Franz Romanus (legal scholar, 1600)

Franz Romanus (born August 31, 1600 in Leipzig ; † December 27, 1668 there ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Franz Romanus was the son of Franz Romanus (1550–1636) and his wife Margaretha († October 28, 1633), daughter of the Leipzig council Friedrich Ofen von Echt (also Bachofen; † 1593). He was born noble (von Muckershausen) and heir of Neumuckershausen and Braußwig . Like his brother Wilhelm Ulrich Romanus , he had attended the Leipzig Nikolaischule . He was also trained by private tutors. In 1617 he moved to the University of Leipzig to study philosophy, especially with Andreas Corvinus .

However, since he was much more interested in studying law, he also heard the lectures of his father and Wilhelm Schmucks . After he had found admission to the law faculty as a baccalaureus on August 7, 1664, he and his brother moved to the University of Wittenberg on November 6, 1624 for preparatory work for further academic degrees . In Wittenberg he was accepted by Jeremias Reusner , who also continued to teach him.

He would have liked to go on a scholarly trip to other countries with his brother, but the dangers of the Thirty Years' War and the rampant epidemics prevented it. They went back to Leipzig, where he acquired on 16 November 1626 the licentiate in law and a doctorate on July 12, 1627 for Doctor of rights. Subsequently he worked as a substitute for his father from 1630 , held lectures at the law faculty and on September 7, 1639 became assessor of the law faculty.

On April 10, 1644 he became fifth professor with the title de Verborum Significatione et de Regulis Juris and rose on July 26, 1645 to the professorship of the code . On October 16, 1644 he became a canon of the Merseburg Monastery , and on October 15, 1645 syndic of the academy. He had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig Academy when he took up the post of rector of the Alma Mater for the winter semester on October 16, 1643 .

He was an assessor at the Leipzig Court of Justice and a sub-senior of the law faculty.

Franz Romanus died in December 1668 of complications from a stomach ailment (stomach cancer?). He was buried on January 3, 1669 in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig .

family

Romanus was married twice. He concluded his first marriage on August 30, 1631 with Gertraud (born April 11, 1614 in Leipzig; † July 25, 1648 there, born July 28, 1648 in Leipzig's Paulinerkirche), daughter of the electoral Saxon upper district tax collector and council, as well as head of the St. Johannis Hospital in Leipzig Chilian Graefe and his wife Catharina Scipio († 1620), the daughter of the lawyer Johannes Scipio. From this marriage there were five sons and five daughters, of whom three sons and four daughters died early. He concluded his second marriage on August 14, 1650 in Leipzig with Blandia Dorothea, the daughter of the Halle lawyer and princely Magdeburg councilor Friedrich Kühn (born March 17, 1599 in Halle (Saale); † October 30, 1654 ibid). There were six children from this marriage, three of whom died in childhood. It is known about the children:

• Paul Franz Romanus
• Caspar Theolphil Romanus († 1685)
• Catharina Romanus (* 1631) married. with Benedikt Strauss
• Gertraud Romanus (* 1631; † young)
• Friedrich Romanus
• Franz Romanus
• Dorothea Sophia Romanus

Works (selection)

He wrote 18 dissertations that he wrote between 1626 and 1665. Four programs 1630 to 1667 are also known.

• Disputatio Iuridica De Fideiussoribus. Leipzig 1626
• Decas Quaestionum Miscellanearum Controversarum. Leipzig 1629
• Disp. Legalium Decima, De Peculiis Filiorum-Familias. Leipzig 1642
• Disp. Iuridica Prima De Testamentis: Continens Definitions, Divisionem & Causam Efficientem. Leipzig 1646
• Disp. Iuridica, De Interpretatione Legis Restrictiva. Leipzig 1651
• Diss. De Pignoribus Et Hypothecis. Leipzig 1651
• Decadem Casuum Ex munifica & larga concessione Collegii Iuridici. Leipzig 1656
• De potestate maritali.
• De pignoribus et hypothecis. Leipzig 1651
• De legatis. Leipzig 1659
• De juribus virorum singularibus. Leipzig 1660
• De emancipatione liberorum. Leipzig 1658
• De fidejussoribus.

literature

• Romanus, Frantz, the younger. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 32, Leipzig 1742, column 721.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon. Volume 3, Leipzig 1751, Col. 2201 ( GoogleBooks )
• Krafft:  Romanus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 100-104.
• Johann Ulrich Mayer: Romanus, Franz: divine consultant of all clerical clients in need of help: like the same the royal prophet David in the 5th verse of his XXXVII. Psalms / the content / Command the Lord your ways / and hope in Him / etc. set up / and Bey ... corpse accompaniment of the ... Francisci Romani From Muckershausen to Praußwigk ... the episcopal high cathedral churches to Merseburgk Canonici, and at this University Syndici So the 27th Decembris of the past 1668th year ... his arduous way of life ended gloriously and blissfully / and the 3rd Ianuarii now running 1669th year / the body after / in the Pauliner Church to his grave rest has been promoted. In a darbey held / and on stopping the pressure anjetzo außgefertigten sermon / Ulrich Johannes Maeyer ... fürgestellet Leipzig, 1669 ( digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de )
• Emil Friedberg : One hundred years from the doctor's book of the Leipzig Faculty of Law 1600–1700. Verlag Alexander Edelmann, Leipzig, 1887

Web links

• Central directory of digitized prints
• ULB Saxony-Anhalt
• Publications by and about Franz Romanus in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. here also his brother's funeral sermon. In: Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard, Volume 3, p. 80, R 1141
2. ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Younger row. Part 1 (1602-1660). Magdeburg 1934, p. 291