Benedict Pauli

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Benedikt Pauli (born March 7, 1490 in Wittenberg , † April 3, 1552 in Wittenberg) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Pauli enrolled in the foundation semester 1502/03 at the University of Wittenberg , the university in his hometown. In the spring of 1505 he became a Baccalaureus in the arts faculty and decided to study law under Henning Göde . On April 25, 1515 he became a Baccalaureus of Law, in the summer semester of 1521 he was promoted to a licentiate in civil law, whereupon he received a position as advocatus pauperum at the court in Leipzig .

After Otto Beckmann left the university, he was initially given lectures on the institutions from 1523 to 1524, in addition to taking over the lesson on canonical rights for Justus Jonas the Elder after Johannes Schwertfeger , receiving 20 guilders a year for the substitute. After Johann Apel had finally taken over the professorship for canon law , Pauli continued to hold the professorship for the institutions, for which he initially received 14 guilders from university funds and from September 1525 20 guilders income from the syndicate of the Wittenberg Castle Church .

This increased to 40 guilders in October of the same year, which again involved new tasks. His obligations at the electoral court became so extensive that he hired an assistant in the form of Sebaldus Münsterer . After the court court had been moved to Wittenberg, he worked there as an assessor. In October 1529 he received his doctorate in law, engaged in 1531 Konrad Mauser as his deputy and was mainly used for official business at the court of Electoral Saxony and in Wittenberg council matters.

So he took part in the convent in Schmalkalden in 1537 and showed himself there as a passionate opponent of Rome. After the Saxon electoral dignity passed from the Ernestines to the Albertines , he continued his teaching activities. During his academic activity he was, among other things, rector of the Wittenberg University in the winter semester 1526/27 and 1548/49 . In 1524/25 he was head of the common caste for the city of Wittenberg, and in 1529, 1532 and 25 he became mayor. Pauli, who had proven himself during the church visits of the Saxon Kurkreis , was commissioned to set up the church consistory and was one of the first assessors at the Wittenberg consistory. After his death, Philipp Melanchthon dedicated a poetic funerary inscription to him, which clearly shows him as an important companion of the Reformation. His name appears frequently in the letters of the reformers.

family

With his wife Anna Rothe († August 21, 1547 in Wittenberg) he owned a house in the Brüdergasse and was considered wealthy due to shares in mines. Several children have emerged from their marriage. A son named Paul died suddenly in 1533, a daughter Dorothea died on February 5, 1537, and his son Benedikt died in 1550. Several children survived him, three of whom were not of legal age when he died. His daughter Eyphrosyne married the lawyer Michael Teubner and bought his house in 1554, which also included a garden and vineyard. His son Johannes later became mayor of Wittenberg. Stephan Wild was his brother-in-law.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Buchwald: On the Wittenberg city and university history in the Reformation . Georg Wigand, Leipzig 1893, p. 127
  2. ↑ born 1546 in Wittenberg, studied in Wittenberg, in 1574 he was admitted to the council, in 1587 he was mayor, first marriage in 1568 with Catharina Mässigk († October 11, 1576), daughter of the town clerk Georg Mässigk, second marriage in 1578 with Magaretha von Zülsdorf. He is portrayed as a pure Lutheran who was hostile to Calvinism, donated 100 guilders for the hospital, died March 20, 1616 for poor people (after the funeral sermon, evangelical seminary)
  3. ↑ Georg Buchwald: On the Wittenberg city and university history in the Reformation . Georg Wigand, Leipzig 1893, p. 55
personal data
SURNAME Pauli, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1552
Place of death Wittenberg