Erich Hedemann

Erich Hedemann (born February 22, 1567 in Diepholz ; † February 8, 1636 in Schleswig ) was a German legal scholar, chancellor in the Principality of Lüneburg and court advisor to Christian IV of Denmark and Count Anton Günther of Oldenburg .

Life

Erich Hedemann became a law student at the University of Wittenberg in 1587 , and later moved to Geneva . He was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. There he became known and famous for his disputations on the Pandects .

From 1596 Hedemann worked as a counselor and advocate for the Celle dukes at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer before he became court advisor in Celle in 1599. A few years later he became dean of Bardowick Abbey . In 1615 he was appointed Chancellor of the Principality of Lüneburg. A focus of his tenure both as court counselor and as chancellor were the disputes that had been going on since 1596 over the inheritance of the principality of Grubenhagen , which in 1617 was judicially awarded to the dukes of Celle. In 1615 Hedemann was appointed imperial count palatine by the emperor Matthias. He was married to Catharina Fischer.

In 1628 Erich Hedemann was appointed Chancellor to Gottorp by Duke Friedrich von Holstein and eventually became the Privy Councilor of the Danish King Christian IV of Denmark and Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg .

With his pamphlets about the Pandects, he also indirectly influenced the creation and development of the BGB (see also: Pandektenwissenschaft ).

Trivia

According to Dr. jur. Erich Hedemann, Hedemannstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg and Hedemannweg in Lemförde in the Diepholz district in southern Lower Saxony were named.

Works

• Disputationes semestres in Pandectas . Geneva, 1596

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For Erich Hedemann see: http://www.rambow.de/hofrat-erich-hedemann.html