Nicolaus von Gersdorf

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Nicolaus von Gersdorf , since 1672 imperial baron Nicolaus von Gersdorf (born June 9, 1629 in Doberschütz , † August 23, 1702 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Nicolaus von Gersdorf was the son of his father of the same name Nicolaus von Gersdorf († 1631) on Malschwitz , imperial councilor and heir to Döberschitz and his wife Anna Maria von Loeben from the Kreckwitz family.

1643 he was in the royal court of Denmark to study, but was at the request of Elector Johann Georg II. The chamber Page at the electoral court in Dresden.

From 1647 to 1651 he conducted humanistic studies as well as Jus publicum and privatum ( public and private law ) at the University of Wittenberg ; then he traveled through France , England , Holland and Italy .

In 1655 he was appointed councilor of appeal for the Elector of Saxony and a councilor the following year . In 1657 he went as an electoral ambassador, on the occasion of the death of Emperor Ferdinand III. , to Vienna and in 1658 was sent to Frankfurt am Main by the electoral college (supreme authority) for the election of Leopold I. In the same year he also visited the King of Sweden, Charles X. In 1660 he was appointed to the Real Privy Council .

On December 9, 1662 he was accredited as the Saxon principal envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg and stayed there until 1664 at the request of Emperor Leopold I. In that year he was also director of the electoral Saxon district council and was sent by it to the emperor in Vienna. In 1665 and 1666 he was involved in the settlement of the Munster and Dutch riots that later led to the Treaty of Kleve . In 1667 the electoral college sent him to France, where in 1668 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye he brought proposals to King Louis XIV on behalf of the Cologne Convention and offered to mediate in the military conflict between Spain and France . After its acceptance, with the participation of the English and Dutch ambassadors, he was able to settle the matter in such a way that the proposals made were accepted without changes in the Peace of Aachen .

In 1672 he again had the directorate of the Upper Saxon district council, in the same year the emperor appointed him imperial baron with the predicate panner lord .

In 1679 he was in Lund in Skåne as a peace broker during the Skåne War between Denmark and Sweden (1675–1679).

1680 he was by Elector Johann Georg III. appointed Lord Chamberlain and Director of the Privy Council in 1686. Since that year he has also maintained friendly contact with the Lutheran theologian Philipp Jacob Spener , one of the most famous exponents of Pietism . He was also in correspondence with August Hermann Francke , the pietistic theologian Paul Anton and with Carl Hildebrand von Canstein , the founder of the biblical institute of the same name.

The Elector of Saxony sent him in January 1690 as a principal envoy to Augsburg for the coronation of Joseph I. In 1691 he was appointed by Johann Georg IV. As authorized governor of Upper Lusatia in Bautzen .

In 1691 he had the Mannlehngut Berthelsdorf converted into an Erb- , Spill- and Kunkellehen so that it could also be bequeathed to female descendants. In 1693 he acquired the Niedere Berthelsdorfer Gut (also called Klixisches Gut) from Magnus von Klix. On May 23, 1694, he signed a treatise with the emperor regarding the army command, which allowed the elector to provide the auxiliary troops he had promised to the emperor only after field marshal Hans Adam von Schöning had been released.

Nicolaus von Gersdorf was married to Hedwig Elisabeth Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1640–1664) in his first marriage since 1659 . In his second marriage he was married to Eva Katharina von Günderrode († 1670) from 1666 .

In 1672 he married Henrietta Catharina (born October 6, 1648 in Sulzbach ; † March 5, 1726 in Großhennersdorf near Zittau ), daughter of the Electoral Saxon Secret Council and the President of the Upper Consistory Carl von Friesen (1619–1686) . His wife had the Holy Scriptures printed in Wendish for the first time after her husband had arranged for the first printing of an ABC book in 1670, with which the Wendish language was recorded as a written language. Because Nicolaus von Gersdorf was mostly in Dresden, his third wife took over the management of the Berthelsdorf estate and the neighboring estates; after the death of her husband she retired to her property in Großhennersdorf.

All three marriages had had twelve daughters and seven sons.

His son Johann Georg von Gersdorf (* May 16, 1662; † unknown), from his first marriage, was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon chamberlain who received Kemnitz , Bretnig and Hauswalde when the estate was divided .

