Adam Riccius

Adam Riccius (born January 8, 1605 in Gartz (Oder) , † August 19, 1662 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

His grandfather Peter Riccius came from a noble Neapolitan family, had studied in Germany and because of his Lutheran faith settled in Germany. Adam was the son of his descendant Joachim Riccius, who married Judith Sass. The brother of Christophorus Riccius (1590–1643) probably received his first education at the grammar school in Gdansk and started studying at the University of Königsberg . He then went on a scholarly trip that took him to Holland in 1632, where he was granted the right to give lectures at the law faculty at the University of Leiden . Three years later, he obtained a degree in law from the University of Orléans .

Returned to Königsberg, he became Mandatarius Fisici (authorized overseer) and in 1640 extraordinary professor at the law faculty of the Königsberg University. After he received his doctorate in law on July 14, 1642 with the legal disputation Secundum statuta academiae , he took over the second full professorship in the same year and rose to first professor in 1645. In this capacity he also took part in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semesters of 1651, 1655, 1657, 1659 and 1661 .

Riccius was married three times. He had his first marriage in 1637 with Ursula (born September 29, 1614, † July 30, 1638 in childbed), daughter of the Königsberg professor Johann Behm.

His second marriage was in March 1645 with Maria (* March 14, 1600; † April 22, 1659), daughter of the Löbenicht citizen Ignatius Tappalke and widow of the court relative in Löbenicht Johann Schultz.

His third marriage was on November 9, 1660 with Anna Pilchowska von Bieberstein from the house of Klötzen (* May 5, 1621, † February 16, 1662), widow of the mayor in Prussian Holland and Mag. Eilhard Mencken.

A daughter, Barbara Sophia, is known from her first marriage, but she died at the age of five.

Works

• Thorough refutation of the Pasquil, which was distributed against him and sold publicly. Koenigsberg 1651
• Contemtum Adami Riccii that is, Thorough answer to the D. Riccii Pasquils. Koenigsberg 1651
• Tractatus Rapsodicus de liborum Juris Romani, tam civilis, quam canonici, tam orientalis, quam occidentalis, nec non praecipuorum municipalium in Germania receptorum Jurium quantitate et qualitate. Königsberg 1654/55, 1657
• Erotemata super Institutiones Juris Romani. Koenigsberg 1654
• Deliciae Academicae. 1657
• Oratio Solemnis, Quam Paraverat Recitare Circa Renuntiationem Sextum Administrati Huius Academiae Rectoratus. Koenigsberg 1662

Works that are in the literature but could not be identified

• Disp. De jure possessionis
• Disp. Quinque in institutionis cum jure prutenico collates
• Disp. De servitutibus.
• Qratio de quaestione: an Romanis unquam in mentem venerit, talem promulgare legern, qua debitor creditoribus suis in fervitutem addicerttur, hisque permitteretur, illius corpus dissecare, et inter separtiri?

literature

• Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1886, pp. 356, 358, 384
• Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon. 1751, 3rd vol. Col. 2067
• Riccius, Adam. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 31, Leipzig 1742, column 1251.
• J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr.Gallandi 1883 p. 470
• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, 244, 263, 281 line 47

Web link

• Publications by and about Adam Riccius in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim R., who at that time was a professor at the Szczecin Pedagogy and later became a clergyman at the Gartz Church as well as "Spiritual Inspector" of the Gartz Circle
2. ↑ ( online )