Philipp Ludwig Probst
Philipp Ludwig Probst (also Philipp Ludwig Probst von Wendhausen ; born March 25, 1633 in Gandersheim ; † November 17, 1718 in Braunschweig ) was a basic scholar, princely Brunswick-Lüneburg Prime Minister, Chancellor and state syndic as well as hereditary lord of Wendhausen , Schöningen and Riddagshausen .
family
Philipp Ludwig Probst was the son of Georg Wilhelm Probst, the senior and canonicus of the old Gandersheim monastery as well as Erbsasse zu Rimrode and Dorothea Elisabeth, née. Steinbringk, the daughter of Heinrich Steinbringk, who was Oberamtmann in Schöningen between 1595 and 1604.
Philipp Ludwig Probst was married three times: first from 1660 to Barbara Ilse, b. Flüwerk († 1696), she was the mother of his only daughter Dorothea Elisabeth (* May 12, 1662 Braunschweig; † August 5, 1686 Braunschweig). In 1698 he married Christine Erdmuthe von Sperling († 1698); In 1699 he finally married his last wife, Marie Elisabeth Freiin von Imhoff († 1709). His only daughter Dorothea Elisabeth married the Brunswick court and consistorial councilor Joachim Christoph Stisser in 1684 .
Life
Philipp Ludwig Probst lost his father at the age of two and a half. He was one of the first students to attend the Anna-Sophianeum, founded in 1639 by the Duchess Anna Sophia (1598–1629) in Schöningen . From 1650 he attended the University of Helmstedt and studied law and history. He traveled to the Netherlands, England and France, studied in Leyden , Cambridge , Oxford , Orléans and Geneva , went to Strasbourg and Speyer and received his doctorate in 1658 in Helmstedt. jur.
In 1660 he was appointed to the state syndic and in 1669 entered the personal service of Duke Anton Ulrich as a councilor . In 1674 he worked in the commission for the integration of the city of Braunschweig into the state administration. In 1680 he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. In 1682 the dukes Rudolf August and Anton Ulrich donated the Wendhausen estate to him for his services. Between 1663 and 1668 he had Wendhausen Castle built, and in 1683 Emperor Leopold raised him to the nobility under the name of "Probst von Wendhausen ".
He found his final resting place in the crypt of the Brunswick Cathedral .
literature
- Paul Zimmermann : Probst of Wendhausen, Philipp Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 619 f.
- Karlwilhelm Just: The Central German Stisser family from 1480 to the present. CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1965.
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: Probst (von Wendhausen), Philipp Ludwig. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent et al. (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 566 f.
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| SURNAME | Probst, Philipp Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Probst of Wendhausen, Philipp Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princely Brunswick-Lüneburg Prime Minister and Chancellor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1633 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gandersheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1718 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |