Georg Walter

Georg Walter (* around 1420 in Saalfeld (East Prussia) ; † 1475 ) was a German legal scholar. He was the first professor at the law faculty of the newly founded University of Greifswald .

Life

Georg Walter enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1442 as pauper (poor). From 1451 to 1456 he studied at the law faculty of the University of Bologna , where he took the license examination in 1453 and received his doctorate in canon law in 1456 . From 1452 to 1454 he was procurator of the university.

Georg Walter was friends with Heinrich Rubenow , the founder of the University of Greifswald . On the day it was founded in 1456, he became a full professor at the law faculty and a member of the concilium universitatis . He had to read about the Decretum Gratiani and the first books of the decretals . He was dean of the law faculty several times and was the rector's office six times between 1458 and 1475. After Rubenov's death, he received his position as full professor . In 1464 he was vice-chancellor of the university. He was a canon at Greifswald Cathedral and Camminer Cathedral and, since 1469, at the Marienkirche in Stettin .

As a well-known legal scholar and practical lawyer, he accompanied Matthias Wedel and Johannes Parleberg to the imperial court in Vienna in 1465 in order to negotiate the Stettin succession dispute. After Wedel's death, Dukes Erich II. And Wartislaw X. von Pommern-Wolgast sent him on the same mission to the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1471 . Together with Hermann Slupwachter and Johannes Parleberg, he succeeded in 1472 persuading the Brandenburg Elector Albrecht Achilles to conclude a peace treaty in Prenzlau while maintaining the rights of the Wolgast line of the Greifenhaus .

Georg Walter bequeathed his library to the law faculty and his college notebooks to his successor Parleberg, who later passed them on to Johannes Meilof .

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Theodor Pyl :  Walter, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 25 f.
• Stephanie Irrgang: Peregrinatio academica: migrations and careers of scholars from the universities of Rostock, Greifswald, Trier and Mainz in the 15th century . In: Contributions to the history of the University of Greifswald (BGUG) . Vol. 4, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-08085-9 .

Web links

• Literature about Georg Walter in the state bibliography MV