Moritz Bünsow

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Moritz Bünsow (* in Greifswald ; † 1587 ibid) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Greifswald.

Life

Grave slab in the Marienkirche

Moritz Bünsow came from the Greifswald council family Bünsow and was a son of the Greifswald mayor Caspar Bünsow . He enrolled in 1540 to study at the University of Greifswald . With the death of his father in 1555 he became councilor in Greifswald. Bünsow was provisional to the Heilig-Geist and St.-Georgs Hospital in Greifswald. In 1565 he became bailiff and in 1577 mayor of the city.

Moritz Bünsow was married to Catharina Corswant, daughter of Greifswald's mayor Peter Corswant . Several children were born from the marriage. Both spouses were buried under a preserved coat of arms slab in the Marienkirche .

See also

literature

  • Robert Bünsow: Contribution to the family chronicle of the Bünsow line under six centuries. Stockholm 1913, p. 34 ff. Online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DI 77, Greifswald, No. 257 (Jürgen Herold, Christine Magin), in: www.inschriften.net, urn: nbn: de: 0238-di077g014k0025709 .
personal data
SURNAME Bünsow, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH 1587
Place of death Greifswald