Nikolaus Barward Mentze

Nikolaus Barward Mentze (* 1719 in Lübeck ; † May 6, 1766 there ) was a Lübeck merchant and councilor.

Life

Mentze's father of the same name, a Lübeck merchant, died in 1724. The family was originally based in Braunschweig and had come to Lübeck generations earlier. Mentze initially worked in the business of the Hamburg merchant Johann Jakob Boutin . Since 1749 he ran a "velvet and silk manufacture" in Lübeck under the company "Nicol. Barward Mentze & Comp. ”And was elected to the city council in 1763 as the elder of the Novgorod drivers.

He was married to Magdalena Margaretha geb. Rodde , daughter of the mayor of Lübeck Mattheus Rodde . The later Lübeck councilor Ludwig Mentze was a son of the two. Johann Daniel Overbeck wrote his funeral speech.

literature

Johann Daniel Overbeck: Memoria Vitae Nobilissimi Prudentissimi Et Amplissimi Nicolai Barward Mentze Senatoris De Republica Lubecensi Bene Meriti. Green , Lübeck [1766] ( digitized SLUB Dresden)
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 907

supporting documents

^ Johann Rudolph Becker : Complicated history of the kaiserl. and salvation. Roman Empire Freyen City Lübeck , Volume III, Lübeck 1805, p. 260 ff. In the Google book search (linked to Volume 2)

personal data
SURNAME	Mentze, Nikolaus Barward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lübeck merchant and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH	1719
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	May 6, 1766
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Johann Rudolph Becker : Complicated history of the kaiserl. and salvation. Roman Empire Freyen City Lübeck , Volume III, Lübeck 1805, p. 260 ff. In the Google book search (linked to Volume 2)