Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff

Veit Ludwig von Seckendorf (* December 20, 1626 in Herzogenaurach, Germany, † December 18, 1692 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a scholar and statesman. He is regarded as the main representative of the older German cameralism.

Life

The son of the beheaded for treason in 1642 by the Swedish Supreme Joachim Ludwig von Seckendorf (see also Seckendorf ), studied in Strasbourg jurisprudence, philosophy, history and theology and entered 1645 as overseer of the ducal library in the services of Ernst I of Saxe- Gotha ( the "pious " ), was built between 1651 gothaischer Court and Judicial Council, 1656 Secret Court and Kammerrat and Hofrichter in Jena in 1663 Privy Council and Chancellor. In 1664 he entered into the service of the Duke Moritz of Saxony- Zeitz as a privy councilor, chancellor and Konsistorialpräsident. He laid in 1681 ( with two exceptions ) all the way down his offices and devoted himself to his scientific and literary work on his 1676 acquired Good Meuselwitz at Altenburg. Shortly before the end of his life he was once a reputation as a privy councilor to the court of Frederick III. to come to Berlin and to become founding Chancellor of the University of Halle in 1692. Shortly after he arrived in Halle and its activities only for a settlement in November of the same year has been handed down, he died there.

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

He was married to Elisabeth Juliana of Vippbach (1621-1685) and after her death with Sophia from the end ( 1653-1710 ). None of his children reached adulthood.

Works

  • Commentarius historicus et Apologeticus de Lutheranismo, Gotha 1688 ( 3 vols, complete, Frankf. Leipz u. 1692 ), a rejoinder to Louis Maimbourgs Histoire du Lutheranisme.
  • The German princely state ( Gotha 1655 ), in which p, the welfare of the German principalities analyzed and wanted to give the Regent a guide at hand to preserve wealth, justice and public order and safety, and to multiply. Teutscher princely state, Jena 1720 ( Google Book 52.9 MB, February 9, 2008).
  • Teutscher princes Stat. Götze, Frankfurt (Main ) 1656. Digitized and full text in German Text Archive
  • The Christian State. Leipzig 1685, inter alia, ( accessed February 9, 2008 )
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