Heinrich Brockes II.

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Heinrich Brokes, engraving by Christian Fritzsch (before 1768)
Heinrich Brockes II., Epitaph portrait
Grave monument in the Marienkirche in Lübeck
Family coat of arms

Heinrich Brockes II. (Also: Hinrich Brokes ; * August 15, 1706 in Lübeck ; † May 21, 1773 in Lübeck) was a German lawyer and mayor of Lübeck.

Life

Brockes was the descendant of Lübeck's mayor Heinrich Brockes I and the son of the lawyer Dr. Johan Brokes, inheritance owner in Krempelsdorf , just west of the city gates. From 1717 to 1725 Brockes visited the Katharineum in his hometown Lübeck. In 1725 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg and began studying philosophy and law. He later moved to the University of Halle to continue his studies under Christian Thomasius , and then went to Leipzig . Returned to Wittenberg in 1730 , he obtained a doctorate in law. Ten years later he became associate professor of law and associate associate at the law faculty at the same place.

In 1743 he accepted the offer of a full professorship at the University of Jena and became an assessor in the Schöppenstuhl . As a result, he became assessor at the court in 1744, professor of the Pandects in 1747 (and thus assessor of the law faculty) and in 1748 was appointed to the ducal Saxon-Gotha and Altenburg councilor. Brockes also took part in the organizational tasks of the Salana and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semester of 1751 . In 1753 he returned to his native city of Lübeck, where he became the first lawyer , consistorial president and in 1768 the third mayor of the Hanseatic city .

He was married to the daughter of the Wittenberg professor Jakob Karl Spener .

Today, Brockesstraße in Lübeck's St. Lorenz district commemorates the Brockes family .

Works

In addition to academic dissertations and programs, Brockes wrote several Latin compendia on institutions, Roman legal history, pandects, feudal law, and the art of speaking. He re-edited Christoph Frank's “Institutiones juris cambialis” and in 1765 wrote “Salectae observationes forenses”. In it he deals with the old Lübeck law and the Wisby sea trade law in transcripts .

In the Lübeck city archive, Brocke's manuscript has been preserved under the title Collectio Inscriptorum Lubecensium , in which he recorded all the inscriptions on buildings in Lübeck that were preserved during his time. Since it still contains lost inscriptions, the directory has become an important source of the city's history.

Inscription of the funerary monument

His epitaph is on the east wall of the southern porch of Lübeck's Marienkirche and shows the following Latin inscription:

IN MEMORIAM VIRI MAGNIFICI ILLUSTRIS CONSULTISSIMI HENRICI BROKES I (URIS) U (TRIUSQUE) D (OCTOR) HERED (IS) KREMPELSD (ORF) SER (ENISSIMI) DUC (IS) GOTHA CONS (ULARIS) AUL (AE) PRIMUM PROF. WITTE (N) B (ERG) POST PROF. PAND (ECTARUM) APUD IENENSESTUM PATRIAE REIP (UPLICAE) LUBECAE SYND (ICUS) PRIM (US) ET TANDEM EIUSDEM REIP (UBLICAE) LUBEC (AE) CONSULIS IMMORTALITER MERITI SENIS LXVII ANN (IS) I MDCCLXXIII THE XII ) PIE (TATE) DEFUNCTI HOC MONUMENTUM EXSTRUENDUM CURARUNT ET VIDUA MOESTISSIMA ET HERES TRISTISSIMUS

Translation: In memory of the great, respected and thoughtful man Heinrich Brokes, doctor of both rights (secular and ecclesiastical) hereditary lord of Krempelsdorf; Councilor of the Duke of Gotha; previously professor in Wittenberg, later professor of the Pandects in Jena; first syndic of the city of Lübeck and finally mayor of the same city of Lübeck. After immortal merit, he died in piety on May 21, 1773 at the age of 67. This monument was erected by both the most grieving widow and the deeply saddened heir.

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