Philipp Wilhelm von Boineburg

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Philipp Wilhelm Reichsgraf and noble lord zu Boineburg and Lengsfeld (born November 22, 1656 in Mainz , † February 23, 1717 in Erfurt ) was the seventh Elector of Mainz governor of Erfurt .

Philipp Wilhelm comes from the Boyneburg family . He was the son of the diplomat, librarian and polyhistor Johann Christian von Boyneburg (1622–1672). He visited Strasbourg in 1671 and stayed in Paris from 1672 with his mentor Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . After his return to Mainz in 1677 , he became a dragoon officer. The Mainz envoy Gudenus ordered Philipp Wilhelm to Vienna in 1689 . In 1691 he was appointed Reichshofrat by the Emperor . On February 25, 1697, he became imperial count and noble lord of Boineburg and Lengsfeld with the predicate high and well-born. The document (Gratialarchiv Vienna VB 1068) attests that Emperor Leopold I is thus elevating himself to the rank of old count and combines this with the unusual and rare Adoptandi privilege, which endows both men and women in the family with it and for eternity added to the honor and dignity of the old imperial counts and countesses as long as the Boineburg / Boyneburg / Bemelberg family exists.

At the same time he was the owner of the hereditary Great Palatine, which his father Johann Christian Freiherr von Boyneburg zu Dietzenbach and Breidenbach, imperial judge, Electorate Mainz Privy Councilor and Oberhofmarschall, was granted by Emperor Leopold I in a privilege from 1653 September 1 (Regensburg the first day of September after Christ, our dear Lord and soul maker, born in the sixteenth hundred and three and fiftieth years) in the form of the office of palatine and court count. (Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, HStAM \ Urk. 75 \ 2391)

On August 8, 1702 Boineburg was appointed governor of Erfurt ; he took this office on March 9, 1703. Erfurt was ravaged by the plague in 1683 , which killed more than 60% of the population. Boineburg was particularly committed to remedying the grievances in the administration. He initiated measures to stimulate trade and industry, which was also in the interests of the Electoral Mainz state treasury. At the University of Erfurt , he founded a new, Catholic professorship for history and moral philosophy . During his time in office, the Erfurt Waage (now the Angermuseum ) and the Kurmainzische Lieutenancy were established in Government Street.

In 1705 Boineburg became rector of the Erfurt University. He gave her the library of his father Johann Christian von Boineburg; today it is owned by the Erfurt City and Regional Library . He made his son the first director of this library. The library catalog was created by Leibniz. In 1723, a building for the library in Mainzer Hofstrasse was built with the capital of Boineburg. This burned down in 1899, the splendid “Boineburg Portal” was saved and became the property of the Municipal Museum. In 1935 the portal was installed in the library building behind the Collegium Maius . Since 2010 it has been in a new glass building of the regional church office of the Evangelical Church of Central Germany and is often difficult to see from the outside due to mirror effects.

After his death in 1717 Boineburg was buried in the court church of the governor, the Wigbertikirche .

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SURNAME Boineburg, Philipp Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyneburg, Philipp Wilhelm von; Boineburg, Philipp Wilhelm Reichsgraf to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reich count, Erfurt governor, rector
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1717
Place of death Erfurt