Sebastian Glaser

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Sebastian Glaser (born January 1, 1520 in Eisfeld , † April 9, 1577 in Schleusingen ) was a Henneberg chancellor and historian.

Life

Coming from a humble background, Glaser studied from 1536 at the University of Wittenberg , where he was supported primarily by Philipp Melanchthon . After he got his baccalaureate , he became a teacher in Schleusingen. Nevertheless, he continued his studies in 1543 and acquired the degree of master's degree in 1545 .

In 1547 he went back to Schleusingen as a councilor for the county of Henneberg , where he was made chancellor in 1550 and, after the departure of governor Melchior von Ossa , became the county's leading statesman from 1553. So he represented 1547/48; In 1550/51, 1559 and 1566 the county on the Reichstag in Augsburg enforced the imperial enfeoffment of the county of Henneberg-Römhild and wrote a genealogical treatise by the Counts of Henneberg.

Domestically, he was faced with an extremely bad financial situation, which he initially sought to improve with a treaty of inheritance with the Prince of Wettin . He also promoted economy in the county, wrote a Henneberg Chronicle and occasionally Latin poems. As an assessor at the newly formed marriage court, he ensured order in church assets, in schools and in hospitals.

Selection of works

  • True genealogy of the prince counts and lords of Henneberg, 1568, 1583
  • Rapsodiae sive Chron. Hennebergicum 1078-1559, Meiningen 1755

literature

personal data
SURNAME Glaser, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Henneberg chancellor and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH Ice field
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1577
Place of death Schleusingen