Otto von Estorff (Provost)

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Otto von Estorff , also Otto (VII.) Von Estorff , Etztorff , Estorpff (* 1566 ; † July 29, 1637 in Lüneburg ) was a German canon and from 1618 cathedral provost in the Schwerin monastery.

Life

Otto von Estorff, the seventh bearer of this name, came from the original noble family von Estorff , who lived in the Lüneburg Heath . He was the second son of Ludolph (XIV.) Von Estorff (1533–1602), Lord of Barnstedt and Canon in Ratzeburg , and Emerentia, née. von Elten (1540–1592). His aunt Anna had married Christoph von der Schulenburg , the last bishop of the Ratzeburg diocese , in 1555 .

At the age of eleven he received a prebend as canon in Ratzeburg in 1577 . In 1590 he was accepted into the convent of the Evangelical Michaeliskloster in Lüneburg. As Otto from Estorpff, he is recorded as a respondent in Helmstedt in 1587 , where he was enrolled at the University of Helmstedt in the winter semester of 1587/88. Until 1593 he studied at the University of Wittenberg . In the same year he was appointed court master of the young Duke August II and accompanied him to the University of Rostock . In 1594 he was at the University of Jena .

In 1596 he received a prebend as canon in Schwerin; In 1610 he became cathedral dean and in 1618 cathedral provost. Since the Reformation, these dignities were purely preambles with no spiritual duties, but still had the right to elect the bishop or administrator . Otto von Estorff's tenure was shaped by the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War . After the death of the administrator Ulrich of Denmark (1578–1624) and the assumption of office of his nephew Ulrich of Denmark (1611–1633) , the emissaries of Duke Adolf Friedrich I , Estorff, succeeded in becoming "the most influential and skilful" of the canons to convince Adolf Friedrich's son, the only two-year-old Prince Christian , to be coadjutor on August 26, 1625. 1628, however, followed the occupation of Mecklenburg by Wallenstein and its enfeoffment with the monastery. The cathedral chapter was, as it was called in the capitulation of Duke Adolph Friederich von Meklenburg on the administration of the Schwerin Abbey of 1634, countersigned by Estorff , of its goods and income, and its goods and income were privately owned and destroyed . Eleven years after von Estorff's death, the monastery was finally secularized and fell to the Duchy of Mecklenburg.

Otto von Estorff was very interested in the genealogy of his own family and the other families of the Lüneburg knighthood . In 1616 he published the family genealogy with the help of pastor Johannes Burmeister , whom he presumably knew from Rostock and whom he supported. A list of names of the nobility of the Principality of Lünburg and an extract from the state parliament recipes also come from him, only handed down by hand .

Since 1617 he was married to Catharina, b. from Barnekow . The couple had three children:

  • Anna Margaretha (1618–1650)
  • Ludolph Otto (* 1619 in Ratzeburg, † 1691 in Lüneburg), on Barnstedt and Veerßen , from 1673 first landscape director and master of the house of St. Michael in Lüneburg
  • Lohalm (* 1620; † 1637 as a student in Rostock on consumption )

Works

  • Genealogia Familiae Estorfiorum, Collecta Ex antiquis litteris & monumentis, ab incendio & hostili incursione conservatis / Per Ottonem ab Estorf, Ludolphi Filium, Ottonis Nepotem Et per Joannem Burmeisterum Lunaeburg ... Hamburg: Lange 1616
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  • “Short, harmless term and content of all privileges, privileges, princely constitutions, country tags separation, from A0. 1367. Except for the year 1598. given to the Lüneburg land from the princely land - tags-separations, and the prescriptions, policey- and court-court-order published anno 1564, and jtzo from the following land separations, and new ones Policey and church regulations up to the 1626th year extended by otto von Estorff 1628 “. in: Archive for the History and Constitution of the Principality of Lüneburg 6 (1858), pp. 287–332

literature

  • Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Brief outline of the family history of the Estorff's. Haag: Schinkel 1843
  • Gilbert Hess: Literature in the context of life: text and meaning constitution in the family book of Duke August the Younger of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1579–1666). (= Mikrokosmos: Contributions to literary studies and meaning research ISSN  0170-9143 67), Frankfurt: Lang 2002 ISBN 9783631380703 , esp.p. 259

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of death according to "Kurtzer harmless term and content of all privileges, pardons, princely constitutions, land tags separation, from A0. 1367. Except for the year 1598. given to the Lüneburg land from the princely land - tags-separations, and the prescriptions, policey- and court-court-order published anno 1564, and jtzo from the following land separations, and new ones Policey and church regulations up to the 1626th year extended by otto von Estorff 1628 “. in: Archive for the History and Constitution of the Principality of Lüneburg 6 (1858), p. 288, note 1
  2. ↑ On the line of origin see von Estorff , in: Jahrbuch des deutschen Adels. Volume 1, Berlin: Bruer 1896, p. 609
  3. ^ According to Hess (lit.); possibly this is a mix-up with Otto's brother Lohalm.
  4. ^ The register of the University of Helmstedt - Academia Helmstadiensis, Bd. 1 1574-1636, p. 68 No. 7d
  5. ↑ Gilbert Hess: Literature in the context of life: text and meaning constitution in the family book of Duke August the Younger of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1579-1666). (= Microcosm: Contributions to literary studies and research on meaning ISSN  0170-9143 67), Frankfurt: Lang 2002 ISBN 9783631380703 , p. 126
  6. ^ Entry in the family book of Bernhard Praetorius , based on the Repertorium Alborum Amicorum, accessed on June 26, 2020
  7. ^ Franz Schildt: The Diocese of Schwerin in the Protestant era. Part II, in: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 49 (1884), pp. 145–279 full text
  8. ↑ Capitulation of Duke Adolph Friederich von Meklenburg on the administration of the Schwerin monastery (containing a history of the Schwerin monastery during the Thirty Years' War). In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 23 (1858), pp. 159–163 full text
  9. ^ See Karl von Estorff: Contributions to the history of the nobility of Lower Saxony. In: Patriotic archive of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. 1842, pp. 263-277, here p. 265
  10. ↑ Entry Ludolph Otto in the Rostock matriculation portal
  11. ↑ Entry Lohalm in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Estorff, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Estorff, Otto VII von (full name); Etztorff, Otto von; Estorpff, exit Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Canon and Provost in Schwerin Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH 1566
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1637
Place of death Luneburg