Moritz Loff

Residential building Johannisstraße 20 (state around 1900)

Moritz Loff († 1526 in Lübeck ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

The merchant Moritz Loff is mentioned in a document in 1504 in connection with a document in which he, like Godart Wigerinck , represented the external executors of Adolf Greverade with power of attorney in connection with the foundation of the Vicarie in Lübeck Cathedral , which was responsible for furnishing the side chapel of the cathedral the altarpiece Hans Memling led. He was elected to the Lübeck Council in 1514. In 1516 he represented the city as an envoy in Antwerp in the negotiations on the planned relocation of the Bruges Hanseatic Office to Antwerp. With his bankruptcy in 1524, he left the Lübeck council. The Lübeck chronicler Heinrich Rehbein remarked to him in this connection “but otherwise he was a good man and a pious man”. In Lübeck he lived in the house Johannisstrasse 20 , then Johannisstrasse 74. His seal can be found in the Lübeck citizens' seals .

literature

Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, No. 603

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 144. (Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 )
^ Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, p. 62 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )

personal data
SURNAME	Loff, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	1526
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 144. (Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 )

[2] Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, p. 62 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )