Bartholomäus Reusner

Bartholomäus Reusner (also: Reussner, Reissner ; * 1565 in Breslau ; † November 16, 1629 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Born as the son of the doctor Bartholomäus Reusner and his wife Katharina (née Uthmann), he belonged on his father's side to the Reusner family, which distinguished itself as a scholarly family especially in the 16th century. On his mother's side he was related to Franz Hotomann , among others . After attending grammar school in Zittau , he moved to the University of Strasbourg , where he found accommodation with his uncle Nikolaus von Reusner and the guidance to complete a law degree. When his uncle accepted an offer at the University of Jena at the beginning of February 1589 , he followed him.

He studied three years and finally in 1589 received his doctorate with a thesis on "de obligatione ex the vel ad diem contracta" for Doctor of Law. As can be proven with all family members of the Reusners, Bartholomäus also had an extensive polyhistorical education. He was well versed in Greek, Hebrew, French and Italian, but he also had an extensive knowledge of astronomy, geometry, music and poetry. At the beginning of 1594 he was appointed professor of the institutions at the University of Wittenberg . His tasks in the Wittenberg legal world were extensive, combined with further advancement in the professorship, he became assessor of the Wittenberg court and consortium, as well as the Saxon Appellate Council .

In 1608 he became the oldest member of the law faculty, full professor of the law faculty, gave lectures on arrest, as well as "lectionem ordinariam in Decretalibus", i.e. the general rules of procedure. He took part in the church visits on behalf of the elector , administered the rectorate of the university in the summer semesters 1601, 1607, and 1617, and in 1624 became assessor of the higher appeal court in Dresden .

The nature-loving Reusner, who often stayed at his Wittenberg country house to relax, also wrote religious songs.

In 1627 he suffered a heart attack and tried to get his son-in-law as a substitute before he died as a result of another heart attack.

Reusner was married twice. His first marriage was on November 17, 1601 with Dorothea (born May 20, 1585 in Wittenberg), the daughter of Johann Zanger the Younger , who gave birth to seven children. His second wife Dorothea Brakelin came from the Livonian aristocratic family, whom he married as the widow of the Danish fish master Johann Schreiter. This marriage remained childless. Known are the children Johann Bartholomäus Reusner and Maria Magdalena Reusner who married Georg Schultze on February 18, 1624 . The daughter Anna Dorothea Reusner (born June 24, 1611 in Wittenberg; † October 25, 1658 ibid) married the lawyer Arnold Still in her first marriage and the lawyer Gottfried Suevus the Elder in her second marriage .

Fonts

• Discursum philosophicum contra novatores & abusores legum corruptores. Wittenberg 1601.
• De obligationibus ex die vel ad diem contactis. Wittenberg 1601.
• De moneta.
• De mutua conjugum successione.
• De foro competenti.
• De recusatione judicis suspecti.
• De consuetudine.
• De conceptione libellorum.

literature

• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917.
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Reusner, Nikolaus von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 299-303.
• Reusner, Bartholomäus, councilor. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 31, Leipzig 1742, column 962.
• R. Stinzing: History of the law. Oldenbourg, Munich, Leipzig 1880, 1st department ( online ).