Zacharias Prueschenck from Lindenhofen

Zacharias Prueschenck von Lindenhofen , (born January 20, 1610 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg , † May 3, 1678 in Eisenach ) was a German legal scholar , statesman and minister .

Life

Born the son of a farmer and collecting taxes on property Lindhof in Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate, was the gifted and talented son with the support of Palatine court officials Zacharias Staudner , a close friend of the family, the education of Neuburg an der Donau sent and studied from 1628 Law on of the University of Altdorf . Due to the onset of religious persecution of the Lutherans , he continued his studies at the University of Jena , where he received his doctorate in law in 1635 and in the same year took over a professorship at the law faculty of Jena University, which he held for five years; In 1641 he went to the court of Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar as a councilor . He stayed for this 1653 as envoy to the Reichstag of Regensburg . In June 1645 he was appointed ducal governor for Eisenach and entrusted with the administration of the Eisenach part of the country. He was knighted in 1654 for his numerous services to the reconstruction of the war-torn city. In the same year he also received the princely estate in Berka in front of the Hainich from the sovereign as a hereditary fief.

In 1644 he was accepted into the Fruitful Society under the name The Benefactor .

family

Prueschenck was married three times: The first wife was Gertrud Romanus from Mockershausen near Braunschweig († 1635); the second wife was Anna Katharina , the daughter of Friedrich Hortleder ; he entered into his third marriage with Leveke von Kampen auf Staub und Bogenhagen , she was the widow of a cavalry colonel from Eisenberg in Swedish service and was called Ludovica . Prueschenck had three children in Jena:

• Christian Friedrich Prueschenck , born on May 26, 1639, was named Eisenach Hofrat in 1665 and, like his father, was a trained lawyer.
• Karl Friedrich Prueschenck , born on August 28, 1642
• Sigmund Heinrich Prueschenck died in childbed on April 16, 1644.

literature

• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart:  Prüschenk v. Lindenhofen, Zacharias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 676 f.
• Fritz Rollberg: Zacharias Prueschenck from Lindenhofen and on Berka in front of the Hainich. In: The Thuringian Flag. Monthly booklets for the Central German homeland, 3rd vol. Issue 3, March 1934, pp. 186–192.
• Herbert Koch: Zacharias Prueschenck of Lindenhofen. Family history supplements. In: The Thuringian Flag. Monthly issues for the Central German homeland, 4th vol. Issue 4, April 1935, pp. 253-254.