Philipp Manecke

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Philipp Manecke (also: Philippus Maneke and Philipp Mahnke ; born February 9, 1638 in Boitzenburg ; died March 9, 1707 in Lüneburg ) was a German lawyer , town councilor and chronicler .

Life

Born in the Uckermark , Philipp Manecke comes from an old noble family from Lower Saxony, which Eduartus de Manecke can prove as early as 1370 . He was a descendant of the family around Urban Friedrich Christoph Manecke (1745-1827) and a son of the Boitzenburg mayor Laurentz Manecke zu Boitzenburg in Mecklenburg or the councilor, mayor and pledgee of Boizenburg Lorentz Manecke in Brandenburg, also known as "juris consultis" .

In the middle of the Thirty Years War , Boitzenburg was occupied by foreign troops, which is why Manecke's mother fled to Boitzenburg Castle with her toddler in 1844 . From there, the two fled to Hamburg overnight . The Boitzenburg Castle was blown up shortly afterwards on July 28th of that year, certain Manecke's relatives the pupil, bearing in mind the danger they had overcome for the profession of a clergyman .

In April 1656 "Philipp Maneke" enrolled at the University of Rostock , where he initially studied theology until 1657. From 1658 he studied at the University of Wittenberg , where he switched to law. From 1660 he continued to study law in Rostock. In 1664 he went on an educational trip to the Netherlands, England and France. In the same year he returned, became Lower Saxony district auditor for the cavalry intended for Hungary and went with them to Hungary as a result of the Turkish war at the time . There he attended the battle of St. Gotthard . After the Treaty of Eisenburg , Manecke was to accompany the imperial ambassador, Count Walter Leslie, from Hungary to Constantinople , the capital of the Ottoman Empire . However, an illness prevented Manecke from traveling.

In 1665 Manecke traveled to Denmark and Sweden and then worked for a short time in Lübeck in 1665 . From 1668 he went on a legation trip to Finland, Livonia and finally to Moscow , from where he did not return to his home country until 1670 and from the same year first stayed in Lüneburg .

Soon after, traveled Manecke "for his own pleasure" in the Netherlands, where he then but at the University of Franeker to Dr. jur. PhD. The governor of West Friesland, Prince Wilhelm Friedrich, attended his disputation .

After a short stay in Lüneburg , Philipp Manecke went to Hanover in 1675 , where he initially worked as a lawyer. There he married Elisabeth Duve (1658–1688) from the family of the merchant and banker Johann Duve on January 18, 1676 and bought the so-called " Duvesche Haus " on the town's market.

In 1680 Manecke took over the duties of the City Syndic of Hanover. Around four years later he ran for election as mayor in 1684 , but failed and was defeated by Anton Levin von Wintheim , who came from a long -established merchant family . Finally, in 1686, Manecke was dismissed from his office as city counsel.

During the twelve years of his stay in Hanover, Manecke wrote, among other things, several manuscripts, including the manuscript of the Hannövrischer Jahrbücher first, second and third part, which was completed in 1684, as well as the writing Strange Things and Thorough News of the City and Princely Residence of Hanover, completed in 1686 des Fürstentum Braunschweig-Lüneburg ... These two writings in particular are "important as a supplement and continuation of older chronicles" and found their way into the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library . Manecke also earned services to the systematic organization of the city registry and the city ​​archive of Hanover .

In 1692 Manecke finally moved to Lüneburg, where he spent his old age.

Fonts (selection)

Philipp Manecke published several legal and theological disputations and treatises, some of them under his pseudonym Sincerus Warmund . Among other things, he wrote a congratulatory letter on the wedding day of his parents and a congratulations on the wedding day of the Boizenburg cantor Christian Winkelmann.

  • Dissertationum Academicarum De Theologia Abstractiva, qt. Rationi Possibilis, Dissertatio Quarta , Quam Ex Suffragio Amplissimae & Nobilissimae Facultatis Philosophicae in praeillustri Academia Rostochiensi Publico Philosophantium Scrutinio exponunt M. Theodorus Iordan, Praeses & Philippus, Maneke, Boitzenburg: Mecklenburgicus, Respondens, Ad diemidiani Inis IV. Rostochii Richelius Rostock, Rostock University Library 1657; Digitized from the University of Rostock
  • Schertz and congratulatory lines / Auff the wedding honor day Des ... Hn. Lorentz Maneken Rahtsverwandten the city of Boitzenburg on / and the Der ... Jf. Sophia Elisabeth Gutzmers Des ... Hn. Michaelis Gutzmers ... daughter on the other side, Alß the same April 22nd. of the 1667th year ... was held in Boitzenburg. Set up and presented by Philipp. Maneken , Lübeck: Schmalhertzens Erben, 1667
  • Congratulatory acclamation / On the wedding day of honor of [...] Mr. Christiani Winkelmannes / The schools in Boitzenburg, the ordained and loyal Cantoris , Ratzeburg: Nissen 1667
  • Hanoverian yearbooks first, second and third Theill , manuscript, Hanover [until 1684]
  • Strange things and thorough reports from the city and Princely Residence of Hanover, including the Principality of Braunschweig-Lüneburg ... , manuscript [until 1686]

Maneckestrasse

In 1925, Maneckestrasse, which ran from Berckhusenstrasse to Sievertstrasse, was laid out in the Hanoverian district of Kleefeld and named after the city syndic and chronicler.

literature

  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Manecke (Philipp) , in that: Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present time, and made themselves known to the learned world, Their birth, life, remarkable stories, deaths and writings are described in alphabetical order from the most credible scribes . Volume 3, Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig, 1751; Digitized via Google books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o. V .: Böttcher, Alfred in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 7, 2006, last accessed on July 8, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Information in the matriculation portal of the University of Rostock
  3. ^ A b c d e f g h Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: Manecke (Philipp) , in ders .: Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon ... , 1751, column 103-104; Digitized via Google books
  4. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Manecke, Urban Friedrich Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 182.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Stephan Sehlke: Das Geistige Boizenburg. Education and the educated in and from the Boizenburg area from the 13th century to 1945 , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8448-4185-5 and ISBN 978-3-8448-0423-2 , p. 294; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus Mlynek : Manecke, Philipp , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 245
  7. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Wintheim (Windheim), von , in Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 391
  8. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Maneckestraße , in ibid .: The street name of the state capital of Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 168
personal data
SURNAME Manecke, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maneke, Philip; Mahnke, Philipp; Warmund, Sincerus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German city syndic of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH Boitzenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1707
Place of death Luneburg