Nicolaus Greiff

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Nicolaus Greiff , also Nicolaus Gryphius or Nicolaus Griphius , from 1578 Nicolaus Greiff im Braunfels (* before 1578 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 1618 ibid) was a German politician in the imperial city of Frankfurt.

Life

origin

He belonged to the established Frankfurt patrician family Greiff. In 1499, the Frankfurt Council set up a commission to work out a new version of the Frankfurt city law. This began its work in 1500, when alderman Hartmann Greiff was its member. In 1509 the city law went to press. In 1538 and 1539 or 1546, for example, Jacob and Hartmann Greiff, who are the keepers of the alms box, are legally qualified members of the family in the imperial city-Frankfurt offices.

Education, work and family

Nicolaus Greiff studied at the University of Marburg and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. In 1578 he bought the Großer Braunfels on the Liebfrauenberg from Augustin Legrand for 3,000 florins. Like Hartmann and Jacob Greiff before him in the first half of the 16th century, he was the nurse of St. Nikolai from 1586 to 1588 . Married to a Neuhaus, in 1589 he had the All Saints Chapel , for which his wife's family was so important, restored at his own expense , and the Greiff-Neuhaus alliance coat of arms carved in stone on the outside. In 1597 he had the corridor built in the representative Braunfels house. In 1602 he married Maria Magdalena von Glauburg , née Widtmann.

The Großer Braunfels house on the Liebfrauenberg, view from 1635. Since 1694 the place of assembly of the patrician society Zum Frauenstein .

Greiff became a councilor in 1606 and a lay judge in Frankfurt am Main in 1609 . In 1612 he was involved in the negotiation of the civil contract. In 1613 he was named Nikolaus Greiff in Braunfels on a newly organized council, alongside the lawyer Dr. Jakob Greiff called. In 1615 he was senior mayor after the Fettmilch uprising and then resigned from the council.

literature

  • Barbara Dölemeyer: Frankfurt Jurists in the 17th and 18th Centuries, 1993, ISBN 3465025830 , pp. 66–67.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commentary on the "Frankfurter Dirigierrolle", p. 344
  2. ^ The Oberhof zu Frankfurt am Main and Franconian law, p. 96
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Frankfurter Handelsgeschichte, p. 63
  5. ↑ Franckfurter Chronick, p. 105 ff.
  6. ↑ Franckfurter Chronick, p. 26
  7. ↑ Frankfurter Handelsgeschichte, p. 85
personal data
SURNAME Greiff, Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gryphius, Nicolaus; Griphius, Nicolaus; Greiff im Braunfels, Nicolaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician of the imperial city of Frankfurt
DATE OF BIRTH before 1578
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 1618
Place of death Frankfurt am Main