Ernst Friedrich von Someting

Ernst Friedrich von Someting (baptized February 24, 1668 in Linz ; † September 7, 1697 in Salzburg ) was a lawyer and university professor.

Life

Ernst Friedrich von Someting came from an Upper Austrian family whose name was originally written Sumatinger or Sometinger. His grandfather Sebastian Sumatinger, caretaker of the imperial castle bailiwick of Wels, was from Emperor Ferdinand III in 1652 . was raised to the knightly nobility with the predicate “von Sumating”. Ernst Friedrich was born in Linz in 1668, where his father Johann Friedrich von Someting was a land clerk. Godmother was Susanna Eleonora Countess Khevenhüller-Frankenburg, widow of the imperial councilor Franz Christoph von Khevenhüller-Frankenburg , who wrote the important historical work Annales Ferdinandei about the government of Emperor Ferdinand II .

After the early death of his parents (1669 or 1677), he attended the Jesuit grammar school in Linz from 1680 and began studying both rights at the Benedictine University in Salzburg in 1687 . His theses on obtaining the licentiate of both rights, which he defended on September 4, 1690 under the chairmanship of canon lawyer and later rector Robert König († 1713), were printed under the title Principia iuris canonici and later reprinted several times. On April 23, 1691 he received his doctorate in two rights.

Since he had good relationships with the Society of Jesus - his two older brothers Tobias and Friedrich (1660–1713) and his cousins ​​Christoph (1650–1687) and Philipp (1656–1691) were members - he was appointed to the chair for after graduating the institutions appointed to the Jesuit University of Tyrnava ( Trnava ). Appointed to the imperial court palatinate, he could u. a. legitimize illegitimate children or issue letters of nobility and coat of arms.

After a few years he returned to the University of Salzburg , where he took over the chair of the Pandects and in 1696 became councilor of the Prince of Salzburg. After the death of Joseph Bernhard Gletle (1655–1696), at the age of only 28, he received the highest-ranking and therefore best-endowed professorship in the Law Faculty, the chair for the Codex and German constitutional law, at his request, but could no longer work, for he died the following year and, according to his last will, was buried in the crypt under the Sacellum .

His widow Anna Maria Theresia von Taxis had an epitaph attached to him in the cross chapel of the Sacellum , which is no longer visible today. She received a monthly grace money of 8 florins for herself and their children, which the archbishop increased to 12 florins over the next few years. She did not enter into another marriage, but in 1715 financed a charitable foundation for the Garsten Benedictine monastery , where her husband's eldest brother was Father Antonius chamberlain and chamberlain († September 6, 1703). She died on April 8, 1715 in Salzburg and was buried on April 13 in the Georgskapelle of the collegiate church of St. Peter .

Someting published several theses from his students and the work Introductio in universum ius , which was continued after his death by Robert König and Joseph Adam Ayblinger .

Works

• Introductio in universum ius: iuxta seriem IV. Librorum, & titulorum Institutionum imperialium. Salisburgi: Mayr, 1697 and more often

literature

• Judas Thaddäus Zauner : Biographical news from the Salzburg law teachers from the foundation of the university to the present day , Salzburg 1789, p. 52
• Magnus Sattler: Collectaneen sheets on the history of the former Benedictine University of Salzburg . Kempten 1890, p. 234
• Egidius Kolb: “Presidium and professorial college of the Benedictine University of Salzburg”, in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde 102 (1962), pp. 117–166
• Christoph Brandhuber: Gymnasium mortis. The Sacellum of the University of Salzburg and its crypt . Salzburg, Vienna [a. a.] 2014 (University Library 4), pp. 174–177