Tobias Olfen

"Tobias Olfen's, a Brunswick councilor, history books of the city of Brunswick", Carl Friedrich von Vechelde (Ed.), 1832.

Tobias Olfen (also: Olffen; * August 9, 1597 in Braunschweig ; † September 25, 1654 ibid) was Braunschweig's mayor and chronicler .

Life

Tobias Olfen was a son of the merchant Wilhelm Olfen, who moved from Dortmund to Braunschweig, and his wife Ester Rittershausen († 1609 in Braunschweig (Pest)), the daughter of the canon and senior of the St. Blasi monastery in Braunschweig, Balthasar Rittershusius. After attending the local Latin school, Olfen frequented the St. Martinisch school in his hometown. In 1616 he moved to the University of Helmstedt and two years later the University of Altdorf , where he lived with his uncle Professor Konrad Rittershausen . In 1623 he went on an educational trip to Geneva with two patricians from Nuremberg , where he stayed for a year.

The following year he traveled to France, where he stayed in Lyon and Paris and learned the French language. After returning to Braunschweig in 1625, he became secretary of the “ narrow council ”, and from 1631 he was elected councilor of the soft picture of the old town . Olfen was the court lord of the old town from 1632 to 1636, the minor mayor in 1642 and the major mayor from 1643 to 1653. In addition, in 1642 he was appointed provisional assistant to the B. Mariae Hospital. In 1654 he was elected lord of the castle and pharmacist. On October 1st, 1654 he was buried in the Martini church in Brunswick .

plant

Olfen is the author of a handwritten chronicle preserved in the Braunschweig City Archives , which includes the city history of Braunschweig from its origins to 1648. The chronicle was continued, among others, by the mayor of the Weichbildes Sack and his brother Balthasar Olfen . In 1832 , the private scholar Friedrich Karl von Vechelde (1801–1846) published an insufficiently edited partial edition of the chronicle, which only began in 1528 .

family

Olfen was married twice. His first marriage was in 1626 with Lucia Jüten († 1636), widow of the pastor at the Magnikirche Georgius Oedingus (born June 28, 1559 in Celle; † January 18, 1625 in Braunschweig), daughter of the treasurer of the soft picture Altewiek Ludolph Jüten. The marriage resulted in two sons and four daughters. From the children we know:

1. Ilse Olffen († young)
2. Tobias Olffen
3. Conrad Olffen († young)
4. Dorothea Olffen married 1651 with the pastor in Wegeleben author Stein
5. Anna Olffen
6. Magdalena Olffen

His second marriage was on December 5, 1637 with Euphrosina Hahn (born November 3, 1603 in Magdeburg), widow of the pastor in Braunschweig Daniel Mönchmeyer (born November 27, 1582 in Groß-Salze; † June 6, 1635 in Braunschweig) , Daughter of pastor Philipp Hahn . There are also children from the marriage. We know of these:

1. Johann Philip Olffen
2. Caspar Olffen
3. Jacob Olffen († young)
4. Euphrosyna Olffen († young)

literature

• Manfred RW Garzmann : Olfen, Tobias. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 538 .
• Manfred RW Garzmann: Tobias Olffen (Olfe and Olfen) (1643–1654). In: Henning Steinführer , Claudia Böhler (Hrsg.): The Braunschweiger Mayors. From the establishment of the office in the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. oeding print GmbH, Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-941737-68-6 , pp. 181-185.
• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Olfen, Tobias. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 173 .
• Hans Jürgen Querfurth: The submission of the city of Braunschweig in 1671 - the end of the Braunschweig city freedom. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Volume 16), orphanage book printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1953.
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Boppard / Rhein, 1959, vol. 1, p. 344, R 637.
• Werner Spieß : History of the city of Braunschweig in the post-Middle Ages . From the end of the Middle Ages to the end of urban freedom 1491–1671. 2 volumes. Orphanage printing and publishing house, Braunschweig 1966, OCLC 7495150 .
• Werner Spieß: The councilors of the Hanseatic city of Braunschweig 1231–1671. In: Braunschweiger workpieces. Volume 5 and Volume 42, Braunschweig 1970.
• Friedrich Karl von Vechelde : Tobias Olfen's, a Brunswick councilor, history books of the city of Brunswick. Braunschweig 1832 ( full text ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Spieß : The councilors of the Hanseatic city of Braunschweig 1231–1671. In: Braunschweiger workpieces. Volume 5 and Volume 42, 2nd edition, Braunschweig 1970, p. 174.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tobias Olfen in the catalog of the German National Library