Augustin Rhaw

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Augustin Rhaw

Augustin Rhaw , also: Rhau, Rau, Rhawe (* 1573 in Greifswald ; † September 3, 1621 in Wolgast ) was a German legal scholar and Pomeranian politician.

Life

Augustin was the son of Balthasar Rhaw (I.) , studied in Greifswald , Wittenberg , Ingolstadt , Heidelberg , had worked at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer and in 1597, at the age of 24, had become Associate Professor of Law at the Greifswald University. He received his doctorate in 1598 in Wittenberg as a doctor of law , rose to a full professorship and in 1617 went to Philipp Julius of Pomerania as a princely councilor in Wolgast, where he died in 1621 as Vice Chancellor. Rhaw, who was inherited from Brandshagen , took part in the organizational tasks of the Greifswald University. In the years 1603/04, 1611/12 and 1612/13 he was rector of the Alma Mater.

family

Rhaw was married to Maria Westphal, the daughter of the professor of law in Greifswald Hermann Westphal († 1607) and his wife Margarethe Klinckow. Among other things, the marriage resulted in:

  • Balthasar (II.) (1601–1658) Professor of Theology in Greifswald
  • Joachim (born October 16, 1602 in Greifswald; † January 3, 1664 ibid) Greifswald archdeacon at St. Nikolai Cathedral (Greifswald) . His son Balthasar von Rhaw (1645–1709) was married to Elisabeth Heider (1640–1707), a daughter of the Lindau patrician Valentin Heider , and was imperial and ducal councilor of Württemberg, syndic of the Swabian imperial knighthood and mayor of the imperial city of Esslingen
  • Augustine, became major
  • Anna, married to the pastor in Poseritz Heinrich Wackerrod
  • Magaretha (December 21, 1610 - September 10, 1631)
  • Hermann (October 4, 1604 - June 21, 1628)

See also

literature

  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: General scholarly lexicon. 1751, Volume 3, Col. 1042.
  • Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. 1560-1750. R. 4516
  • Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten : History of the University of Greifswald with documentary enclosures. Vol. 1
  • Edmund Lange : The Greifswald collection Vitae Pomeranorum. Verlag Julius Abel, Greifswald, 1898, p. 308.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Baum des Lebens , 1728, p. 275 (funeral sermon for his son Friedrich Balthasar von Rhaw)
predecessor Office successor
Joachim Stephani Rector of the University of Greifswald
1603/04 		Petrus Bestebostel
Joachim Stephani Rector of the University of Greifswald
1611/13 		Johann Volkmar
personal data
SURNAME Rhaw, Augustin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhau, Augustin; Rau, Augustin; Rhawe, Augustine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and Pomeranian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1573
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1621
Place of death Wolgast