Peter Engelbrecht (lawyer)

Peter Engelbrecht , Latinized Petrus Engelbrecht junior (* 1558 or 1559 in Ilsenburg ; † June 7, 1618 in Braunschweig ), was a German lawyer and chronicler.

Life

Peter Engelbrecht was the eldest son of the ironworks factor Peter Engelbrechts the Elder († 1598) in Ilsenburg. He studied law from May 1580 at the University of Helmstedt and from December 1586 at the University of Wittenberg . Engelbrecht received his doctorate in law from the University of Basel in 1591 . From 1594 to 1596 he managed the Ilsenburg Monastery for his father, who had suffered a stroke . On December 21, 1595 he was appointed as the first council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck ( Protonotar ) from Easter 1596 . There, the city's books show salary payments from July 1596 to January 1602. On November 10, 1601 he was committed to the Syndicus of the city of Nordhausen for three years. He then became the syndic of the city of Braunschweig . From Braunschweig he corresponded in 1612 with the doctor and historian Wilhelm Budaeus in Halberstadt .

The Engelbrecht family from Ilsenburg was later ennobled with the names Engelbrecht and Engelbrechten .

Fonts

• Chronologia abbatum Ilsineburgensium , manuscript 1588, printed by Leibniz Script. rer. brunswicens. III. 684–690 (digitized version ) and Leuckfeld Antt. Poeldens. 217-240

literature

• Eduard Jacobs:  Engelbrecht, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 134. (Article on father and son)
• Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851. in: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 146/147

Web links

• The Engelbrecht family in Ilsenburg with a picture of the seal by Peter Engelbrecht

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Jacobs :  Engelbrecht, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 134.