Christoph Bluemblacher

Christoph Bluemblacher (~ February 17, 1624 in Salzburg ; † November 2, 1674 there ) was a Salzburg lawyer and university professor.

Life

Christoph Andreas Bluemblacher (Blumblacher, Bluemlacher, Blumlacher) was baptized on February 17, 1624 in Salzburg Cathedral . He attended high school in his hometown and then studied philosophy at the Benedictine University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1642 and a master's degree in 1643. After two semesters of theology he switched to jurisprudence and defended his final theses for the licentiate in October 1648.

In the same year he received a position as court attorney and two years later the court registry. In 1655, Prince Archbishop Guidobald Graf Thun appointed him court chamber procurator and at the same time awarded him the title of councilor. In the meantime he has obtained a doctorate in both rights, and in 1657 he was appointed to the position of Professor of the Institutions at the University of Salzburg . In his contract of employment, he was given the right to part-time business, which he used extensively. In 1667 he again took over the court chamber procuracy and from 1670 he regularly took part in the meetings of the court council. Another source of income was renting to well-off students, including a great-nephew of Abbot Martin Greysing from Schlägl Abbey (who fathered an illegitimate child with a maid and was therefore expelled) and a ward of Abbot Placidus Hieber from Lambach .

Hieber was also one of Bluemblacher's supporters, as evidenced by a correspondence that has been preserved. In 1661 he supported him financially in the publication of a treatise on inheritance law. Out of gratitude, Bluemblacher dedicated the work to the Upper Austrian provincial estates. When the higher-paid chair for the Pandects became vacant after the departure of the law professor Franz Matthias von May to Speyer in 1671 , Bluemblacher took over. In the academic years 1660/61, 1664/65, 1668/69 and 1672/73 he was dean of the law faculty.

As a lawyer and university professor, Bluemblacher devoted himself not only to legal theory, but also published several works on practical application, wrote a number of expert reports and also influenced the case law of the court. He also appeared as a plaintiff. His most important work is the commentary on the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina , which “formed the basis of territorial criminal justice in Salzburg up to secularization” (Brandhuber, p. 156). It was also important to Bluemblacher that the theses defended by his students appeared in print, including those of his son Christoph Ludwig (dedicated to the Prince-Bishop of Gurk, Polycarp Count Kuenburg ). Bluemblacher's last candidate was the future Abbot Martin Resch von Kremsmünster.

Soon afterwards Bluemblacher fell ill with a heated fever and died on November 2, 1674 in Salzburg. He was buried on November 3, 1674 as the second in the newly built crypt under the Sacellum . His eldest son, Christoph Ludwig, from his marriage to Dorothea Greinwald from Berchtesgaden in 1651, had an epitaph that has been preserved to this day placed under the organ gallery.

Works

• Epitome Possessionum, Ac Remediorum Pro Eisdem Competentium (Preses: Ranbeck, Aegidius). Salisburgi 1648
• Tractatus De Iure Emphiteutico, Vitalitio, Et Iure Precariae, Vulgo Von Erbrecht / Leibgeding / and Freystifftrecht. Salisburgi 1661, 1715
• Libellus De Tutelis = guardianship book. Salisburgi 1668, 1741
• Commentarius In Kayser Carl deß Fünfften / und deß Heil. Rom. Reich's embarrassing Halß court order. Salisburgi 1670, 1678, 1694 etc.

literature

• Agidius Kolb: Presidium and professorial committee of the Benedictine University of Salzburg. In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg; 102, pp. 117-166 (1962)
• Magnus Sattler: Collectaneen sheets on the history of the former Benedictine University of Salzburg. Kempten 1890, p. 687f.
• Judas Thaddäus Zauner : Biographical news from the Salzburg law teachers from the foundation of the university to present times, Salzburg 1789, pp. 14-16
• Christoph Brandhuber: Gymnasium mortis: the sacellum of the University of Salzburg and its crypt. Salzburg University Library; edited by Ursula Schachl-Raber; with photographs by Hubert Auer. Müry Salzmann, Salzburg [2014], p. 156

Web links

• Bluemblacher, Christoph , index entry: German biography, (April 12, 2018)