Gottfried Ludwig Mencke the Elder

Gottfried Ludwig Mencke the Elder (born July 28, 1683 in Leipzig , † August 6, 1744 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Born as the son of Lüder Mencke , he was taught by private tutors in his early youth and began studying at the University of Leipzig . His mother died giving birth. In 1704 he acquired the academic degree of a master’s degree , completed his habilitation with the disputation de restitutione in integrum ob metrum and obtained his doctorate in law in 1707 . After he was appointed associate professor of law in Leipzig in 1712 , he became a full professor of law at the University of Wittenberg in 1715 .

With that he had obtained a seat in the Wittenberg Schöppenstuhl and court court. In 1718 he was also given a seat at the Lower Lusatia regional court. In 1719 he became an assessor in the Wittenberg consistory, and in 1732 he became a royal Polish and electoral Saxon councilor of appeal . In 1735 he moved to Dresden while retaining his Wittenberg professorship, where he was appointed court and judiciary in 1737. Mencke also took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg Academy and was Rector of the university in SS 1721 and 1729 .

Genealogically it should be noted that from his marriage on August 21, 1708 in Leipzig (St.Nicolai) to Christina Maria, the daughter of the Leipzig merchant Johann Leonhard Zoller and Marie Elisabeth Richter, who came from the well-known Leipzig councilor and merchant family, the children Gottfried Ludwig Mencke the Younger and Leonhard Ludwig Mencke also gained importance. His son Gottfried Ludwig became the great-grandfather of the Imperial Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck .

