Georg Thebesius

Georg Thebesius (born January 13, 1636 in Liegnitz , Duchy of Liegnitz ; † September 16, 1688 ibid) was a German lawyer and town clerk and syndic of Liegnitz. He also wrote a chronicle of the city of Liegnitz and the Piast dukes of Liegnitz , Brieg and Wohlau .

Life

Georg Thebesius was a son of the Liegnitzer pastor of the same name. After attending the Liegnitz city school, he studied law and history at the University of Wittenberg from 1654 . He then continued his studies at the University of Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate in law on February 15, 1660 . After a study tour through France, England and the Reich , he returned to Liegnitz, where he was employed as a town clerk in 1664 and was promoted to the council in 1667. Three years later he was appointed syndic.

With the death of Duke Georg Wilhelm I , the Liegnitz branch of the Silesian Piasts went out in 1675. As a result, the duchies of Liegnitz, Brieg and Wohlau fell to the Crown of Bohemia as settled fiefdoms . Subsequently, Georg Thebesius was used by the Bohemian sovereign to set up the new administrative structures in the hereditary principality of Liegnitz.

He made particular merits with the writing of a chronicle about the city of Liegnitz and the Piastic dukes of Liegnitz, Brieg and Wohlau. It was only printed in Jauer in 1733 . Its full title reads: “Weyland George Thebesii JUD Notarii Syndici and the schools Praesidis zu Liegnitz. Liegnitzische Jahr-Bücher in which both the merits of this city, as well as the history of the Piastischen Hertzoge in Silesia, from their beginning to the end of the 16th century ... examined ... In addition to a preface, life description of the author and. .. registers edited by M. Gottfried Balthasar Scharffen ... "

Works

• De possessione creditoris in pignore (before 1660)
• Disputatio inauguralis iuridica de scopelismo , Argentorati [Strasbourg], Spoor, 1660 digitized
• De successione liberorum, parentum, conjugum, coliateralium
• De equestribus Silesiae familiis
• De hortis et eorum jure
• Liegnitzische Jahr-Bücher , Jauer, printed by Johann Christoph Jungmannen in 1733 digitized
  • History of the Liegnitz-Brieger Piast . Volume 1: The historical development up to Duke Georg II of Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau (1547–1586) . Lorch 1980.
  • History of the Liegnitz-Brieger Piast . Volume 2: Joachim Friedrich von Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau (1586–1602) to the end of the Piast family [1675]. Lorch 1982.

literature

• Colmar Grünhagen :  Thebesius, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 665 f.