Eustachius Jeger

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Title page of the Periphrasia
Dedication sheet

Eustachius Jeger (* 1653 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † January 9, 1729 ibid) was a counselor and author of the Schwäbisch Gmünder legal books. In the years 1709 to 1716 he was also Vogt of the barons Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler .

biography

Jeger came from the respected Gmünder family Jäger vom Jägersberg and was baptized on November 1st, 1653 in the Gmünder Heilig-Kreuz-parish church . His godfather was Johann Wolfgang von Rechberg . He studied law at the University of Dillingen an der Donau from 1671 until his master's degree in 1677 and was town clerk in Weil der Stadt in 1693 . From March 8, 1694 he was a council consultant in Schwäbisch Gmünd. In 1707 he put together two extensive collections of Gmünder Rechts: Periphrasia compendiosa sive Short term and description of the Holy Roman Imperial City of Schwäbisch Gmünde and Gamundia Rediviva . In 1709 he was dismissed from Gmünd because of a love affair with his foster daughter and second wife, Veronika Riegert. He then worked as bailiff of the barons Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler in Backnang , before he became a council consultant in Schwäbisch Gmünd again in 1716, where he died in 1729.

plant

The Periphrasia compendiosa sive Short term and description of the Holy Roman Imperial City Schwäbisch Gmünde is a collection of the current law of the Imperial City Schwäbisch Gmünd. The Gamundia Redivia is an associated reform work with a length of 942 pages. The works were created in 1707 as Jeger's private copies and then quickly gained importance in the Gmünder jurisprudence, they finally became the city's official legal book until the end of imperial freedom in 1802.

literature

  • Klaus Graf : The history of the imperial city Schwäbisch Gmünd in the 17th and 18th centuries , 1981 online
  • Klaus Jürgen Herrmann : Eustachius Jeger, author of the Schwäbisch Gmünder legal books , in: Ganoven, Gauner, Galgenvögel - criminal justice in and around the imperial city Schwäbisch Gmünd in the 18th century , Einhorn Verlag Schwäbisch Gmünd 2000, pp. 14-17.
  • Pascal Kolb: Police law in the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd . Diss. Tübingen 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Jeger, Eustachius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Counselor and author of the Schwäbisch Gmünder legal books
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 1, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1729
Place of death Schwäbisch Gmünd