John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Johann Adolf ( born February 27, 1575 Gottorp Castle, † March 31, 1616 in Schleswig ) was the first Protestant Prince-Bishop of Lübeck ( 1586-1607 ) and Bishop of Bremen and Hamburg ( 1585-1596 ) and Duke of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp ( 1590-1616 ).
Life
Johann Adolf - third son of Adolf I of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp and Christine of Hesse - was educated at kryptocalvinistischen Hessian court of his uncle William IV of Hate -Kassel in Kassel. For its supply bargain by Caspar Hoyer, who was a counselor of his father, for the then eleven year old two benefices bishop. After the death of his two elder brothers, Frederick II (1568-1587) and Philipp (1570-1590), Johann Adolf with 15 years Duke of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp. Later he gave both dioceses from his youngest brother, Johann Friedrich.
Supported by local councils and Hessian succeeded Johann Adolf reorganization of gottorfischen state. Together with the Danish King Christian IV, whose sister he married Augusta, he pushed back the influence of the stands in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein by the introduction of primogeniture. In religious matters alienated Johann Adolf himself. Due to his affection for the force as a genteel Calvinism of his wife and brother in law After he had in 1610 replaced the Lutheran General Superintendent and court preacher Jacob Fabricius by the Reformed Philip Caesar, the orthodox Lutheran Augusta attended services in Schleswig Cathedral. Once Duke Johann Adolf had died in 1616, she reached the dismissal of Caesar and the reinstatement of Fabricius in his office.
Soon after his accession Johann Adolf began with the expansion of Gottorp Castle, where he also collected coins and weapons and had to create a library.
Progeny
He married on 30 August 1595 Copenhagen Augusta (* April 8, 1580; † February 5, 1639 ), the daughter of the Danish king Frederick II Together, the couple had the following children: .
- Friedrich III. (* December 22, 1597; † August 10, 1659 ), Duke of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp
- Elisabeth Sofie (* December 12, 1599, † November 25, 1627 ) - married to August Herzog von Sachsen- Lauenburg
- Adolf ( * September 15, 1600; † September 19, 1631 )
- Dorothea Auguste (* May 12, 1602, † March 13, 1682 ) - married to Duke Joachim Ernst von Schleswig-Holstein - Plön ( 1595-1671 )
- Hedwig (* December 23, 1603, † March 22, 1657 ) - married to August, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
- Anna (* December 19, 1605, † March 20, 1623 )
- Johann (* March 18, 1606, † February 21, 1655 )
- Christian ( born December 1, 1609)