Peter Axen

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Peter Axen (born July 16, 1635 in Husum , † February 23, 1707 in Schleswig ) was a German philologist , humanist and diplomat in Schleswig-Holstein .

Life

Peter Axen was born as the sixth of twelve children of a respected Protestant family in Husum. His father was Titus Axen (1602–1662), mayor of Husum and canon of Hamburg . His mother Elsabe Petersen (1607–1644) was the daughter of the Husum merchant and councilor Peter Petersen (1576–1679).

After attending the city school in Husum, he attended the academic schools in Flensburg and Lüneburg . He then studied law and fine arts at the universities of Helmstedt (1653–1655), Leipzig (1658), Jena (1662) and Padua (1668).

In 1659 he was court master of the Lords of Pfuhl in Eisleben and since 1663 court master of Baron Heinrich von Friesen . In this capacity he traveled to France in 1663, 1664 and 1665 and Italy between 1667 and 1668. At the same time, from 1663 he was secretary to Duke Christian Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf in Schleswig . As a ducal travel secretary, he attended the wedding of the Elector of Saxony Johann Georg III in Copenhagen in 1666 . with the Danish Princess Anna Sophie . Entrusted with diplomatic tasks since 1673, he stayed in 1677 as ducal legation secretary at the electoral Saxon court in Dresden and around 1680 at the royal Danish court in Copenhagen. He also traveled to the Netherlands and Great Britain.

On July 7, 1670, he married Anna Catharina buoy (1651-1687), a daughter of the steward, ducal bailiff of Norderdithmarschen and War Commissioner John Buoy (1612-1668). From this marriage there were seven children, of which only three survived. In the same year he settled as court and regional court advocate in Schleswig, where he stayed until his death in 1707. He had an excellently equipped library, which included a Codex by Cornelius Nepos .

In his will of April 2, 1705 he donated 300 Luebian marks each to the school of scholars , the poor chest and the St. Marien church in Husum and 950 Luebian marks to the poor and elderly monastery, Gasthaus zum Ritter St. Jürgen .

He was buried in a crypt below the transept in St. Petri Cathedral in Schleswig.

Works

Peter Axen was an academic writer. He was also the editor and author of several funeral sermons , including for Christof von Pfuhl and Helene von Kerssenbrock. He became known through the translation of the Historia pacis inter Ludovicum XIV. Et Philippum IV by Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato from Italian (1667) and as the editor of the Fables of Phaedrus (1671).

literature

  • Thomas Otto Achelis : Register of the Schleswig students 1517–1864. Volume 1, Gads, Copenhagen 1966, p. 125 (No. 2502).
  • Johann Christoph Adelung (Hrsg.): General learned lexicon. Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general lexico of scholars, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Volume 1, Gleditsch, Leipzig 1784.
  • Christian Ulrich Beccau: History of Husum up to the granting of the town charter together with the town constitution of Husum , unchanged reprint from 1840 and 1854. Lühr and Dircks, St. Peter-Ording 1988, pp. 356–361.
  • Rudolf Eckart : Lexicon of Lower Saxony writers from the oldest times to the present. Zickfeldt, Osterwieck 1891.
  • J. Henningsen: The foundation book of the city of Husum. A collection of documents. Jebens, Husum 1904.
  • Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen:  Axen, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 707.
  • Heinrich Grimm:  Axen, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 471 ( digitized version ).
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Ed.): Scholars-Lexicon in it the scholars of all classes from the beginning of the world to the present time. According to their birth, life, writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Volume 1, Gleditsch, Leipzig 1750.
  • Hermann Kellenbenz : Axen, Peter. In: Olaf Klose (ed.): Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon, Vol. 1, Neumünster: Wachholtz 1970, pp. 50–51.
  • Johann Moller: Cimbria literata sive Scriptorum ducatus utriusque Slesvicensis et Holsatici historia literaria tripartite. Volume 1. Moller, Copenhagen 1744.
  • Johann Heinrich Stepf: Gallery of all juridical authors from the oldest to the present time. Volume 1, Leipzig 1820.
  • Axenius, Peter. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 2, Leipzig 1732, column 2282 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Georg Morhof: Amores auspicatissimos viri nobiliss et clarissimi dn. Petri Axen, et nobilissimae elegantissimaeque virginis Annae Catharinae buoys . Joachim Reumann, Kiel 1670.
  2. ↑ Samuel Adolph Müller (ed.): Nobilissimo, consultissimo, doctissimoque domino Petro Axenio jcto, fautori suo benevolo auspicatissimas contrahenti nuptias cum praenobili et lectissima virgine Anna Catharina Boia, officiosa et devota congratulatione ita accinebant . Samuel Adolph Müller, Jena 1670.
  3. ^ Ernst Friedrich Schröter and Peter Axen: Disputatio feudalis de fidelitate. Continens explicationem titul. IV. V. VI. et VII. libr. II. Feud. et Quaestionum ad eos spectantium succinctam resolutionem . Johann Jakob Bauhöfer, Jena 1663.
  4. ↑ Peter axes: Sepulchrale elogium per-illustris ac generosissimae Dominae . Melchor Bergen, Dresden 1667.
  5. ↑ Peter Axen: Epitaphios logos quem illustri et generosißimo dc Christophoro a Phuel . Christoph Salfeld, Halle 1661.
  6. ↑ Peter Axen: Historia vitae et obitus virtutis iuxta ac stemmatis ornamentis illustris dominae Helenae a Kerssenbrug, viri illustris et Excellentissimi dn. Adami a Pfuel . Johann Jakob Bauhöfer, Jena 1662.
  7. ↑ Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato: Historia pacis inter Ludovicum XIV. Galliarum et Navarrae christianissimum regem, et Philippum IV. Hispaniarum et Indiarum regem catholicum, anno christi M.DC.LIX. ad Pyrenaeos Montes, arbitris moderatoribus eminentissimo cardinale Mazarino et D. Ludovico Mendez de Haro / constitutae. Petrus Axen, H. Slesv. ex Italico comitis Galeatii Gvaldi latina translatione donavit et Indices necessarios, ipsaq [ue] Pacis capita adiecit . Leipzig 1667.
  8. ↑ Phædri: Augusti liberti, Fabularum æsopiarum, Libri quinque cum prioribus ac posterioribus notis Nicolai Rigaltii dum viveret, Christianissimo Regia Bibliotheca, et in suprema a metensi curia a consiliis. Petrus Axen, HS recensuit, suasque Notas adiecit . Johann Naumann and Georg Wolf, Hamburg 1671.
personal data
SURNAME Axen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Schleswig-Holstein lawyer, philologist, humanist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1707
Place of death Schleswig (city)