Georg Tobias Pistorius

Georg Tobias Pistorius, also: Veronus Franck von Steigerwald ; (* January 25, 1666 in Ullstadt ; † January 25, 1745 in Weikersheim ) was a German lawyer and historian.

Life

Coming from a family of theologians, Steigerwald studied law from 1686 at the University of Jena , the University of Wittenberg , the University of Halle and the University of Gießen . After he had married in 1689, he went to Weikersheim, where he occupied the position of a privy councilor and office director of Hohenlohe and was promoted to the syndic of the Franconian college in Limburg by 1730 .

Pistorius wrote numerous legal, historical and literary writings. His most important work is the "Thesaurus paroemiarum Germanico-Juridicarum" published in Augsburg in 1716. In it he analyzes 1000 legal proverbs with a view to the application. He distinguishes between the citing of identical references, the motivation, the thought content to be recognized, its expansion, as well as its restriction or rejection. Sometimes he also goes into the practical application. With this work Pistorius became the founder of legal paremiology.

Together with his son Wilhelm Friedrich Pistorius, he also published a “life description of Mr. Gözen von Berlichingen, named with the Iron Hand /.../” in Nuremberg in 1731. Pistorius had expanded this with extensive explanations of linguistic features, historical explanations and topographical details. This work was later the main source for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's famous drama Götz von Berlichingen . In addition, Pistorius wrote occasional poems and hymns.

literature

• Walther Killy: Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Gütersloh; Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl., 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
• Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017575-4 , pp. 280–281.