Benedikt Winkler

Benedikt Winkler (* 1579 in Salzwedel ; † June 1, 1648 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer in the first half of the 17th century.

biography

Winkler, who comes from Salzwedel, studied law at the University of Leipzig and published his work Principiorum juris libri quinque there in 1615, which contained early approaches to natural law . In 1616 he was supported by the University of Basel Dr. jur. PhD. He went to Lübeck, where he first became the second lawyer and in 1630 the first lawyer of the council. As such, he represented the Hanseatic city in 1639 together with councilor Hermann von Dorne in Stade as a mediator in a dispute between the later Danish King Friedrich III. , who was Archbishop of Bremen as Friedrich II. 1634–1648, and the council of the Hanseatic City of Bremen . Shortly before his death he was Lübeck's ambassador at the coronation ceremonies for King Friedrich III. of Denmark at the court of Copenhagen.

In 1634 he bought the house at Königstrasse 81 . His son was the mayor of Lübeck, Anton Winckler .

Fonts

• Principiorum juris libri quinque , Leipzig 1615

literature

• Ernst Landsberg :  Winkler, Benedikt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 449.
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, No. 757, 802
• Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 . In: ZVLGA , Volume 29, 1938, p. 108.

Web links

• Publications by and about Benedikt Winkler in VD 17 .
• Winckler, Benedict. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 57, Leipzig 1748, column 494 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of building and architecture, urban development in Lübeck, AK 11 Königstrasse 60 to 81 (PDF; 157 kB) p. 15; Retrieved October 8, 2013