Sebastian Gercken
Sebastian Gercken (born June 15, 1656 in Magdeburg , † February 8, 1710 in Lübeck ) was a Lübeck mayor in the early 18th century.
Life
Gercken came from a Magdeburg council family and was the son of a lawyer in Magdeburg. He studied law at the University of Jena and then went on the then customary Grand Tour , which took him to France, England and the Netherlands. He then obtained his doctorate from the University of Greifswald in 1687. jur. His brother Georg Friedrich Gercken was already a lawyer in Lübeck and convinced Sebastian Gercken to also work in the Hanseatic city. In Lübeck he married in 1689 into the von Dassel family, who originally came from Lüneburg . In 1695 he was elected to the city council and in 1706 was appointed one of the four mayors. As envoy he represented the city in negotiations with Denmark on several occasions.
He was buried in his grave chapel in the south aisle of the Katharinenkirche , which has been preserved together with the epitaph located there.
Of his five surviving children, his son Georg Heinrich Gercken (1690–1744) was initially a council secretary and protonotary as a lawyer, and from 1735 also Lübeck councilor.
literature
- Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 34 ( digitized version )
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.820.
Individual evidence
- ^ A granddaughter of the Lübeck councilor Albrecht von Dassel , cf. Fehling, Council Line, No. 777.
- ↑ Complete text of the portal inscription with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 174 ff. ISBN 3795004756
- ↑ Fehling: Council Line, No. 867.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gercken, Sebastian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1656 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1710 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |