Amadeus Eckolt

Engraving portrait around 1660

Amadeus Eckolt (also: Amadeus Eckhold, Eckoltus ; born January 25, 1623 in Wels , † November 20, 1668 in Leipzig ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Amadeus was the son of the later merchant in Leipzig Emanuel Eckolt († 1654) and his wife Catharina (born September 17, 1594 in Wels; † August 31, 1666 in Leipzig) the daughter of the merchant in Wels Matthias Haller and Magarethe Hopffer († 1634) born. Since his parents belonged to the Protestant faith, they had to flee to Regensburg in 1627 from the reprisals of the Catholics under Ferdinand II . After his family had found shelter with relatives in 1634, Eckhold moved to the University of Leipzig in 1638 , where Amadeus began studying philosophy.

After he had obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in 1644 , he took up legal studies and undertook a study trip in 1648, which took him to the University of Tübingen , the University of Basel , the University of Freiburg , the University of Strasbourg , the University of Ingolstadt and led to the University of Altdorf . Returned to Leipzig, he was on October 30, 1652 Baccalaureus at the Faculty of Law and received his doctorate on March 31, 1653 as a licentiate and doctor of law.

In 1659 he became assessor of the law faculty and in 1661 was professor with the title Verborum Significatione et de Regulis Juris . In 1658 he became a member of the small prince's college , assessor of the court of higher courts and in the summer semester of 1664 rector of the alma mater .

Eckolt was buried on November 24, 1668 in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig .

family

Four sons and two daughters are known from his marriage on May 23, 1653 with Anna Magaretha Clemm, widow of Hieronymus von Ryssel (married 1648; * 1625; † September 12, 1648).

• Emanuel Eckolt
• Amandeus Eckolt I († young)
• Joachim Eckolt († young)
• Amandeus Eckolt II (1659-7 April 1664)
• Johanna Magaretha Eckolt
• Catharina Elisabeth Eckolt.

Works

Eckolt's oeuvre is connected primarily during his university activities. So he appears as a present tense with his various respondents. However, few of his own works are known.

• Compendiariam Pandectarum Tractionem. Leipzig 1680, 1694
• De verborum significatione.
• De tutela materna disputatio prior. 1653
• Disputatio juridica de collatione bonorum. 1658
• De iureconsulto Velleiano. 1658
• Disputatio juridica de antinomiis. 1660
• Disputatio posterior de tutela materna. 1662
• De Tutela Materna Disputatio. 1663
• De culpa. 1663
• De concursu actionum, disputationem… proponit Jacobus Strackhorn . 1663
• Disputatio juridica de Salviano interdicto. 1664
• Disputatio juridica de furto earum rerum quæ navis levandæ causa ejiciuntur. 1665
• De affectione juridica. 1668

literature

• Eckhold, Amadeus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 8, Leipzig 1734, column 154.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon ... ( GoogleBooks )
• Emil Friedberg: One hundred years from the doctor's book of the Leipzig Faculty of Law 1600–1700. Alexander Edelmann, Leipzig 1887, p. 17, no.215
• Steffenhagen:  Eckolt, Amadeus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 635 f.
• Fritz Roth: Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. Self-published, Boppard, Vol. 5, p. 135, R 4218

Web links

• Publications by and about Amadeus Eckolt in VD 17 .
• Eckolt in the ULB Saxony-Anhalt - Ponickau collection