Erasmus Unruh

Erasmus Unruh (born August 17, 1576 in Torgau ; † March 10, 1628 there ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Born as the son of the mayor of Torgau Antonius Unruh (born August 13, 1546 in Torgau; † April 10, 1620 in Torgau) and his wife Magaretha (born February 9, 1549 † April 4, 1618, married in October 1573), the daughter of the Torgau city judge Erasmus Sachse and his wife Catarina (married. 1532), daughter of Leonhard Kersten, he came from a respected Saxon family who had previously rendered considerable services to emperors and electors for 200 years. After attending school for the first time and taking lessons from private teachers, Unruh attended the University of Wittenberg on December 4, 1585 , where he first studied the liberal arts.

In 1590 he went to the University of Leipzig and attended other German universities. Returning to Wittenberg, he received an electoral legal scholarship, began studying law and, at the age of 24, received his doctorate in law in 1601 . In 1606 he was appointed substitute for Ludwig Person , which meant an extraordinary professorship and the position of assessor at the Schöppenstuhl in Wittenberg. In 1608 he was promoted to a full professorship and then became an assessor at the Wittenberg court.

After he had administered the Dean's office of the law faculty several times , he took over the rectorate of the Wittenberg University in 1613 and 1621 , where he distinguished himself above all in the economic field of university supply. In addition to his ordinary activities as a professor, he performed the extraordinary tasks of the elector and other lords of the nobility and nobility. 1625 to balance acquired by Johann Georg I of Saxony the Rabenstein Castle , which he was Erbsasse on Rabenstein.

After he complained about fatigue in the limbs in 1627, which also led to the impairment of speech, he suffered another attack during his stay in the Landtag in Torgau in 1628, from which he did not quite recover. On March 8, 1628, his right side was paralyzed, in which state he struggled with death for two days. At the request of his widow, his corpse was brought to Wittenberg on March 12, 1628, via Pretzsch, where a short funeral sermon was held in memory of him, where he was buried on March 16 between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. in the Wittenberg Castle Church. An epitaph was erected there in his honor .

Unruh married Caecilia in 1605 (* 1588 in Braunschweig; † April 19, 1665 in Wittenberg), the daughter of Polycarp Leyser . No children arose from this marriage, so the Rabenstein estate was passed on to her nephew Wilhelm Leyser II . His wife was also buried on April 23, 1665 in the Wittenberg Castle Church.

Selection of works

• De Usufrustu
• De absolute, vera ac propria omnium Actionum in personam & rem distributione, orgine, natura & disserentia & c.

literature

• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 2, R 1442 and R 1293; Volume 4, R 3394
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . 1917
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars . Volume 4, 1751, Col. 1683
• Restlessness, Erasmus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 49, Leipzig 1746, column 1954.
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Unruh, Erasmus", in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 102.