Simon Malsius

Simon Malsius , since 1623 Malsius von Malschen (born April 25, 1585 in Brotterode , † April 18, 1648 in Halle ), was a German lawyer and chancellor under various absolutist rulers of small German states within the Holy Roman Empire . Later he was raised to court palatinate count .

biography

Malsius was the son of an ironmonger and practiced after the 1601 to 1604 operated studying law in Jena , Wittenberg and Leipzig and the promotion of Dr. iur. in Basel (1607) initially as a lawyer in Leipzig . His brother was the pastor and later Magdeburg superintendent Johannes Malsius (1574-1638).

In 1620 Count Anton Günther called him to Oldenburg as a councilor . Malsius worked for Anton-Günter until 1626 and in 1629, mainly because of the Weser toll, on numerous legation trips that took him to various European capitals and the capitals of the German electors and several times to Celle , Zerbst , Coswig , Münster , Regensburg and Prague led. According to his own statements, he traveled over 5,000 miles . During his trip to the imperial court in Vienna in 1623 he was given confirmation of nobility (as Malsius von Malschen ) and an improvement in the coat of arms. Count Anton Günther later transferred him to Jever as a district judge .

In 1630 Malsius resigned from the service of the County of Oldenburg because the maritime climate was not conducive to him. Supported by his second father-in-law, the Magdeburg Chancellor Kilian Stisser , he then switched to the services of the administrator of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg in Halle, where he became Vice Chancellor in 1634 and Chancellor in 1635. From 1638 to 1645 he was the Privy Councilor and Chancellor of the Duke of Saxony-Eisenach in Eisenach . Then he went back to Halle and was finally appointed to the Anhalt-Zerbst council from the outset , whereby the family connection between the Anhalt-Zerbst house and the Oldenburg house was certainly helpful. In 1646 he again offered the Count of Oldenburg his mediation services with Thuringian ambassadors during the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia in Osnabrück, to promote the Oldenburg claims to the Weser tariff.

Malsius was also appointed Count Palatinate ( Comes Palatinus ).

family

After the death of his first wife Anna geb. Koppen († 1625), the daughter of a Torgau councilor, he married in 1626 in Torgau Anna Maria Stisser (1605–1668), the daughter of the Magdeburg Chancellor Kilian Stisser (1562–1620). From this connection came the daughter Christina Margarethe Malsius (1631–1681), who was married to Friedrich Wilhelm Leyser , Protestant theologian and preacher of the cathedral in Magdeburg. The other daughter Dorothea Malsius (1642–1679) married the evangelical theologian and hymn poet Johann Gottfried Olearius .

literature

• Harald Schieckel: Malsius, Simon. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 432 ( online ).

Web links

• Entry by Simon Malsius in the catalog of the German National Library