Johann Christian von Boyneburg
Johann Christian Freiherr von Boyneburg (also Boineburg ) ( born April 12, 1622 Eisenach, † December 8, 1672 in Mainz ) was an Electoral Mainz statesman and diplomat.
Life
Johann Christian came from the Lower Hessian noble family Boyneburg, the members of which were repeated in Hesse, Thuringia and Mainz services. His father was the Saxe- Eisenach Privy Councillor and Lord Marshal Johann Berthold of Boineburg - Stadtlengsfeld († 1640), his mother Barbara Sibylla of Buttlar († 1624).
In 1648 he married Anna Christine ( † 1689), daughter of the Hessian Hofgerichtspräsidenten Kuno contactor Quirin von Holzhausen and Maria Eva from Dorfelden. From this marriage nine children were born. Philipp Wilhelm (1656-1717) was Reichshofrat and Mainz governor of Erfurt, Sophia Maria Anna (1652-1729) married the kurmainzischen Marshal of Melchior Friedrich von Schönborn and Charlotte ( † 1740), Baron and Imperial Field Marshal Johann Friedrich von Orsbeck, a nephew of the Trier Archbishop Carl Caspar von der Leyen.
Johann Christian von Boyneburg Hessian was ambassador at the Swedish court, later privy councilor, and in 1650 the first minister in kurmainzischem service.
In 1656 he converted to the Catholic Church. He was contracted to all major negotiations, as he was including in the election of the emperor Leopold I..
Suspected by the Jesuits, he was arrested in 1664 on the orders of the Elector; soon released, he went to live without the exchange partly in Mainz, partly in Frankfurt and dealt with attempts to restore the religious unity in Germany, as well as the sciences.
He moved Leibniz to move to Frankfurt and to engage in services of Mainz in 1670. Leibniz also teacher of his son Philip William was. His correspondence with many scholars of his time has been several times (most recently by Gruber, Hanover and Göttingen 1715 ) published.
His large library is mostly preserved and today. Loan from the City and Regional Library Erfurt in the care of the University of Erfurt
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After receiving the news of his death Gottfried Leibniz commented on Boyneburg in a letter dated 26 March 1673 Johann Friedrich, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg follows: " It has gewislich both the church when the Fatherland this man suffered a great loss, but the E. Hochfürtsl. Durchl know better than I describe kan " [sic ]