Dietrich Reinkingk

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Dietrich (Latinized Theodor (us)) Reinkingk (born March 10, 1590 in Windau ; † December 15, 1664 in Glückstadt ) was a German constitutional lawyer and politician. He is also an important representative of early Reich journalism .

Life

Dietrich Reinkingk was born on March 10, 1590 in Windau / Kurland . Windau (Lat. Ventspils) is located in Courland at the mouth of the river of the same name in the Baltic Sea. Reinkingk's mother, née Lambsdorf , died in his early childhood. At the age of 13 Reinkingk was given retirement to Osnabrück because of a plague epidemic in Courland . At the age of 26, Reinkingk was awarded a doctorate in 1616 after studying in Cologne, Stadthagen and Marburg with the work “De brachio seculari et ecclesiastico”. iur. PhD. Soon afterwards he worked at the Lutheran University in Gießen , which had been founded as the University for Hesse-Darmstadt in 1607 due to the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse . Its current name is Justus Liebig University .

In 1617, Reinkingk was appointed extraordinary professor at the Giessen faculty by Landgrave Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt. In 1618 Reinkingk left the faculty because he was appointed to the court council in Giessen. After various high offices in Hesse (1625 Vice Chancellor) he became Chancellor in Schwerin in 1632 after the return of the ducal house of Mecklenburg . Here he brought about Mecklenburg's accession to the Peace of Prague and a certain distance from Sweden. Multiple arrests by Swedish authorities followed; from 1635 to 1645 he was held as a "hostage" in Swedish custody.

After his release, Reinkingk became Chancellor of Archbishop Friedrich II of Bremen . But he did not succeed in the Osnabrück peace negotiations to preserve the existence of the archbishopric. When his prince inherited the Danish throne in 1648 , Reinkingk became the Danish Privy Councilor and Chancellor of the "German Chancellery", namely the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, in high offices at court; According to his inclination, he was finally appointed from 1650 as President of the Higher Appeal Court in Pinneberg. In 1655 Emperor Ferdinand raised him to the imperial nobility.

After his wife died, who had given birth to 11 children in a 45-year marriage, Reinkingk entered into another marriage. A year later he died at the age of 75 in Glückstadt . He is buried in Rellingen in the Reinkingk hereditary burial that still exists today.

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Reinkingk was the most prominent representative of the imperial position in what was later known as Reich journalism . He rejected the rationalistic and remote theories of his contemporaries. Reinkingk uses the Roman and Byzantine legal sources equally alongside St. Scripture, fundamental theological works and Lutheran dogmatics. Reinkingk's political doctrine was influenced by Lutheran ethics and biblical theology, but tended towards a unified post-denominational constitutional order.

His goal was to preserve the endangered constitutional order of 1555 and to justify it under constitutional law. The modern developments, however, prevailed, which Reinkingk characterized as follows: "The modern raison d'état is a devil's reason, whereas God's code of law and its observance are the best ratio status and assurance of the state."

Works (selection)

  • Conclusiones CCXC de Bracchio seculari et ecclesiastico seu potestate utraque (doctorate in 290 conclusions). Casting 1616
  • Tractatus de Regimine seculari et ecclesiastico. 1619, many more editions
  • Biblical Policey. Fft./Main 1653. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
  • Jus feciale Armatae Daniae. Copenhagen 1657.
  • The rejuvenated Roman imperial eagle, together with the power and glory of the empire over all empires. Edited by Johann Diedrich von Güling. Goettingen 1687

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Dietrich Reinkingk  - Sources and full texts


personal data
SURNAME Reinkingk, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinkingk, Theodorus; Reinking, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, politician and Lutheran
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Windau
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1664
Place of death Glückstadt