Valentin von Winther

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Valentin von Winter, oil painting by an unknown painter, 17th century.

Georg Valentin von Winther (born November 5, 1578 in Treptow an der Rega ; † March 16, 1623 in Stettin ; also Jürgen or Jurga Valentin Winter ) was an annalist and councilor at the court of Duke Philip II of Pomerania .

Life

The son of Treptow mayor Georg Winther attended the Greifswald city school in 1593 and the grammar school in Lübeck in 1595 . From 1595 he studied law at the University of Greifswald . From there he went to Wittenberg because of the outbreak of the plague in 1599 . Further stations during his studies were Leipzig, Erfurt, Jena, Marburg, Heidelberg and Strasbourg. At the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer , he gained his first insight into legal practice. He then traveled extensively to the Netherlands, England, France and Switzerland.

In 1606 he returned to Pomerania, where Duke Philip II took him into his service. As the successor to Heinrich Schwallenberg, he became ducal councilor, but had to acquire an academic degree for this and therefore received his doctorate in law at the University of Basel in 1608 . In 1608 and 1609 he accompanied Duke Georg II of Pomerania, a younger brother of Duke Philip II, on his trip to Italy. On this trip Winther acquired the small Palatinat in Padua in 1608 . After his return he married Clara von Grabow in 1610 .

In 1612 he negotiated with Polish negotiators in Poznan about shipping on the Warta . When Bogislaw XIV was courting Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein in 1614, he led the negotiations. In 1615 he became the capitular of St. Mary's Church in Szczecin and in the same year head ("Ephorus") of the Princely Pedagogy .

Pomeranographia

He was commissioned by Duke Philip II to write a chronicle of Pomerania. The work called Pomeranographia , Annales Pomeranici or Balthus Pomeranicus , for which he began preparatory work as early as 1613 and was able to use the duke's archives and library, should contain four parts. The first part was intended to describe the country, in the second the family history of the gryphon house was to be presented. A book of coats of arms of the Pomeranian nobility should form the third part. The Pomeranian cities should be dealt with in the fourth part. However, the work proved to be tedious and was severely affected by the Duke's death in 1618. After the death of Winter in 1623, the work was no longer continued.

The originals were likely lost in the 1830s. Some fragments in the form of copies have been preserved. Only a few excerpts were published in the 18th century by Franz Woken and Johann Carl Dähnert .

Other works

On the occasion of the wedding of Duke Philip II to Sophie von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg in 1607, Winther translated the piece Il pastor fido by the Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini from Italian into Latin. He enriched the piece with references to events that affected Pomerania and in particular Duke Philip II.

His work Parthenius litigiosus , published under the name Ventura de Valentiis , was placed on the index by the Catholic Church in 1613 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winther, Georg Valentin von. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 945 (French, digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Winther, Valentin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winther, Georg Valentin von; Winter, Valentin von; Winther, Jurga Valentin von; Winther, Jürgen Valentin from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pomeranian politician, ducal councilor, author of a description of the country
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1578
PLACE OF BIRTH Treptow at Rega
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1623
Place of death Szczecin