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See also:VEIT See also:LUDWIG VON See also:SECKENDORF (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 See also: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 See also:Veit See also: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: |
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