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About Johann von Hoverbeck
- Johann von Hoverbeck (1 December 1606 — 6 April 1682) was a Prussian diplomat. Hoverbeck's parents were Nikolaus von Hoverbeck, a derivative of a Flemish noble family, who emigrated in 1570 from Brabant to the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and Ursula Gutteter-Dobrodziejski, a derivative from a patrician family in Kraków.
- Johann von Hoverbeck, born in Aleksandrowice, a manor in the vicinity of Kraków, since 1614 attended the high school in Danzig (Gdansk).
- Since 1624 he undertook an extended educational journey through Europe and visited France (Paris, University of Sedan), the Netherlands, England (University of Oxford, London), Italy and Hungary.
- He returned home in June, 1630.
- In 1631 he took up duties in governmental services of Brandenburg and dealt with foreign affairs, especially concerning Poland.
- He was an envoy of Brandenburg-Prussia in Poland from 1631 to 1682.
- He was a political architect and co-signer of the Treaty of Wehlau in 1657 and participated also in the Treaty of Oliva in 1660.
- During his political career he acted as an advisor to Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg.
- As a gratification for his diplomatical achievements Frederick William presented to him in 1653 the manor of Eichmedien (Nakomiady) in Masuria, Duchy of Prussia.
- In 1663 the title of a baron war awarded to Johann von Hoverbeck. In 1644 Hoverbeck married Anna Sophia, a daughter of Wolf Dietrich von Rochow.
- Anna Sophia, with whom he had eleven children, died in 1659.
- His son Johann Dietrich von Hoverbeck became a diplomat too.
- Hoverbeck died in 1682 in Hohenstein (Olsztynek) in Masuria, Duchy of Prussia.
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