Bernhard Graevaeus

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Bernhard Graevaeus (* 1564 or 1565 in the county of Ravensberg ; † February 1, 1639 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer and councilor in Bremen.

Life

Graevaeus was originally called Bernhard Greve. On a portrait that the painter Wolfgang Heimbach painted of him in 1636, his age is given as 71 years. According to the information in Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund's Lexicon of Bremen Scholars, Graevaeus was "in the 75th year" when he died on February 1, 1639. According to this, Graevaeus must have been born in 1564 or 1565. The place of birth was the Grafschaft Ravensberg - possibly its main town Bielefeld .

It is also not known where Graevaeus studied. In any case, he had the title of Doctor of Both Rights on the title of his Practicae Conclusiones Juris , published in 1603 .

Graevaeus worked as a lawyer in Bielefeld and was temporarily in the service of the Counts of Bentheim and the Electors of Cologne and Brandenburg . In 1625 he married Christine Steding , who came from a Bremen council family. On June 29, 1627 Graevaeus himself was elected councilor. He died in Bremen in 1639.

meaning

The Practicae Conclusiones Juris (practical legal conclusions) published by Graevaeus in 1603 represent a commentary on the Practicae observationes (practical observations) by the Cologne receptionist Andreas von Gaill , published 25 years earlier . They have been quoted a lot by the authors of the Usus modernus pandectarum and reprinted several times .

As Bremen councilor, Graevaeus was involved in winning over the officer Wilhelm von Calcum to join the services of the city of Bremen. He also led a legal battle against his council colleague Hermann Bokelmann.

The portraits that Wolfgang Heimbach von Graevaeus and his wife Christine, b. Steding are among the painter's most famous works.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So Wilhelm Hurm , Descriptive Directory of Paintings and Sculptures of the Kunstverein zu Bremen, 1892, p. 45 (to No. 57).
  2. ^ So Johann Suibert Seibertz , Westphalian contributions to German history, Volume 2, 1823, p. 290, digitized
  3. ↑ Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , Allgemeine Gelehrten Lexikon, Volume 2, Leipzig 1750, Sp. 1175 (under "Greve") digitized .
  4. ^ Johann Suibert Seibertz, Westphalian contributions to German history, Volume 2, 1823, p. 290, digitized .
  5. ^ Emil Waldmann , Two portraits from Bremen and their painter Christian Wolffgang Heimbach, Yearbook of the Bremen Collections 1 (1908) 44–51, 45 digitized ; the dissertation by Heinrich Walbom from Minden, dedicated to Graevaeus, titled Graevaeus as Commissarius and Consilarius Intimus of the Margrave of Brandenburg, cf. Johannes Wissel (praeses), Henricus Walbom (respondens), De rebus creditis, diss. iur. Helmaestadi 1620, digitized .
  6. ↑ Hurm, p. 45.
  7. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation, Volume 1, Bremen 1818, p. 143 digitized
  8. ^ Ernst von Schaumburg , Wilhelm von Calckum called Lohhausen, Elberfeld 1866, p. 85 digitized

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personal data
SURNAME Graevaeus, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greve, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Bremen councilor
DATE OF BIRTH 1564 or 1565
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1639
Place of death Bremen