106–110

Individual evidence

1. ↑ buried on July 3, 1749 in the Petrikirche (Lübeck)
2. ^ Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from older times. Lübeck: Dittmer 1859, p. 81 ff.