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Personal data Johanes /Franke Francke 

• He was born in the year 1600.

  Attention: Was older than 65 years (66) when child (Tochter Francke) was born (??-??-1666).

• A child of Hans /Franke Francke and Elsabe Augusta Wessel

Household of Johanes /Franke Francke

He is married to Anna Gloxin.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Elisabeth Margareta Francke  1654-1729
2. Anna Francke  1658-1680
3. August Herman /Franke Francke  > 1660-???? 
4. Johannes Francke  1660-????
5. Heinrich Friedrich Francke  1661-1727
6. Friedrich Francke  1664-????
7. Tochter Francke  1666-????
8. Anna Francke  

Notes about Johanes /Franke Francke

became a distinguished jurist and privy councillor

 

The maternal grandfather of A. H. Francke and his sister Katharina, Pastor Johannes Dreyer's mother, was the jurist David Gloxin (1597-1671); their maternal grandmother sprang from the line of the wealthy Hamburg merchant--son of a Wismar Bürgermeister--Heinrich Schabbel, who had endowed a charitable foundation called the Schabbelianum, or Schabbelianischen Familienstiftung, of which AHF would one day be a stipendiary. His paternal grandfather was a baker named Hans Francke, named Hans Francke (1587-1650), born at Heldra in Hesse, near the Thuringian border, who emigrated first to Hamburg, then to Lübeck, where he married Elsabe Wessel, daughter of an old Hanseatic family. Hans Francke’s son Johannes, who married seventeen-year-old Anna Gloxin, in his turn became a distinguished jurist and privy councillor. Interesting perhaps thattoday most Gloxins in Germany (where the name is very rare) are to be found in Landkreis Hildburghausen in Thuringia--perhaps the two families had known each other there.

So this is in effect the earliest family portrait I know of. It dates from 1658. The picture is in the public domain and was evidently uploaded from Antjekathrin Graßmann, Lübeckische Geschichte (Lübeck : Schmidt-Römhild, 1988). I think I'll put it in my book!

David Gloxin was a widely traveled jurist, who dealt with kings, princes, and counts, and represented Lübeck and the Hansa not only at the peace negotiations at Münster and Osnabruck in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years’ War but at many Reichstags. He was Bürgermeister of Lübeck from 1666 until his death. He evidently was partly of Dutch descent.

At his christening in Lübeck in March 1633, Sybille Hedwig von Sachsen-Lauenberg (<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylle_Hedwig_von_Sachsen-Lauenburg>), daughter of the reigning Duke August, was one of AHF’s godparents, and AHF evidently took the name August from him. Since she was then a child of only seven, Duke August (<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_%28Sachsen-Lauenburg%29>) may well have attended the christening too, which would make it pretty grand!

Incidentally, a photograph of the Grube St. Jürgen-Kirche's sixteenth-century pastor’s house, which at the time when JAD was growing up had been converted into a barn (Pastoratsscheune), is to be found in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesbibliothek Landesgeschichtliche Sammlung in Kiel: <http://www.museen-sh.de/ml/digi_einzBild.php?s=2&suce=Scheune&inst=10010001542&mab_id=10010001542&nameInst=&&b=37108&LK=raus&LKanz=&action=vonsuche&nameInst=Schleswig-Holsteinische%20Landesbibliothek&r=>

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