Benedikt Carpzov the Elder

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Benedikt Carpzov the Elder

Benedikt Carpzov the Elder (born October 22, 1565 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † November 26, 1624 in Wittenberg ) was a German professor of law .

Life

Benedikt Carpzov's house (from 1602) in Colditz

Benedikt Carpzov the Elder was the son of the Brandenburg Mayor Simon Carpzov from the Carpzov family and his wife Anna (née Lindenholz). He attended school in his hometown and in Braunschweig . In 1580 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , where he took up legal studies, and in 1583 moved to the University of Frankfurt / Oder . In 1584 he went back to Wittenberg, where he obtained his licentiate . He then went on a study trip to the universities in Altdorf near Nuremberg , Ingolstadt , Tübingen , Strasbourg and Heidelberg .

Again in Wittenberg, he completed his doctorate on September 8, 1590 Doctor of Rights and married Anna flood. In 1592 he became a member of the law faculty in Wittenberg and in 1594 took over a position as chancellor with Count Martin in Reinstein and Blankenburg. He kept his residence in Wittenberg and applied for an associate professor at the university in 1596, but the Saxon administrator refused this for reasons of economy.

In 1599 he was appointed to the lowest professorship at the Faculty of Law and rose to the fourth professorship in 1601 when Thomas Franzius resigned from his professorship. After his first wife died in childbed, he married Christina Selfisch. In 1602 the widow of the Elector Christian I of Saxony , Sophie , appointed him as chancellor at her court, which position was connected with that of a council of the appellate court in Dresden .

Since the elector's widow had set up residence in Colditz , Carpzov followed her there. From 1610 he also represented the interests of her daughter Dorothea, who was the abbess of the Quedlinburg Abbey , as a councilor . After the death of Electress Sophie, he returned to Wittenberg as a private citizen in 1623, occasionally being entrusted with public tasks by the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony . He died in 1624 and was buried in the Wittenberg Castle Church.

Carpzov did not write anything besides insignificant dissertations. Rather, he achieved a lot of fame at that time just because of his personality. From his first marriage to Anna Fluth (born April 19, 1573 in Wittenberg; † December 4, 1598 in Wittenberg) which was concluded on September 8, 1590 and which was a daughter of the Wittenberg pharmacist and councilor Conrad Fluth (* 1538 in Weida; † February 3, 1608 in Wittenberg), who had married on January 30, 1570 to the daughter Anna of the pharmacist and mayor of Wittenberg Casper Pfreund . This in turn was the son-in-law of Lucas Cranach the Elder . Her sons Konrad Carpzov and Benedikt Carpzov the Younger and daughters Maria (born July 18, 1598 in Wittenberg, † May 1640 in Quedlinburg, married on May 2, 1620 to the later Chancellor in Rudolstadt Friedrich Lentz come from Carpzov's first marriage to Anna Fluth (* September 11, 1597 in Wittenberg; † January 9, 1659 in Rudolstadt)) and Anna (married to the patrician and Pfänner Erasmus Ludwieger († 1617) in Halle (Saale) (she lived in Halle in 1640)).

From the second marriage in 1601 with Christine Selfisch (* July 20, 1585 Wittenberg; † April 1, 1661 Coburg), a daughter of the Wittenberg bookseller and mayor Samuel Selfisch and his second wife Margareta Rubin, the children Christian Carpzov , Anna Maria Carpzov ( † October 12, 1622), Johann Benedikt Carpzov I , August Carpzov and Carolus Carpzov (* Colditz). Through his son Johann Benedikt there is an ancestral line to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands .

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