Nicolaus von Klemptzen

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Grave slab in the church of Pinnow

Nicolaus von Klemptzen (* around 1504; † January 30, 1552 in Pinnow ) was a Pomeranian-Volga land rent master and historian .

Life

He was the second child of the mayor of Stolp , Peter Klemptzen. From around 1523 he was in the service of Duke George I of Pomerania. Around 1527 he became secretary in the princely chancellery in Stettin . In 1530 he accompanied the dukes George I and Barnim IX. to the Reichstag in Augsburg . After George's death in 1531, he entered Barnim's service and, after the division of the country in 1532, moved to Duke Philip I of Pomerania-Wolgast. In 1535 he was given the post of land rent master in Pomerania-Wolgast for eight years. In the same year he accompanied Johannes Bugenhagen to the church visit to Stralsund and Neuenkamp . In 1540 he received a preamble to the Camminer Cathedral . In 1543 he resigned from his two offices, but remained as a councilor at the Wolgast court .

In 1544 he was sent twice to Wittenberg to win Johannes Bugenhagen as Bishop of Cammin , the second time Paul von Rode accompanied him , but he was unsuccessful. In 1547, at his own request, he was given the management of the Stolpe office . Shortly before, Duke Philip I had given him a house in Anklam , called “the temple”, which had previously belonged to the Stolpe Monastery . In the same year he exchanged his Lubbin fiefdom for shares in the Pinnow , Bömitz and Klitschendorf (Klitzkendorf) estates. In 1551 he resigned from the administration of the Stolpe office and asked the duke for the income he had previously promised for life. He had got into debt while setting up a new house in Stolpe. According to the inscription on his grave slab, Nikolaus von Klemptzen died on January 30, 1552 in Pinnow and was buried in the village church of Pinnow .

Klemptzen was married to Magdalena von Bonow, a daughter of Valentin von Bonow auf Turow and Katharina von Zitzewitz, and had a son, who died early, and two daughters.

Klemptzen took over the academic legacy of Thomas Kantzow , whose work he had supported from the start. The estate version of "Pomerania" from 1541/42 Kantzows was then completed by Klemptzen using studies and notes by Kantzow.

Works

  • From the Pomeranian country and its princes, gender description in IV books. Edited from an old manuscript. Stralsund: Struck 1771
Digital copy of the copy from the Berlin State Library

literature

  • Gottfried von Bülow :  Klemptzen, Nicolaus von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 155 f.
  • Wilhelm Böhmer : Thomas Kantzow's Chronicle of Pomerania in Low German dialect. Friedrich Heinrich Morin, Stettin 1835, pp. 74-89 ( Google books ).
  • Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten : News of the retrieval of the second High German version of his Pomeranian Chronicle, written by Thomas Kantzow himself; In addition to litogr. Samples of the manuscripts of Thomas Kantzow a. Niklaus von Klemptzens , Koch, Greifswald 1842 ( Google books )
  • Johann Carl Dähnert (Ed.): Nicolaus Klemzen vom Pommer-Lande and its princes: Gender description in IV books based on an old manuscript , Struck, Stralsund 1774

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After the grave slab
personal data
SURNAME Klemptzen, Nicolaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klemzen, Nikolaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German land rent master and historian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1504
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1552
Place of death Pinnow