Caspar Volland

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Caspar Volland (* 1500 in Grüningen , today Markgröningen ; † 1554 in Tübingen ) was Professor of Law, temporarily also Rector, at the University of Tübingen and assessor at the Württemberg court. He came from a wealthy Swabian patrician family .

Origin and family

Caspar Volland grew up in the Württemberg official city of Grüningen , where his family had set the tone for over a hundred years. His great-grandfather Heinrich Volland senior was one of the richest citizens of Württemberg. His presumed father, Philipp Volland , not only ran the Volland trading company, but was also a governor and member of the regional government. His mother is said to have been Lucie Last, a low-nobility heirloom.

After Duke Ulrich von Württemberg and his brother Ambrosius Volland , who was Württemberg's chancellor, were expelled , Philipp Volland also had to flee the country in 1520. Meanwhile, Caspar's brother Michael Volland senior held the position in Grüningen. Unlike some of his colleagues who had emigrated, Caspar Volland arranged himself during the interim and visited the fair.

Professional career

Caspar Volland had enrolled at the University of Tübingen in 1517 and received his Master's degree in 1520 . Between 1523 and 1531 he held the chair for poetry and eloquence in Tübingen and founded a family. From 1534 he was Tübingen town clerk, but returned to the university in 1537 and received his doctorate in 1540. both rights. In the same year he was appointed professor of canon law and for the first time rector. He held this office several times. In addition to his teaching activities, Caspar Volland was an assessor at the Württemberg court. He was freed from this apparently unpleasant additional burden in 1543 in order to be able to concentrate on teaching. Duke Christoph commissioned him in October 1552 to reform the " embarrassing process ". Shortly afterwards, however, the state parliament decided "that the embarrassing right could still remain in decency".

Coat of arms and initials of the patron Philipp Volland in the choir of the Grüninger Heilig-Geist-Spital (before 1520)
Coat of arms of Caspar's son Gabriel Volland (Tübingen 1579)

successor

In addition to his nephew Michael Volland junior, who completed two studies from 1544 to 1554 and was awarded a doctorate in both rights, Caspar's sons Johannes (1542) and Erhard (1548) also enrolled at the University of Tübingen. Because of the merits of their late father, they were exempt from tuition fees. On October 31, 1556, Erhard enrolled again to do a doctorate. On the same day, her younger brother "Gabriel Vollandius Tubingensis" also enrolled, who was finally awarded a Magister Artium in February 1560 . Gabriel became a "Canzley relative" from Württemberg in Stuttgart, where the former church council registrar made an inventory of the Maulbronn monastery documents from 1597 to 1602. Erhard held an office in Reichenweiher in Württemberg . Both were appointed as heirs in the will of their childless aunt Margarethe in 1592.

coat of arms

The fact that Caspar Volland sealed with the traditional coat of arms of his father Philipp Volland is evident from the traditional coat of arms of his son Gabriel from 1579, which shows nothing but a golden gift cup. The assumption that Caspar's coat of arms corresponded to the following improved description can hereby be considered refuted: “In front a golden cup in blue, behind in gold a blue lily. On the helmet between two gold-black split buffalo horns a blue lily. The ceilings are black and gold ”.

literature

Web links

Commons : Volland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Fendrich: The city and its citizens in the late Middle Ages. On the social structure of the Württemberg district town of Markgröningen in the context of state history . In: Volume 3 of the series "Durch die Stadtbrille", ed. v. Working group on historical research and monument preservation Markgröningen, Markgröningen 1987, pp. 94–119.
  2. ↑ a b Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch: Extinct Württembergischer Adel, pp. 183–184.
  3. ↑ a b Ludwig Heyd: The Wirtemberg chancellor Ambrosius Volland . Stuttgart 1828, p. 158.
  4. ^ Heinrich Hermelink : The registers of the University of Tübingen from 1477–1600. Stuttgart 1906. Digitized
  5. ^ Karl Georg von Wächter: Handbook of the private law applicable in the Kingdom of Württemberg, Stuttgart 1839, p. 193.
  6. ^ Heinrich Hermelink: The registers of the University of Tübingen from 1477–1600. Stuttgart 1906, pp. 309, 337 and 385.
  7. ↑ Main State Archives Stgt. to the finding aid of the Maulbronn Monastery
  8. ↑ Hilde Fendrich: The Volland in Markgröningen examined closely . In: Südwestdeutsche Blätter für Familien- und Wappenkunde, Vol. 23, H. 9 (2003), pp. 353–368. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Volland, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Markgröningen
DATE OF DEATH 1554
Place of death Tübingen