Johannes Ferrarius

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Johann (es) Ferrarius (also Johannes Eisermann or Ferrarius Montanus ; * around 1486 in Amöneburg , † June 25, 1558 in Marburg ) was a German lawyer , theologian and philosopher . He was the founding rector of the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

After attending school in Münster in Westphalia , he enrolled as a student at the University of Wittenberg in 1510 . There he completed the basic studies of the seven liberal arts at the philosophical faculty. After he had acquired the degree of a Baccalaureus in 1512 and the academic degree of a Magister in 1514 and was admitted to the Faculty of Philosophy in 1515, he first turned to studying theology. After obtaining the academic degree of a Baccalaureus in theology in 1517, he dealt with medicine, obtained the licentiate and a doctorate ingenuarum artium. Ferrarius had gradually acquired academic honors from all four faculties of the university. In 1518 he met Philipp Melanchthon , who had arrived in Wittenberg , and took over lectures at the Wittenberg Academy.

As a professor at the philosophical faculty he taught about zoology according to Aristotle , alternating with the teaching assignment for the "Institutio oratoria" of the Quintilian . He found the extensive teaching duties an annoying burden, and he did not meet them to the extent expected. In 1521 he was officially instructed to diligently read Quintilian and after his completion some books by Pliny . He then expanded his reading area to include the “Lectio Pliniana” on Pliny, which was a transition to the second book of cosmology, the “Naturalis Historica”. After taking over the rector's office of the university in the winter semester of 1521, he gradually gave up his lectures over time.

He went to Marburg in 1523, joined the city council and became a lay judge at the city court. Now fully devoted to jurisprudence, he became an assessor at the Marburg court court, was appointed by Philip I of Hesse as professor of civil law at the university founded in 1527 and took up the post of founding rector of the University of Marburg on May 19, 1527 . After he became rector of the academy again in 1532, he obtained his first doctorate in law in Marburg, was vice-chancellor in 1536 and rector of the academy five more times until 1558. He was buried in the Marburg Elisabeth Church.

As a lawyer, he mainly created extensive scientific works that were shaped by the evangelical spirit and determined the life of the state. But already in Wittenberg he devoted himself to epic works, elegiac distiches and occasional poems. On behalf of his landgrave, he called Eobanus Hessus from Erfurt back to Marburg in 1536 . Ferrarius was married to Adelheid Dornberger.

Selection of works

Ad titulum Pandectarum De regulis iuris commentarius , 1537
  • Notae in Institutiones , Marburg 1532 and more
  • Commentar, ad tit. Pandectar. De regulis juris , Marburg 1537
  • De appellationibus. Supplicandi usu, restrictione adversus rem iudictam… , also under the title Progymnasmata forensia sive processus iudiciarii recepti libri V , published in Marburg 1542, 1554 and more often
  • Enchiridon de iudiciorum praeexercitamentis , Marburg 1554 and more often
  • De vitam Divae Elisabethae , Leipzig 1518
  • Ad inlustrissimum principem Volfgangum comitem Palatinum Rheni, ducem Bavariae etc. panegyricus , Wittenberg 1516
  • Tractatus de respublica bene instituenda. This is a very useful treatise on the common good , Marburg 1533, 1556

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SURNAME Ferrarius, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hessus Montanus, Johann; Ferrarius Montanus, Johann; Eisermann, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH around 1486
PLACE OF BIRTH Amöneburg
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1558
Place of death Marburg