| Administrative History | Dr. Johann von Glauburg (1529-1609), member of the influential von Glauburg family of Frankfurt am Main, many of whose members played leading part in politics, learning, and the Reformation in the Imperial city. Its most famous member was Johann von Glauburg (1503 - 1571), a friend of Luther and correspondent of Calvin. The writer's son is August von Glauburg (1562-1613) |
| Description | Letter in Latin, 3 pages, discussing Glauburg's son and the situation in the Empire, including the disputes over the Lutheran confession.
Abstract:
Acknowledges Beale’s letter of 12 February, which reach him 15 March. Beale was replying to a letter sent by the hand of Glauburg’s friend Dr. Muffett, but need not have apologized for delay in replying: “I well know that, particularly at this time, there is not always the means of sending letters here from London”. Glauburg had been rejoicing at Daniel Rogers’ release, but now he is even more strictly confined. Glauburg had written earlier to say he was sending his son, August, to Beale: he had now decided to send him to France within the next few weeks, if peace continued, to learn French. “I do not think he could be a useful member of an English notable’s staff unless he knows French or Italian”. After a year or two he would go on to England and learn the way of rendering acceptable service to men of note. This is necessary because he does not wish for a career in a learned profession, and so will have to follow a political one. In matters of state Germany is still at peace, but the theologians will not abandon their polemics (digladiationes). Gives an account of the efforts to secure signatures to the “Formula Concordiae”, many princes declining to do so.
[Abstract by James D. George]
Signed: Tuae amplitudinis obseruantissimus Joannes à Glauburgo
Endorsed:
1. in Beale's hand: 26. Martii 81 D. Glaubergus
2. in later hand (as elsewhere): Glauburge about his son; and also an Intimitation that the differences about the form of Confession still continued in Germany - &c
James D. George states that Dr Muffet is probably the physician and natiralist Thomas Moffet [also Moufet, Muffet] 1553–1604). The DNB notes that 'After visiting Johann Sturm in Strasbourg, where he befriended Robert Sidney, Moffet established a successful medical practice in Frankfurt' in about 1580.
Glauburg's letters MS 1009/2/25 and MS 1009/2/26 give further details of the career of August von Glauburg |