Gerhard von Mastricht

Gerhard von Mastricht (also van Mastricht ; born September 26, 1639 in Cologne , † January 22, 1721 in Bremen ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Little is known about Mastrichts' early career. In 1665 he was at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel for doctor of law doctorate . Its whereabouts until 1669 are again in the dark. In that year he followed a call to the old University of Duisburg . There he received a full professorship in law and history. Here he was to teach and publish for almost two decades.

In 1688 Mastricht received the call to become magistrate and syndic of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . He finally followed this call, left the university and moved to Bremen. There, in addition to his journalistic activities and his domestic political work, he made outstanding contributions through his foreign policy activities. His roles were varied, from participating in conferences, for example on coinage in Hamburg , to negotiating activities, for example in Münster . His work met with a positive response in Bremen.

Petrus van Mastricht was his brother.

Publications (selection)

Disputatio Iuridica Inauguralis De Adulteriis , Decker, Basel 1665.
Ant.Augustini de emendatione Gratiani cum orat. Schotti de vita et scriptis auctoris , Duisburg, 1676.
Historia iuris ecclesiastici et pontificii, seu de ortu, progressu, incrementis, collectionibus, auctoribusque iuris ecclesiastici et pontificii tractatio , Duisburg, Johann Friedrich Hagen, 1676 ( indexed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1715 ).

literature

Albert Teichmann : Mastricht, Gerhard von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 580.
Johann Friedrich Jugler : Contributions to the legal biography or more precise literary and critical news of the life and writings of deceased legal scholars and statesmen who have made themselves famous in Europe , Volume 1, Leipzig 1773, pp. 328-340.

Web links

Works by and about Gerhard von Mastricht in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Mastricht, Gerhard von. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 596 (French, digitized ).

personal data
SURNAME	Mastricht, Gerhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mastricht, Gerhard van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1639
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 1721
Place of death	Bremen

[1] Mastricht, Gerhard von. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 596 (French, digitized ).