Anton Matthew I.

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Portrait of Anton Matthäus I

Anton Matthäus (also: Mathaeus ; * December 27, 1564 in Frankenberg (Eder) ; † May 28, 1637 in Groningen ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Matthäus was born as the fourth son of Marburg professor Konrad Matthaeus (1519–1580) and his second wife Ursula, the daughter of Marburg councilor Geilo Wernher. His parents had fled to Falkenberg when he was born because the plague had broken out in Marburg. After attending the pedagogy in Marburg from 1581, he moved to the University of Marburg in 1585 and, like his father, began studying law. He received, among others, Hermann Vultejus and Regner Sixtin (1543-1617) the initial knowledge of law. In 1586 he moved to the University of Heidelberg , where he continued his studies with his brother-in-law Valentin Forster .

Since student unrest broke out in Heidelberg, he moved to the University of Helmstedt in 1587 and from there to the University of Wittenberg , where Eberhard von Weyhe and Petrus Wesenbeck were his teachers. After the student riots, his brother-in-law Georg Sohn (1551–1589) directed him back to Heidelberg, where a position as court master awaited him with the noble Alexander von Somber, whom he accompanied on an educational trip. So he met Hugo Donellus and Hubert Giphanius (1534–1604) at the University of Altdorf . In 1593 he returned to Marburg and became a private teacher of law, in 1594 he received his doctorate in law and in the same year he was appointed to the legal chair of the academic high school in Herborn .

At that time he also began to work as a writer. In 1605, Landgrave Moritz von Hessen appointed him to the Marburg University as a full professor of law. After 20 years on the chair, he became Professor of Law at the newly founded University of Groningen in 1625 . He would also have liked to take up a position at Franeker University , but was not available in Groningen. So he spent the last years of his life there. In old age he had to struggle with increasing body aches and was more and more confined to bed.

family

In 1596 he married Elisabeth, the daughter of the archivist Eckehard Schuler, in Herborn. With this he had nine sons and three daughters. Four of his sons also became important. Johannes Matthäus became professor in Kassel, Anton Matthäus (1601-1654) became professor in Utrecht, Konrad Matthäus became professor in Gröningen and Christoph Matthäus († June 11, 1647 in Utrecht) professor of medicine in Utrecht.

Selection of works

A large number of his writings contain the Collegia juris sex, published after his death by his sons, which were put on the index in Rome in 1649. These include 144 disputations.

  1. Notae et animadversiones in libros IV Instit. Jur. Imp. Justin. Herborn 1600, 1602, 1611, 1632, Franeker 1647, Amsterdam 1657
  2. Comment. In varios Digestorum & Codicis Tiulos.
  3. Fundamenta juris. Herborn 1623
  4. Conclusiones de foederibus & foederum natura. Grönigen 1634
  5. Collegium controversiarum antinomiarum in institutionibus. Groeningen 1637
  6. De criminibus ad lib. XLVII and XLVIII Digestorrum. 1644
  7. Collegia juris sex.Groeningen 1638, Franeker 1647,

literature

personal data
SURNAME Matthäus, Anton I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mathaeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg (Eder)
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1637
Place of death Groningen