Selection of works

Dissertations

De restitutione in integerum ob metum. Leipzig 1705
De novellum glossatarum & non glossatarum auctioritate juris. Leipzig 1707
De rebus geradicis. Leipzig 1710
De juribus reficientis aedificium commune invito socio. Leipzig 1710
Decas I. Sqq. Selectarum controversiarum juridicarum. Leipzig 1711
Deavo paterno ad alimenta nepoti illegitimo praestanda non obligato. Leipzig 1712
De usu forensi Scti Macedoniani in Germania. Wittenberg 1715
De favore pauperum. Wittenberg 1716
De testamento judiciali extra locum judicii condito. Wittenberg 1716
De illegita seudi alienabilis alienatione. Wittenberg 1717
De transactione ex falsa causa. Wittenberg 1717
De jure convenienti subditos in proprio sudicio. Wittenberg 1717
De contumacia leuterantis circa profecutionem leuterationis. Wittenberg 1717
De remissione juramentorum imprimis jure Saxonico Electorali. Wittenberg 1718
De contributione Svecica. Wittenberg 1718
De contributione Svecica. Wittenberg 1718
De eo, quod justum est circa benedictionem in Ecclesia. Wittenberg 1718
De variis feudorum divisionibus. Wittenberg 1719
De rescissione emtionis venditionis ex nunc. Wittenberg 1719
De jure Principis Evangelici circa divortia. Wittenberg 1719
De renovatione investiturae & vinculo obligationis, quo Dominus & Vassalus invicem constringuntur. Wittenberg 1719
Observationes circa processum Saxon. Quo causae injuriarum ex mandato regio de anno 1719 peraguntur. Wittenberg 1720
De eo, quod justum est circa investituram solennem. Wittenberg 1720
De legitima, quatenus ipsi non possit, & possit praejudicari. Wittenberg 1721
De Anfractibus summarii, qui dicitur, processus. Wittenberg 1721
De liberorum & militum ad defectum consensus parentum & chiliarchae nuptiarum nullitate. Wittenberg 1723
De probatione pertinentiarum sendalium. Wittenberg 1723
De praesumtione masculini feudi. Wittenberg 1723
Observationes aliquet fori. Wittenberg 1723
De usufructu mariti ad inopiam redacti in bonis uxorum. Wittenberg 1724
De mandato Caesareo - regio de dato Uratislav. D. 18 Nov. 1706 ultra familiare fideicommissa ad alias ultimatum voluntatum substtutiones in Silesia non estendendo. Wittenberg 1724
De juribus civium Misniae & Thuringiae feuda equestria acquirenti. Wittenberg 1724
De jure offerenti simultanee investiendos. Wittenberg 1724
Non dari servitutem altius tollendi. Wittenberg 1724
De personis cambialiter contrahere prohibitis. Wittenberg 1724
De successione liberorum naturalium in Nov. 18. C. 5. & Nov. 89. C. 12. Wittenberg 1725
De Principe Imper. In promissis usurarum privato factis ad quantitatem lege determinatam servandam non obstricto. Wittenberg 1725
De valida intercessione mulieris, Scto Velcjano renunciantis. Wittenberg 1725
De citatione Principis Commissarii immediata. Wittenberg 1726
De invalidis nuptiis Chirurgi militaris sine consensu chiliarchae in Saxonia. Wittenberg 1726
De Petitorio, possessorio nondum finito in saxon. Elect. Neutiquam istituendo. Wittenberg 1726
Selectae fori observationes. Wittenberg 1728
De simultanea investura foeminis in seudo foeminino ad successionem necessaria. Wittenberg 1728
De residuo pretii ex seudo ob debita feudalia sub hasta vendito. Wittenberg 1728
De jurejurando, in specie de juramentis minorum & impuberum. Wittenberg 1729
De liberorum appellatione in linea collaterali nepotes non continente. Wittenberg 1729
De modo legatis adscripto. Wittenberg 1729
De eo, quod juris est circa carceris obaeratorum poenam. Wittenberg 1729
De crimine Barattariae L. repetundarum. Wittenberg 1729
De obligatione marti ex delicto uxoris inforo inprimis Saxonico. Wittenberg 1729
De eo, quod juris est circa jubilaea. Wittenberg 1730
De eo, quod juris est circa subscriptionem librorum symbolicorum a jure sacrorum in primis Principum Evangelicorum dependentem. Wittenberg 1730
De possessionis turbatione verbis vel scriptis facta. Wittenberg 1730
De sama forensic. Wittenberg 1732
De praescriptione immer´moriali hominum licet memoria deficente, per documenta elidenda. Wittenberg 1733
De jure sisci mero adhaerente imperio. Wittenberg 1735
De reo, cujus citation angustum terminum continent etiamsi comparuerit in termino, & litem non suerit contestatus, non condemnando. Wittenberg 1726
An si quis pro liberis hodie & in Saxonia maxime contraxit, descendentes sub illis etiam comprehendantur. Wittenberg 1729
De veral 22nd §. 3rd family Ercisc. Sententia. Wittenberg 1732
De artibus malorum Judicum & Advocatorum. Wittenberg 1737
De optimo in controversis rebus feudalibus decidendi modo. Wittenberg 1737
Cui a procuratore fisci causarum feudalium revocatoria ex capite neglectae petitionis investiturae litisque contestatione facta probatio injungenda sit. Wittenberg 1737

Programs

Vindiciae benedictionis sacerdotalis, quae novis nuptiis tribuitur. Wittenberg 1718
De origine vocabuli Castri. Wittenberg 1723
De jure cerevisiario civitatum Saxoniae. Wittenberg 1735
De truculentia Romanorum erga debiteres. Wittenberg 1729
De fatis debitorum obaeratorum apud Romanos. Wittenberg 1731
De dissensionibus & logomachiis doctorum cirea divisionem inter seudum haereditarium & ex pacto & providentia. Leipzig 1712
De augmento & odio geradae non arti, sed interest proprio adscribendo. Wittenberg 1731
De variis modis legata relinquendi apud Romanos. Wittenberg 1729
Num pendente causa petitorii idem judex adeundus?
De spoilo inter conjuges.
Cuinam juri, Canonico an civili, praealio sit tribuenda praeogativa? Wittenberg 1717

literature

Mencke, Gottfr. Ludewig. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 20, Leipzig 1739, column 620-624.
Christian Siegmund Georgi : Annales Academiae Vitebergensis 1655–1755
Johann Christoph Adelung : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico: In which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Vol. 1, p. 1502

personal data
SURNAME	Mencke, Gottfried Ludwig the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1744
Place of death	Wittenberg