Peter Lambeck

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Peter Lambeck, contemporary engraving by Johann Jacob Haid
Title page of a work by Peter Lambeck

Peter Lambeck (Latinized Lambeccius ; born April 13, 1628 in Hamburg , † April 4, 1680 in Vienna ) was a historian and librarian.

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Peter Lambeck was born the son of the teacher Heino Lambeck (1586–1661) and his wife, a born Holste. The mother was the sister of the famous convert and Vatican librarian Lukas Holste (Holstenius), the father worked as a schoolmaster at the Lutheran St. Jacobi Church School in Hamburg and wrote several textbooks for students.

Lambeck attended high school in his hometown Hamburg from 1644, went to Amsterdam at the end of 1645, later to Leiden and Paris . He decided to study law and went to Rome to his uncle, where he secretly turned to the Catholic faith as early as 1647. In 1649 he left the city and studied in Toulouse . On August 20, 1650, he received the degree of Doctor of Law in Bourges .

The lawyer returned to his hometown and was appointed Professor of History at the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium on December 2, 1651 . As a teacher and humanities scholar, he worked very deservingly and energetically here. After the death of Professor Joachim Jungius in 1659, he was given his position as rector of the institution for life, which he took up on January 12, 1660.

Ownership note and signature of the court library in the Vienna Dioscurides , registered by Lambeck

Because of statements leaning towards Catholicism in his "Origines Hamburgenses" he had to answer to the city council in 1661, whereupon he left Hamburg on April 25, 1662 before the matter was closed. His decision was made easier by an unhappy marriage he had recently entered into. Via Vienna, where he was received in audience by Emperor Leopold I on May 16 , he traveled on to Venice . From here he resigned all school offices in Hamburg by letter and traveled on to Rome. There he publicly converted to the Catholic Church , returned to Vienna on October 28, 1662, and took the oath of service as imperial historiographer and vice librarian on December 14. When the previous librarian of the court library, Matthäus Mauchter , gave up his position on May 26, 1663, Lambeck succeeded him. In August 1665 he accompanied the emperor, who often visited him in the library and distinguished him with his special grace, on a pilgrimage to Mariazell in Styria, which Lambeck described in the book "Diarium sacri itineris Cellensis" (Vienna 1660, 270 pp.) has described in detail. Another trip took him to Innsbruck at the side of the monarch, on which occasion he examined the book collection at Ambras Castle and arranged for around 2000 works - including many valuable manuscripts - to be transferred to the Vienna court library . Through this and other increase in holdings as well as better organization of the library, through a more detailed description of its treasures and the removal of some grievances, Peter Lambeck has achieved very important services there. For the historically very interested emperor, the librarian also looked after his antiques and coins. In 1676 he retired and the monarch rewarded him on this occasion with a gratuity of 5000 guilders, which he justified to his tax authorities with the words: "He is a very hard-working man and has deserved grace." (Hof -Financial Act of May 25, 1676.)

Lambeck himself owned a sizeable library in Hamburg, consisting of around 3,000 books and more than 200 valuable and rare Greek, Latin and German manuscripts, which he sent to the imperial library in Vienna for well below the price.

He died of dropsy in Vienna in 1680, which probably means diabetes . In his will, dated June 21, 1678, he appointed his housemates, the doctor of law and court attorney Peter Strellmayr with his wife, to be universal heirs and recommended them to the grace of his imperial master, as they “are more than filial love and patience “ Would have met.

Even in death he worries that from the legacy “all those books which undoubtedly belonged to the Kayserliche Hoff-Bibliothec before and still belong, besides the library keys and other library items belonging to them, are most beneficial and without delay Gentlemen who were deputized for this purpose were handed down, and the following immediately and without notice, so that nothing comes of it, are brought into the above-mentioned Kayserliche Hoff library, and which in turn may be incorporated. "

In addition, in his last will he thinks of the craftsmen who worked for the court library and who might be deprived of their wages: “In addition, I ask this in all subservience, if after my death, because of their involvement in your hope Books belonging to the library, as well as those of booksellers and book printers, or in some way in your services necessary and useful to your Majesty, nor any backward payment of debts would be found, the highest valued Imperial Majesty considering your own high honor, and to the Rescue of my honest name, such as will without delay and most graciously by your Cammer paymaster want to be paid and completely dismissed; all of which God Almighty Deroself, as I wish and ask from the bottom of my heart, will reward time and forever with a thousandfold blessings and grace. "

Works

  • Prodromus historiae literariae, et Tabula duplex chronographica universalis. Hamburgi, Sumptibus Autoris, 1659. Curante Jo. Alberto Fabricio […], Hamburgi 1710.
  • Commentarii de Augustiss. Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi, 8 volumes, 1665–79.
  • Petri Lambecii Hamburgensis Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi. Vienna, 1766–1782. 8 vols., Ed. by Adam F. Kollár.

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SURNAME Lambeck, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lambeccius (Latinized)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1628
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1680
Place of death Vienna