Thomas Lindemann (the elder)

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Thomas Lindemann
(In: Ernst Joachim von Westphalen : Monumenta Inedita Rerum Germanicarum Praecipue Cimbricarum Et Megapolensium… T. 3. Leipzig 1743, after Sp. 1382.)

Thomas Lindemann , called the Elder (born September 28, 1570 in Herford , † March 14, 1632 in Rostock ) was a German jurist , university professor and rector.

Life

Thomas Lindemann was born as the son of the brewer Heinrich Lindemann and his wife Anna Kirchof. He attended the Herford city school until he was 17. In 1592 he began studying law at the University of Rostock and was also a private tutor. In 1596 he went to the University of Strasbourg for three years as a preceptor on behalf of the Lübeck Chancellor Jakob Bording with his two step-sons Bernhard and Heinrich Wedemhof (later councilor and mayor of Lübeck) . Here he disputed together with his protégés under Georg Obrecht and then went with them on an educational trip that led to England, France and Italy. In Padua he was already the syndic of the "German Nation" and disputed as president .

In 1605 Lindemann was appointed to the University of Rostock, where he was appointed full professor of law at the Faculty of Law as the successor to the late Heinrich Camerarius . On June 13th, 1605 he was appointed professor by Ernst Cothmann to Dr. iur. utr. PhD. Between 1607 and 1632 he held the position of rector eight times .

Thomas Lindemann's knowledge was highly valued by the northern German regents, for example by Johann Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Archbishop of Bremen, by Duke August I (Braunschweig-Lüneburg) or by Duke Adolf Friedrich I (Mecklenburg) as Council requested. For his services he was honored with the title of council and appointed imperial court palatinate "Comes palatinus Caesareus". In 1621 he was also appointed city councilor of Rostock. In this role he was u. a. as early as 1621 with a delegation from the council to negotiate Hanseatic customs issues with Christian IV of Denmark.

Thomas Lindemann died in 1632 during his eighth term of office as " Rector magnificus ". The funeral speech of the law faculty was given by Albert Hein . His portrait is in Ernst Joachim von Westphalen's Monumenta Inedita Rerum Germanicarum Praecipue Cimbricarum, Et Megapolensium (1743).

family

Thomas Lindemann was married from 1605 to Ursula Scharffenberg (1585–1614), the daughter of Rostock councilor Bernhard Scharffenberg (1544–1619) and his wife Agneta, née. Beselin (1563-1624). After her death, he was married to Elisabeth Hahn, the daughter of Bernhard Hahn and his wife Elisabeth, born in 1616. Clings. He had 12 children from both women, nine of whom survived their father. Known children were:

  • Thomas d. J. (1609-1645), Theologian, ord. Prof. in Rostock (1635), pastor of the German congregation in Copenhagen (1638) and Canon in Roskilde (1645).
  • Bernhard (1610–1669), lawyer, respondent in Wittenberg (1631) and Rostock (1652), protonotarius and senator in Rostock
  • Joachim (1617–1669), archdeacon [= archdeacon] of the Marienkirche in Rostock
  • Agneta (1622-1640)
  • Albert (1629-1646)

A brother of Thomas Lindemann was the Rostock citizen Heinrich Lindemann (1580–1625).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Correction of the date 1570 according to "Additions and Corrections" to the ADB article. All other sources name 1575 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ Entry summer semester 1593, No. 13 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ a b 28: 728822L in VD 17 .
  4. ↑ Something about learned Rostock things ... 1740, p. 360 ff. (See literature)
  5. ↑ Entry summer semester 1605, No. 1 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  6. ↑ 28: 728820V in VD 17 .
personal data
SURNAME Lindemann, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindemann, Thomas the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jurist, university professor and rector
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1570
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1632
Place of death Rostock