Andreas Homborg

Andreas Homborg , also: Andreas Homburg (born January 5, 1656 in Helmstedt ; † June 21, 1714 ibid) was a German legal scholar.

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The son of the professor in Helmstedt for logic and physics Johann Homborg (1601–1656) and his wife Anna, the daughter of the Ratmann in Helmstedt Joachim Wrock and his wife Gertrud Eggenstein, had received his first training in his hometown. In 1673 he moved to the University of Jena , where he studied philosophy and law with Valentin Velthem (1645–1700), Georg Adam Struve (1619–1692) and Ernst Friedrich Schröter (1624–1676). In 1675 he continued his studies at the university in his hometown, focusing primarily on law. As a private tutor he moved to the University of Leipzig with a young nobleman from Alvensleben , where he familiarized himself with the lectures of August Benedict Carpzov and Johann Born .

With another noble pupil he had visited the University of Marburg , the University of Giessen , Frankfurt am Main , Speyer , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Strasbourg , where he continued to study law. After returning to Helmstedt, he held private lectures at the university in his hometown from 1681, where he became an associate professor of law and assessor at the court in Wolfenbüttel in 1698 . After receiving his doctorate in law at the University of Erfurt in 1701 , he became a full professor in Helmstedt in 1702 and in this capacity also took part in the university's organizational tasks. He was several times dean of the law faculty and in the winter semester 1710 vice rector of the alma mater.

Homborg's academic work dealt primarily with Roman private law and criminal law. He also worked in the law faculty of the University of Helmstedt; He prepared a total of 350 legal opinions for court proceedings.

Works

• Consilia sive Responsa Helmstadiensa. Frankfurt u. Leipzig 1713
• Praelectiones Academicas in Institutiones Justinianaeas. Helmstedt 1703
• Dissertation. De Litteris Moratoriis ad I. 4. C. de Precibus Imper. Offerendis. Helmstedt 1704
• Decad. Thesium Miscellanearum. Helmstedt 1710

literature

• Wolfgang Lent: Homborg, Andreas . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 358 ISBN 3-937664-46-7
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1980, vol. 10, p. 438, R 9703
• Homborg, Andreas. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 13, Leipzig 1735, column 727.

Web link

• Publications by and about Andreas Homborg in VD 17 .