Gottfried Anton

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Gottfried Anton (also: Antonii, Antonius, Anthon; * 1571 in Fröndenberg ; † March 16, 1618 in Gießen ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

The son of the innkeeper and goldsmith Peter Antonius and his wife Franziska, b. Fischer attended schools in Unna and Hamm . Then he continued his education at the grammar school in Soest , where he also earned his living as an informator for the children of a nobleman. In 1594 he began studying law at the University of Marburg , which he completed on November 1, 1596 with a doctorate in law. He set up a law firm in Marburg and gave private lectures at the university there. On September 1, 1603 he became professor of institutions at the Marburg University and in 1604 professor of pandects . When his employer Moritz von Hessen-Kassel introduced the reformed doctrine in his domain, Antonius, as a Lutheran, felt this humiliation. In order not to be exposed to Calvinism , he went to Ludwig V of Hessen-Darmstadt in Gießen, where in November 1605 he became illustrious professor of law at the grammar school there and his councilor.

With the granting of the imperial university patent by Emperor Rudolf II on May 19, 1607, the grammar school was elevated to the status of a university. Here Anton, who had played a key role in the founding of the same, took over the ordinariate of the law faculty and became the first prorector and chancellor of the alma mater. During that time he got into a legal scholarly dispute with Hermann Vultejus , which found its way into the history of jurisprudence as the Marburg-Giessener dispute. After he had also worked for his employer at the imperial court, at the Reichstag and at the Supreme Court, he returned to Gießen from a business trip to Dresden in poor health. For a long time he struggled with a gout disease , from the consequences of which he died.

From his marriage on November 1, 1596 in Marburg to Elisabeth, daughter of the Syndic of the Teutonic Order at the Landkompturei in Marburg, then royal Hessian-Darmstadt court and government councilor in Gießen Conrad Pistoris (* October 1541; † September 2, 1612 in Gießen) and his wife Elisa Metzger, have had several children. Known are the son Wilhelm Anton and the daughter Elisabeth Katharina Anton (* 1605 in Marburg; † June 6, 1670 in Gießen), married in 1627 to the rent master and chamberlain Nicolaus Stippius (4 sons, 2 daughters, † all before mother ), in second marriage 1660 with the professor at the law faculty Gießen Georg Tülsner (1600–1672).

His brother Johann Antonius was bailiff of the free-worldly noble women's monastery in Fröndenberg.

Selection of works

  • Disputatio de Jurisdictione veteri ct nova scu hodiema maxime quatenus resides in Principe Germano . Casting 1606.
  • Disputatio de Camerae Imp. Jurisdictione. Casting 1607.
  • Disputatio apologetica de potestatc Imperatoris legibus soluta, et hodicrno Imperii statu… advcrsus Hermannum Vultejum. Casting 1608.
  • Disputatio Anti-Vultcjana sccunda, tenia, quarta. Casting 1609/10.
  • Adversaria in plerasque Andreae Gaillii practicab observat. 1629.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Thümmler : Fröndenberg Monastery and Abbey . In: District of Unna (=  architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 47 ). Aschendorff, Münster 1959, p. 116 ff .
  2. ↑ Fritz Roth . Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, R. 7642, R3026.
personal data
SURNAME Anton, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antonii, Gottfried; Antonius, Gottfried; Anthon, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Fröndenberg
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1618
Place of death to water