Six children from his third marriage survived:

  • Johanne Eleonore von Gersdorf, married to Gottlob Ehrenreich von Gersdorf (1666–1720) on Weichau in Silesia ;
  • Gottlob Friedrich von Gersdorf (born April 19, 1680; † 1752), he was court and judicial advisor and was also assessor of the chamber court, as well as Polish and Saxon-Merseburg real secret council; Lord of Baruth , Buchwalde and Rackel , later also from Oberberthelsdorf. In 1745 he was raised to the rank of imperial count ;
  • Nicolaus von Gersdorf (* 1689 in Dresden; † unknown), Polish and Electoral Saxon court and judiciary; Owner of Berthelsdorf, Großhennersdorf and hay barn ;
  • Charlotte Justine von Gersdorf (born November 17, 1675; † August 31, 1763), mastered Greek , Latin and some European languages; first marriage to Georg Ludwig Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (1662–1700), Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor and Chamberlain, and second marriage to Dubislaw Gneomar von Natzmer , royal Prussian lieutenant general ;
  • Rahel von Gersdorf was married to Georg Christoph von Burgsdorf ;
  • Henriette Sophie; she was from 1717 to 1741 owner of Großhennersdorf to which they rendered great services by 1721 a significant foundation for the poor alloy and to promote the education of youth orphanage Catharinenhof built, took over in 1838, the state and it built a country orphanage. She worked for the Moravian congregations and took in the Moravian brothers who had been expelled from Bohemia in Großhennersdorf, and she continued to contribute most of the upbringing of her nephew, Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf , later bishop of the Moravian congregation ( Brothers' Unity ) . She died unmarried.

When Nicolaus von Gersdorf died, he was Pannerherr in Baruth, Berthelsdorf, Breitlingen, Bretnig, Buchwalde, Hauswalde, Hennersdorf, Heuscheune, Kemnitz, Kreckwitz, and Rackel.

honors and awards

  • In 1672, Emperor Leopold I raised Nicolaus von Gersdorf to the status of imperial baron with the predicate Pannerherr.

Memberships

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Literature (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Justus Christoph Dithmar : Genealogical historical message from the master masters of the Johanniter order . S. 16, 1737 ( digitized in the Google book search [accessed on September 30, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Mr. Ludwig Holberg's Danish Empire History translated into German . The third part. In addition to a complete register for all three parts. Korte, Flensburg, Altona 1744, p. 789 ( digitized in Google Book Search [accessed September 30, 2019]).
  3. ^ Daniel Ernst Wagner : General world history . tape 66 . Traßler, Brünn 1788, p. 890 ( digitized version in Google book search [accessed September 30, 2019]).
  4. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation . tape 33 . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854, p. 230 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed September 30, 2019]).
  5. ^ Johann Stephan Pütters royal British electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg secret judicial council, and full teacher of constitutional law in Göttingen, more complete manual of the German Empire history . Vandenhoeck, 1772, p. 880 ( digitized in Google Book Search [accessed September 30, 2019]).
  6. Jump up ↑ History - Feudal Rule. In: berthelsdorf.info. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Christian Ernst Weisse : The latest history of the Kingdom of Saxony since the Peace of Prague up to our times . tape 1 .. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1808, p. 274 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed October 1, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Clemens Alois Baader : The learned Baiern or lexicon of all writers which Baiern produced or nourished in the 18th century . tape 1 .. Seidel, Nürnberg, Sulzbach 1804, p. 381 f . ( Digitized in Google Book Search [accessed September 30, 2019]).
  9. ^ Ingeborg C. Baldauf: Gersdorf (Gersdorff), Henriette Katharina Freifrau von . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  10. ↑ Jens Kunze: Friesen (to Rötha), Carl Freiherr von . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  11. ↑ Carolus Theophilus Anton : Directory of all school publications published in the 18th century for the Johann Rudolph von Gersdorf memorial ceremony in Görlitz . Heinze, Görlitz 1824, p. 5 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed September 30, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Fruitful Society - The German Academy of the 17th Century. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gersdorf, Nicolaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Görsdorf, Nicolaus von; Gersdorff, Nicol von; Gersdorf, Nikolaus von; Gersdorff, Nicolaus von; Gerstorff, Nicol von; Gerstorff, Nicolaus von; Gersdorff, Nikolaus von; Gersdorff, Nicolaus a; Gerßdorff, Nicolaus a; Gerßdorff, Nicol von; Görsdorf, Nicolao; Goersdorf, Nicolaus von; Gœrsdorf, Nicolaus von; Görsdorf, Nikolaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Doberschütz
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1702
Place of death Dresden