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SECKENDORF, VEIT LUDWIG VON (1626-1692)

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SECKENDORF, See also:VEIT See also:LUDWIG VON (1626-1692) , See also:German statesman and See also:scholar, was a member of a German See also:noble See also:family, which took its name from the See also:village of Seckendorf between See also:Nuremberg and Langenzenn. The family was divided into eleven distinct lines, but only three survive, widely distributed throughout. See also:Prussia, See also:Wurttemberg and See also:Bavaria.1 Veit Ludwig von Seckendorf, son of See also:Joachim Ludwig von Seckendorf, was See also:born at Herzogenaurach, near See also:Erlangen, on the 20th of See also:December 1626. In 1639 the reigning See also:duke of See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg-See also:Gotha, Ernest the Pious, made him his protege. Entering the university of See also:Strassburg in 1642, he devoted himself to See also:history and See also:jurisprudence. The means for his higher See also:education came from See also:Swedish See also:officers, former comrades of his See also:father who had been actively engaged in the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War and who was executed at See also:Salzwedel on the 3rd of See also:February 1642 for his dealings with the Imperialists. After he finished his university course Duke Ernest gave him an See also:appointment in his See also:court at Gotha, where he laid the See also:foundation of his See also:great collection of See also:historical materials and mastered the See also:principal See also:modern See also:languages. In 1652 he was appointed to important judicial positions and sent on weighty embassages. In 1656 he was made See also:judge in the ducal court at See also:Jena, and took the leading See also:part in the numerous beneficent reforms of the duke. In 1664 he resigned See also:office under Duke Ernest, who had just made him See also:chancellor and with whom he continued on excellent terms, and entered the service of Duke See also:Maurice of See also:Zeitz (See also:Altenburg), with the view of lightening his See also:official duties. After the See also:death of Maurice in 1681 he retired to his See also:estate, Meuselwitz in Altenburg, resigning nearly all his public offices. Although living in retirement, he kept up a See also:correspondence with the principal learned men of the See also:day.

He was especially interested in the endeavours of the pietist Philipp See also:

Jakob Spener to effect a See also:practical reform of the German See also:church, although he was hardly himself a pietist. In 1692 he 1 Besides See also:Friedrich Heinrich, See also:count von Seckendorf, separately noticed, other members of the family were Adolf See also:Franz Karl (1742–1818), who was made a count by See also:Frederick See also:William III. of Prussia; Eduard Christoph Ludwig Karl v. Seckendorf-Gudent (1813–1875), a Wurttemberg official; Karl Sigmund (1744–1785), writer; Franz Karl See also:Leopold v. Seckendorf-Aberdar (1775–1809), poet, See also:literary See also:man and soldier; the See also:brothers,; See also:Christian Adolf (1767–1833) and Gustav Anton (" Patrik See also:Peale "),(1775–1823), both literary men of some See also:note, and See also:Arthur v. Seckendorf-Gudent (1845-1886), student of forestry. - was appointed chancellor of the new university of See also:Halle, but he died a few See also:weeks afterwards, on the 18th of December. Seckendorf's principal See also:works were the following:—Teutscher Furstenstaat (1656 and 1678), a handbook of German public See also:law; Der Christenstaat (1685), partly an See also:apology for See also:Christianity and partly suggestions for the See also:reformation of the church, founded on See also:Pascal's Pensees and embodying the fundamental ideas of Spener; Commentarius historicus et apologeticus de Lutheranismo sive de Reformatione (3 vols., See also:Leipzig, 1692), occasioned by the Jesuit See also:Maimbourg's Histoire du Lutheranisme (See also:Paris, 1680), his most important See also:work, and still indispensable to the historian of the Re-formation as a See also:rich storehouse of See also:authentic materials. See See also:Richard Pahner, Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff and See also:seine Gedanken fiber Erziehung and Unterricht (Leipzig, 1892), the best See also:sketch of Seckendorf's See also:life, based upon See also:original See also:sources. See also Theodor Kolde, " Seckendorf," in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopddie (1906).

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