Gottfried Strauss

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Gottfried Strauss (born August 28, 1641 in Wittenberg ; † March 6, 1706 ibid) was a German legal scholar and university professor as well as court and appeal councilor .

Live and act

The son of the lawyer and magistrate Benedikt Strauss began studying law at the University of Wittenberg after completing his schooling and then moved to the University of Leipzig . Here he obtained a doctorate in both rights in 1666 . Strauss then gave revision courses to young aristocrats, while at the same time doing practical work in a law firm.

In 1672 Gottfried Strauss was first appointed associate professor of law at the University of Leipzig and, in the same year, full professor of the institutions . Meanwhile appointed to the University of Wittenberg, Strauss took over the chair of the Pandects in 1685 , a little later the chairs of the Codex and in 1690 of the decretals . In the meantime promoted to full professor of the faculty, he had been elected as rector of the University of Wittenberg in the summer semesters of 1679, 1685, 1693 and 1701 and a total of twelve times as head of the Dean's office of the law faculty.

In the meantime, in 1678, both the Elector of Saxony, Johann Georg II , and the Prince of Anhalt awarded him the title of court counselor. In addition, he was appointed assessor of the consistory and the jury and member of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Poland . But already in 1706 Strauss died after a short and severe illness. On the basis of his services, the Wittenberg rector Wilhelm Berger compared him to the Roman lawyer Servius Sulpicius Rufus on the occasion of the funeral service on May 9th . During his activity, the intellectual and material interests of the university were close to his heart. In addition, Strauss wrote a large number of treatises and dissertations , all of which are listed in Johann Heinrich Zedler's universal dictionary .

family

Gottfried Strauss, son of the electoral bailiff in Wittenberg Benedikt Strauss, and his wife Anna-Maria, was initially married to Anna Martha Gumbrecht, daughter of Pastor Gumbrecht zu Bautzen . He then married Regina Sophia Leyser (1670–1692), daughter of the legal scholar Wilhelm Leyser II. After her death, he married Johanna Barbara Börner, widow of the Leipzig court advisor Kaspar Ziegler and daughter of the Dresden lawyer Georg Börner.

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personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1641
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1706
Place of death Wittenberg