Jost Andreas von Randow

Jost Andreas von Randow ( born April 3, 1580 Loburg; ? †) was Hofmann at the court of Anhalt Dessau and member of the Fruit -bearing Society.

Life

Jost Andreas von Randow ( gelegentl. also Randau ) comes from a altadeligem family which originally came from the archbishopric of Magdeburg. He was the son of Caspar von Randow from Loburg († 1610) and Elisabeth von Barby from the house Kalitz († 1618) and was born on Easter Sunday in 1580. Jost Andreas remained unmarried and is mentioned until 1623, but probably lived longer.

1619 Randow was recorded in 1617 by Prince Ludwig of Anhalt- Köthen I. founded the Fruitbearing society. He chose the name of the company be sized and the motto of Angehencktem blow which he himself explains:

As an emblem of Pomerania was a halbverdorrter apple tree whose branches partially covered with moss, with Krammetsvögeln beschmeißt the medlar or Kenster auflegend half and half down hangend bear is intended. In Köthener society book, Randows entry found under the number 22, so he was one of the early members of the society, which at its peak had 527 members in 1650. She had the reform and cultivation of the German language goal and spoke out against both the German " coarseness ", as well as against the exclusive claim of Latin.