Bartholomäus Sastrow, German politician (born 1520)

Bartholomäus Sastrow

German politician (1520–1603)

Bartholomäus Sastrow, sometimes anglicised Bartholomew, was a German official, notary, and mayor of Stralsund. He left a culturally and historically important autobiography, written in 1595 when he was 75 years of age. There is a plaque marking the site of his birth at Lange…