Wilhelm Burchard Sistine

Wilhelm Burchard Sixtinus (* 1572 in Marburg ; † 1652 in Hameln ) was a German lawyer and civil servant, 1632–1634 Hessian Chancellor in the Reichsstift Fulda occupied by Hessen-Kassel as the “Principality of Buchen” , 1640–1652 Chancellor of the Hessian county of Schaumburg .

Life

He was the eldest son of the legal scholar Regner Sixtinus (1543–1617), who taught at the University of Marburg from 1568 to 1591 , and his wife Elisabeth born. Sascher. Little is known about his school and study days, most of which took place in Marburg. After studying law , a. a. at the University of Heidelberg , he went on a long trip abroad that took him to France and Italy; there he also studied in Siena . After that, like his father around 30 years earlier, he worked for a while at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer , and finally he received his doctorate in both rights .

His father, since 1594 Privy Councilor of Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel , then turned to the Landgrave for the appointment of the professorship , which had become vacant in 1603 due to the death of the Marburg legal scholar Philipp Matthäus . Instead, however, he became "Professor iuris" (law professor) at the Collegium Mauritianum in Kassel in 1604 .

In 1609, Landgrave Moritz appointed him to his secret council , which acted as the State Ministry , where he was primarily entrusted with foreign affairs. With the beginning of the Thirty Years' War this became a difficult position, as the Landgrave made himself an enemy of Emperor Ferdinand II , acted increasingly erratic, and also fell out with the knights and the estates because of the high costs of the war. Under the pressure of increasing external and internal difficulties, he was increasingly at odds with his councilors. In 1621, Sixtinus traveled to Korbach with Oberhofmarschall Ernst von Börstel to settle the dispute between the city and Count Wolrad IV von Waldeck for the benefit of the Landgrave, but then fell out of favor with his employer. After another difference of opinion between Moritz and his councilors, he and two colleagues, Friedrich von Scholley and Liborius Sartorius, were dismissed by the Landgrave and expelled from the city of Kassel that same evening.

Sixtinus left Hesse and was then from 1623 to 1628 syndic of the cathedral chapter at Bremen Cathedral .

Only after Landgrave Moritz's abdication was forced by the Hessian estates in 1627 , he was reappointed to the Kassel civil service by his son and successor Wilhelm V in 1628 and appointed to the Privy Council . (His younger brother Nikolaus Sixtinus , Vice- Ephorus of the Collegium Mauritianum since 1622 and overseer of the landgrave princes who trained there, was also appointed by the new regent as a secret council.) When Landgrave Wilhelm occupied the area of ​​the imperial abbey of Fulda in 1632 and with the consent of the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna took possession of the so-called Principality of Buchen , Sixtinus was appointed commissioner for the occupation and in August of that year became Chancellor in Fulda. When the Landgrave had to vacate the area after the Battle of Nördlingen on September 6, 1634, Sistine returned to Kassel.

When the Grafschaft Schaumburg was divided between the Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel and the Grafschaft Lippe in 1640 after the death of Count Otto V , Sistine became Hessian Chancellor of the Hessian County Schaumburg .

He died in Hameln in 1652 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ In 1595, Landgrave Moritz converted his Pageschool into a court school for aristocrats and citizens. From this, in 1598/99 the "Collegium Mauritianum", called the high school, arose.
2. ↑ The city and the count had been in dispute since 1615 because of the occupation of the city judge's position, which encouraged Landgrave Moritz to claim not only the feudal rule but also the sovereignty over Waldeck. In 1621 he even had troops march into Waldeck, which, however, had to leave the occupied country again on the orders of the emperor.
3. ^ Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Seventh Volume, Kassel, 1858, p. 384
4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Fifteenth volume, Griesbach, Cassel, 1806, p. 26
5. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: History of the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen. Kaiser, Bremen, 1829, p. 207
6. ^ Johann Christian Lünig: Das deutsche Reichs-Archiv, Volume 10, P. 68
7. ↑ Landgrave Wilhelm received the area on June 2, 1633 from the Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna as a Swedish imperial fief. ( Joseph Goeßmann: Contributions to the history of the former principality of Fulda. Fulda, 1857, p. 184 )

literature

• Georg Winter :  Sistine, Wilhelm Burchard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 442 f.