Heinrich Camerarius

Heinrich Camerarius , also Henricus Camerarius (* 1547 in Braunschweig as Heinrich Kemmer ; † February 11, 1601 near Gieseritz ), was a German legal scholar.

Life

Heinrich Camerarius was the son of the Brunswick merchant Hans Kemmer († 1549) and his wife Kunigunde, b. Pelt. He was taught by Joachim Mörlin in Braunschweig and began studying at the University of Wittenberg in 1566 . After just two months, he moved to the University of Rostock . There he was in 1570 for Master's and 1574 for licentiate rights doctorate . He was appointed syndic of the Hanseatic City of Rostock and in 1578 full professor of law at the university. His doctorate in law took place on August 13, 1579. He gave lectures on Luebian law and its modifications in Rostock. In his writings on Roman law, Camerarius represented the humanistic views of Jacques Cujas . In 1583, 1589 and 1595 he was rector of the university.

The city of Rostock sent him to Sweden (1587), to the Hanseatic days in Lübeck and the state parliaments of the Duchy of Mecklenburg . He was the councilor of Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg , Duke Bogislaw XIII. and Philip II of Pomerania , the princes of Lüneburg and the duke Franz von Sachsen-Lauenburg . He refused an appointment to the syndic of Braunschweig in 1588, but was involved in a comparison between the city and Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in October 1600 .

Heinrich Camerarius died in 1601 while on a journey on his return from Salzwedel to Rostock near Gieseritz and was buried in Rostock. He was married to Margarete Dobbin (1554-1626) since 1575. Her daughter Margarethe married the legal scholar Martin Chemnitz (1561–1627).

literature

Fromm: Camerarius, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 719 f.
Johann Bernhard Krey : In memory of the Rostock scholars from the last three centuries. Rostock 1816, pp. 40-43. ( Digitized version )
Otto Krabbe: The University of Rostock in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Stillersche Hofbuchhandlung, Rostock and Schwerin 1854, p. 697f (digitized: urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10703011-8 )

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Ulrich Bubenheimer: Thomas Müntzer. Origin and education. In: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Vol. 46, 1989, ISBN 978-90-04-08850-4 , p. 266 ( GoogleBooks ).
↑ Eckhard Düker: Freudenchristentum: The edification writer Stephan Praetorius. In: Works on the history of Pietism. Vol. 38, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003, ISBN 978-3-525-55822-5 , p. 41 ( GoogleBooks )
↑ Camerarius, Heinrich in the collection of personal publications of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library

personal data
SURNAME	Camerarius, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Camerarius, Henricus; Kemmer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1547
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	February 11, 1601
Place of death	at Gieseritz

[1] Ulrich Bubenheimer: Thomas Müntzer. Origin and education. In: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Vol. 46, 1989, ISBN 978-90-04-08850-4 , p. 266 ( GoogleBooks ).

[2] Eckhard Düker: Freudenchristentum: The edification writer Stephan Praetorius. In: Works on the history of Pietism. Vol. 38, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003, ISBN 978-3-525-55822-5 , p. 41 ( GoogleBooks )

[LBMV-3] Camerarius, Heinrich in the collection of personal publications of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library