Sebastian from Bergen

Sebastian Bergen, copper engraving by Christian Fritzsch (1599)

Sebastian von Bergen , also Sebastianus a Bergen (* 1554 in Hamburg ; † October 24, 1623 ibid) was a German lawyer, statesman and Hamburg mayor .

Life

After visiting the Gelehrtenschule the Johanneum in Hamburg in 1575 he moved into the University of Leiden ( Holland ) to law to study, went in 1578 to the University of Rostock and studied from 1580 at the University of Wittenberg . Here he was entrusted with an extraordinary legal professorship at the university by the Saxon Elector August 1584 after a brilliantly passed licentiate examination in law (1583) .

In 1585 he was called back to Hamburg as State Secretary , where he worked as an envoy in state affairs at foreign courts. These took him to the court of Elizabeth I in England , in 1599 to Henry IV in France , in 1603 to King Christian IV in Denmark , in 1604 to King Jacob I in England and in 1605 to Sweden . He also took part in the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1608 . The negotiations he led led to the detachment of Hamburg, which was striving for a position as an internationally neutral staging area in north-western Europe, from the German Hanseatic League .

In 1601 he was councilor in Hamburg and in 1614 mayor of the city. In 1610 he founded an extensive collection for the library of the Johanneum, today's Hamburg State and University Library , and wanted to donate a larger sum to it in his will. Bergen also wrote various writings during his time.

Sebastian von Bergen was married to Margaretha Moller. After his death she married the philologist Friedrich Lindenbrog .

Works

• 32 Theses de jure testium , Wittenberg 1583
• Disputations II de tutela et cura , Wittenberg 1583 and 1584
• Disputationes IV de donationibus et testamentis subjectae explicationi instrutitutionum imperialium , Wittenberg 1584

Further writings are listed in the Hamburg writer lexicon

literature

• Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Klose :  Bergen, Sebastian von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 368 f.
• Heinrich Reincke:  Bergen, Sebastian von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 78 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hans-Walter Stork: Bergen, Sebastian von . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 25-26 .

Web links

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