Peter Lambeck

Peter Lambeck ( Latinized Lambeccius; born April 13, 1628 Hamburg, † April 4, 1680 in Vienna) was a historian and librarian.

Life and work

Peter Lambeck was born as the son of the teacher Heino Lambeck and his wife, née Holste. The mother was the sister of the famous converts and Vatican librarian Lukas Holste ( Holstenius ), the father was a schoolmaster at the Lutheran St. Jacobi Church School in Hamburg and has written several textbooks for students.

Lambeck attended from 1644 the gymnasium of his native city of Hamburg, was the end of 1645 to Amsterdam later after suffering and Paris. He decided to study law and went to Rome with his uncle, where he in 1647 secretly turned to the Catholic faith. In 1649 he left the city and studied in Toulouse. On August 20, 1650 he acquired in Bourges the degree of Doctor of rights. The lawyer returned to his native town, and was appointed on December 2, 1651 as a professor of history at the Municipal Gymnasium. As teachers and scholars, he worked here very meritorious and energetic. After the death of Professor Joachim Jungius he was given in 1659 to life in its place as rector of the institution, which he took up on 12 January 1660.

Due to Catholicism inclining remarks in his " Origines Hamburgenses " he had to answer before the 1661 municipal councils, after which he left on April 25, 1662 Hamburg before the end of the matter. His decision was made easier by an unhappy marriage, which he received shortly before had. Via Vienna, where he was received by Emperor Leopold I in audience on 16 May, he traveled to Venice. from here, he resigned in a letter to all school offices in Hamburg and traveled to Rome., where he converted to the Catholic public church, returned on October 28, 1662 returned to Vienna and performed on December 14, the oath of service as an imperial historian and Vice - librarian. as the former imperial Library librarian, Matthew Mauchter, on May 26, 1663 gave up his place, Lambeck joined the succession of. in August 1665 he accompanied the Emperor, who often visited him in the library and was characterized by its special grace, on a pilgrimage to Mariazell in Styria, which Lambeck in the book " diary sacri Itineris Cellensis " (Vienna 1660, 270 p ) has described in detail. Another trip took him to the side of the monarch to Innsbruck, on which occasion he examined the book collection at Ambras Castle and the transfer of approximately 2000 works - including many precious manuscripts - led to the Vienna Court Library. Through these and other inventory outbreaks, as well as through better governance of the library, by more detailed description of their treasures and eliminate some abuses, Peter Lambeck has there acquired very considerable merit. For the historically interested emperor, the librarian also took care of the antiquities and coins. In 1676 he retired and the monarch rewarded him on this occasion with a bonus in the amount of 5000 florins, which he founded with his financial authority with the words. " It's a really industrious man and has probably earned a grace " (Hof financial act of May 25 of 1676. )

Lambeck even had a sizable in Hamburg, consisting of about 3,000 books and more than 200 valuable and rare Greek, Latin and German manuscripts library, which he had clearly come under price the Imperial Library in Vienna. He died 1680 in Vienna at the dropsy, which presumably is meant diabetes. In his letter dated June 21, 1678 will, he put his household, the Doctor of Laws and court - court lawyer Peter Strellmayr one with his wife to heir and recommends them to the mercy of his imperial master, as they him " more than filial love and patience " have met with.

Even in death, he is anxious that from the legacy of " all that books which have incontestably one of the Kayser Lichen hope bibliothec already earlier and still include, in addition to those fürderlichst bibliothec keys and other related bibliothec stuff and withou delay which may be to deputies Men want handed, and following immediately and ohnmittelbahr, so none of it coming, brought into the oberwehnte Kayserliche Hoff library, and deroselben einverleibet wiederrumb. "

Works

• Prodromus historiae literariae, et Tabula duplex chronographica universalis. Hamburgi, Sumptibus Autoris, 1659th curante Jo. Alberto Fabricio [ ... ] Hamburgi 1710.
• Commentarii de Augustiss. Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi, 8 volumes, 1665-79.
• Petri Lambecii Hamburgensis Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi. Vienna, 1766-1782. 8 vols, ed. by Adam F. Kollár.