Seckendorff, VEIT LUDWIG VON, statesman and theologian (1626-92), studied at Strasburg, and served successively the princes of Saxony and Brandenburg, being chancellor of the university of
Halle at his death. He is best known for a Latin compendium of church history (1664), and a work, De Lutheranismis (1688), in reply to Maimbourg.—His nephew, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH (1673-1763), was distinguished as a field-marshal and diplomatist in the Austrian service, and was made a Count of the Empire.