Gerhard von Stökken

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Gerhard von Stökken (born November 8 or November 28 or December 28, 1629 in Copenhagen , † October 6, 1681 in Strasbourg ) was a German professor of law.

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Gerhard von Stökken was the son of the Rendsburg customs administrator and councilor Hinrich von Stöcken († August 1, 1643) and his wife Abel, née Gude (September 7, 1607; † September 8, 1664), whose father was the Rendsburg mayor Claus Gude . When imperial troops marched into the duchies, his parents fled to Denmark, where he was born. He spent his childhood in Rendsburg , went to school there and then attended a grammar school in Lüneburg . Obviously before 1650 he began studying law at the University of Helmstedt , moved to Leipzig in the summer of 1650 and attended lectures by Benedikt Carpzov .

After completing his studies, von Stökken took over the position of his brother Nikolai, who died early, in 1653 or 1654 as a private tutor to Ida von Rumohr near Kappeln and traveled with her son Cai (1635-1714). In 1655 both lived in Helmstedt. In March 1656 both enrolled at the University of Altdorf. In the summer of 1656, von Stökken stayed again in Helmstedt. In 1658 he obtained his doctorate in Altdorf. jur. In September 1658 he lived again in Rendsburg and probably a little later moved to the Netherlands, where Cai von Rumohr enrolled at the University of Leiden in October 1658. He then probably worked as a court master in England and France and enrolled at the University of Padua in 1662.

Von Stökken then probably wanted to travel to Italy and matriculated at the University of Strasbourg in April 1662. In the years that followed, he traveled as a court master “with a number of noble studios” from Hamburg , the sons of patricians. In 1665 he stayed in Strasbourg and followed a call to a law professorship at the university, which was a benefice of the Canon of St. Thomas . He held the professorship for 15 years, during which time he initially taught the institutions, then the pandects and took over the post of rector of the university three times. His brother Heinrich von Stöcken campaigned that in March 1681 he received a call to the Secret Council of Christian V , which he did not follow.

Von Stökken was never an important person in his field, but was obviously a popular teacher who taught numerous nobles.

Works

Von Stökken dealt with several dissertations on constitutional and civil law and their defense by his students. As a court master and a youth he wrote two major works. He made a thematically structured selection of the "Historiae sui temporis" by Jacques Auguste de Thou and a comparable work on ancient history, which was entitled "Amoenitates historicae".

family

Von Stökken married Anna Margareta Kamm on May 31, 1666 in Strasbourg (* December 6, 1649 - † February 10, 1670). Her father was a master butcher from Strasbourg. From this marriage came a son who died in 1679. On October 5th, 1671 von Stökken married Elisabeth Koob, who was still alive in 1681 and who was a widow of the Strasbourg merchant Tobias Städel. From this marriage came a son born in 1672 and a daughter born in 1676.

literature

  • Dieter Lohmeier: Stökken, Gerhard von . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , pages 249-250.

References and comments

  1. ↑ according to Cimbria literata
  2. ↑ according to the documents of his university
  3. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Stökken, Gerhard von . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 249.
  4. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Stökken, Gerhard von . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 249.
  5. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Stökken, Gerhard von . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 249.
  6. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Stökken, Gerhard von . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 249.
  7. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Stökken, Gerhard von . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 249.
  8. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Stökken, Gerhard von . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 249.
personal data
SURNAME Stökken, Gerhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1629 or November 28, 1629 or December 28, 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1681
Place of death Strasbourg