Heinrich Michaelis

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Heinrich Michaelis (* March 1627 in Lübeck (?); † January 13, 1678 ibid) was a German lawyer, university professor and syndic of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

Michaelis was the son of the lawyer of the same name and doctor of law Heinrich Michaelis, who lived in Lübeck as a councilor to the Prince-Bishop of Lübeck . He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and the Academic Gymnasium in Gdansk before studying law at the Universities of Königsberg , Greifswald and Rostock . After being in Greifswald in 1650 a doctorate in law doctorate was, he was here to by the departure of David Mevius to Wismar Court appointed vacant professor of jurisprudence. As early as 1654, however, he went to Stralsund as a lawyer . In August 1666 he received an appointment to the newly founded University of Kiel as a full professor of the Codex . In 1668 he left Kiel and became lawyer in his hometown and represented it on diplomatic missions. His successor on the professorship was Magnus von Wedderkop .

His son Johann Gotthard Michaelis became a Lutheran clergyman and was pastor at the church of the Lübeck exclave Nusse from 1710 to 1712 .

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According to Johann Moller's Cimbria Litterata , Michaelis wrote four dissertations De inquisitione criminum in 1666 and 1667 , but only one of them has been partially preserved. Ten expert opinions written by Michaelis were announced in the collection of decisions and reports published by the Kiel Faculty of Law in 1669, which the Faculty had given as a panel of judgments or submitted to individual members under the title Consilia Chiloniensia . Its publication was delayed due to his relocation to Lübeck, and it was not until 1673 that Responsorum sive deductorum juris Kiloniensium aliorumque selectorum liber appeared , which contains 26 Responsa . They mainly concern questions of marriage and inheritance law according to Luebian law ; A reply mentioned by Moller appeared against the 23rd report on the extent to which beer brewing and the settlement of craftsmen had to be avoided on the goods of the cathedral chapter and the Lübeck landowners in Holstein (such as Gotthard von Höveln ) for the benefit of the nearby city of Lübeck. The 26th report relates to a detailed question of the lengthy process between Lübeck and Sachsen-Lauenburg because of Mölln and the Möllner Pertinenzien , namely the valuation of the reimbursement amount.

After 1676 Michaelis had his legal treatise De inquisitione criminum printed in Lübeck, which was reprinted in 1686 and 1689 by his son of the same name (* 1652).

Michaelis has remained known for his critical stance on the persecution of witches . In his reports he rejected the indications highlighted by local courts, such as the successful needle test and the lack of tears during interrogation under torture, and insisted on adhering to purely legal procedural rules, which made the prosecution futile in almost all cases.

Fonts

  • Henrici Michaelis JC. Reipublicae Lubecensis Syndici Responsorum sive deductorum iuris, kiloniensium aliorumque selectorum liber, quorum argumenta in indice praefixo exhibentur. Wetstein, Lubecae 1673, digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 61/62 ( digitized version )
  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 in ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 111.
  • R .: The professors of the legal faculty (continuation) , in: Chronicle of the University of Kiel. Kiel: Mohr 1858, pp. 5-7
  • Rolf Schulte: Resistance to witch persecution full text (PDF; 1.4 MB)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacob von Melle : Thorough message from the Kaiserl. freyen and the HR Reichs Stadt Lübeck , Lübeck 1787, p. 417 ff.
  2. ↑ Probably Julii Themicolae Juridische and historical representation of the justice to brew and to hold craftsmen: Which several high nobility of the city Lübeck originarii, or the aristocratic land wealthy there / in their / the territory of the Hertzogthumbs Hollstein enclosed goods ... exercise and drive / The recently response that came to the day ... Hn. D. Heinrici Michaelis, ICti and Syndici at the city of Lübeck / opposed / In some cases this belongs here / most things are also explained by territorial rights ... [Sl], 1685
personal data
SURNAME Michaelis, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and syndic
DATE OF BIRTH March 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1678
Place of death Lübeck