Paul Friedeborn

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Paul Friedeborn (born January 24, 1572 in Stettin , † November 14, 1637 in Stettin) was a Szczecin mayor and local historian. He wrote the first historical description of Szczecin.

life and work

Paul Friedeborn came from a family of merchants from Szczecin. In February 1586 Friedeborn was enrolled at the University of Rostock . He attended the Szczecin Pedagogy from 1589 and studied at the University of Helmstedt from 1591 . In 1596 he was council secretary in the Szczecin city administration, in 1616 councilor, in 1624 royal Swedish council and in 1630 princely budget councilor and mayor of the city. Under Duke Bogislaw XIV , he was also appointed district administrator for the Vorderstadt Stettin in 1634 .

His access to the city archives enabled him to compose his "Stettinischen Histories" based on documents and other archival material, which he published in three books in 1613 as "Historical Description of the City of Alten-Stettin". This work was probably inspired by the Pomeranian Duke Philip II , to whom he dedicated the first book. He later published the "Descriptio urbis Stetinensis topographica et historia", which was published again in 1654.

His son Jakob Friedeborn (1607–1676) was electoral Brandenburg secretary of state, his son Michael Friedeborn (1611–1672) was a counselor to the Wismar Tribunal . His daughter Anna Friedeborn (1608–1678) married the Stettin pastor Samuel Fuchs; The Brandenburg-Prussian statesman Paul von Fuchs (1640–1704) emerged from this marriage .

Fonts

  • Historical description of the city of Old Szczecin in Pomerania . Jochim Rhetes Erben, Alten Stettin 1613 ( full text ).

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Paul Friedeborn's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ A b Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Addendum to the brief historical, geographical, statistical description of the royal Prussian duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1795, p. 292.
  3. ^ Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , p. 163.
personal data
SURNAME Friedeborn, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Szczecin mayor and local historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1572
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1637
Place of death Szczecin