Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff

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Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff (copper engraving by Martin Bernigeroth)
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Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff (* December 20, 1626 in Herzogenaurach , † December 18, 1692 in Halle (Saale) ) was a scholar and statesman. He is considered to be the main representative of older German cameralism .

Life

Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, copy of an original picture in the destroyed Meuselwitz Castle near Altenburg (copy: Wilhelm Karl Junker)

Veit Ludwig, the son of Colonel Joachim Ludwig von Seckendorff (see also Seckendorff ), who was beheaded by the Swedes for treason in 1642 , studied jurisprudence, philosophy, history and theology in Strasbourg , and joined Ernst I. von in 1645 as a supervisor of the ducal library Saxe-Gotha (the "Pious"), became a Gotha court and judicial councilor in 1651, a secret court and chamber councilor as well as court judge in Jena and in 1663 a real secret councilor and chancellor. In 1664 he entered the service of Duke Moritz von Sachsen-Zeitz as a privy councilor, chancellor and consistorial president .

He resigned his offices completely in 1681 (with two exceptions) and devoted himself to his scientific and literary work on the Meuselwitz estate near Altenburg he acquired in 1676 . He had Meuselwitz Castle rebuilt in 1677. (From 1724 to 1727 it was converted into a four-wing complex for Imperial Count Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff , probably by the Leipzig master builder David Schatz ).

Shortly before the end of his life, he was once again appointed privy councilor to the court of Friedrich III. to come to Berlin and become founding chancellor of the University of Halle in 1692. A short time after he arrived in Halle - only a dispute settlement of his work here is recorded in November of the same year - he died there.

Under the name The Helpful , he was accepted into the Fruitful Society in 1654 .

He was married to Elisabeth Juliana von Vippbach (1621–1685) and after her death with Sophia von Ende (1653–1710). None of his children reached adulthood.

Works

According to a research from 2017 on influential economic literature from before 1850, The German Princely State can be seen as the beginning of German economic literature.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik S. Reinert et al: 80 Economic Bestsellers before 1850: A Fresh Look at the History of Economic Thought. May 2017. (developingeconomics.files.wordpress.com ; English)
personal data
SURNAME Seckendorff, Veit Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scholar and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1626
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenaurach near Erlangen
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1692
Place of death Halle (Saale)