Augustine by Balthasar

Augustine by Balthasar. Engraving by Johann David Schleuen

Augustin von Balthasar , before 1746: Augustin Balthasar (born May 20, 1701 in Greifswald , † June 20, 1786 in Wismar ) was a German lawyer and scholar in Swedish Pomerania . He is considered an important representative of law in the Age of Enlightenment . As a historian , he compiled extensive material on the history of Pomerania .

Life

Augustin (von) Balthasar was the son of the lawyer at the University of Greifswald Jakob Balthasar and his wife Anna Katharina, nee. Gerdes. In 1704 the father moved with the family to Rostock . After his death in 1706, the mother and the children returned to Greifswald. There his older brother Jakob Heinrich exercised a significant influence on his education. After attending school, Augustin Balthasar studied history and philosophy in Greifswald in 1718 , then law at the University of Jena . In 1724 he went on a study trip that took him through Thuringia, the Rhine region and the Netherlands .

On his return to Greifswald he became in 1726 the licentiate of the rights doctorate . 1727 habilitation he become the adjunct law school. At the same time he was syndic of the university. In 1730 he received his doctorate and from 1734 taught institutions , pandects , canon and feudal law as a full professor . In 1735 he became an assessor of the faculty and in 1736 resigned his offices as adjunct and syndic. In 1737, 1745 and 1753 he was elected rector of the college.

The Teutsche Gesellschaft zu Greifswald , of which he was a co-founder, elected him in 1740 as its director. From 1743 he was assessor, later also president of the Greifswald consistory . In 1746 he and his brothers Jakob Heinrich, Georg Nikolaus and Johann Gustav were raised to the hereditary nobility by means of an imperial diploma . In 1763 he was appointed as assessor at the Wismar tribunal , of which he was vice-president from 1778 until his death. In 1781 he was made a knight of the Royal Swedish North Star Order .

Fonts

Augustin von Balthasar wrote numerous papers on local legal history and canon law. He has also published works on the history of Greifswald University. His extensive collections on the history of Pomerania take up the bulk of his surviving manuscripts and form a decisive part of the Greifswald " Vitae Pomeranorum ".

• "Hist. Message from the regional courts ”. 1733-37
• "Hist. Message from the state laws ”. 1740
• "Hist. Message from the state privileges ”. 1747
• "Historical News of the Academic Buildings and Homes". 1750. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
• "Of origin, office, law and election of the district councilor". 1752
• "Lawful and Univ. Jurisdiction of the royal. Tribunals ". 1770.

• “De hominibus propriis Pomer.”. 1735-49
• "Coll. juris com. cum jure saxon. Lubec. Meckl. Et Pom. de classificatione creditorum ". 1740 (sec. Ed. 1767)
• "Del. processus judiciarii " . 1742
• "De libris seu matriculis ecclesiastics". 1747 (sec. Ed. 1748)
• "Ius ecclesiasticum pastorale". 1760.

• "Vitae jurisconsultorum". 1737–57, (70 biographies)
• "Rituale Academicum". 1742
• "Message from Academic Buildings and Foundations". 1750

• “Diplomats for the Government of the Cities and the University”. (Manuscript)
• "Vitae Pomeranorum".

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Adolf Häckermann :  Balthasar, Augustin von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 29 f.
• Katja Jönsson, Matthias Wolfes :  Balthasar, Augustin von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 120-124.
• Dirk Alvermann (ed.): Always in the house of the Lord. The life story of Augustin von Balthasar (1701–1786) told by himself. Greifswald 2003 (= publications by the Chair of Nordic History. Ed. By Jens E. Olesen , Volume 2), ISBN 3-86006-213-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rector Chronicle 1700–1799 .
2. ↑ Marian Szyrocki, Norbert Honsza, Hans-Gert Roloff (eds.): That one nation should understand the other. Festschrift for Marian Szyrocki on his 60th birthday. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-5183-020-3 , pp. 268 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Augustin von Balthasar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Augustin von Balthasar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Augustin von Balthasar  in the German Digital Library
• Literature about Augustin von Balthasar in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Augustin von Balthasar in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Augustin von Balthasar in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
• Consortium of European Research Libraries : Augustin von Balthasar catalog of works

predecessor	Office	successor
Timotheus Lütkemann	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1737	Christian Stephan Scheffel
Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1745	Christian Stephan Scheffel
Lewin Moeller	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1753	Christian Stephan Scheffel