Samuel Bourdon

Samuel Bourdon (born February 14, 1631 in Kassel ; † March 6, 1688 ibid) was mayor of Kassel.

Bourdon was the son of the Metz merchant Thomas Bourdon (1606–1640) and his wife Anna Matzja Werner (1611–1638), the daughter of the councilor Kaspar Werner in Kassel. The father had fled France as a Huguenot and had been a member of the Hansegrebengilde in Kassel since 1628.

Bourdon married Magareth Wiegand (1642–1674), the daughter of Chamberlain Kaspar Wiegand, on April 19, 1659 in Kassel. After the death of his first wife, he married Elisabeth Müldener (1652–1722), the daughter of Vice Chancellor Nikolaus Christoph Müldener, on February 23, 1675 in Kassel . From 1645 he studied law in Kassel, from 1651 in Bremen and from 1654 in Marburg. At the University of Marburg he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. In addition to his studies, he served in the French army as a cadet in 1647/48 and took up positions as court master in East Frisia, Pomerania and Holland.

In 1666 he was commissioner for land visits and in 1667 council cabinet in Kassel. From 1667 to 1669 he was mayor of Kassel. In this function he defended the urban rights against claims of the sovereign. In 1673 he became a councilor and advocatus fisci in Kassel. From 1667 he belonged to the Hansegrebengilde.

literature

• Georg Wannagat (Ed.): Kassel as the city of lawyers and the courts in their thousand-year history , 1990, ISBN 978-3-452-21555-0 , p. 385.