Heinrich Petreus

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Heinrich Petreus

Heinrich Petreus , also Henricus Petreus or Petreius (born February 1, 1546 in Hardegsen , † September 22, 1615 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German lawyer and humanist. According to his origins, he was also nicknamed Hardesianus .

life and work

Petreu's family belonged to the patriciate of his hometown. The father Heiso Petreus was a captain in the service of Duke Erich von Braunschweig-Calenberg . After attending schools in Einbeck , Münden and Walkenried , he studied at the University of Jena , and from 1564 at the University of Leipzig . There were among Modestinus Pistoris and Joachim Camerarius to his academic teachers.

From Leipzig he went to the University of Basel , where, according to the preface to his Aulica vita , he stayed until 1575, when he took up a position as court master of two Franconian noblemen. He accompanied his pupils on trips to Switzerland and Italy.

In 1577, through the mediation of his friend Johann Fichard, he was appointed rector of the municipal Latin school in Frankfurt am Main . Initially appointed to his office for six years, as a Gnesiolutheran he came into conflict with the Orthodox Lutheran Ministry of Preachers in Frankfurt, because in his school regulations, which were reformed in 1579, he fought for the independence of the secondary school from church supervision. He therefore took his early departure, which the city council gave him on May 13, 1581.

Soon afterwards he followed a call from Duke Erich II to the school in Göttingen , where he was introduced to his office as the founding rector on April 28, 1586 after it had been transformed into a pedagogy . As rector, Petreus himself taught logic, rhetoric and law. On October 15, 1590, he acquired the degree of Doctor of Law at the University of Marburg .

In Göttingen, too, Petreus came into conflict with the clergy, to whom he did not want to allow supervision of school operations. Having become aware of him through the dispute, Duke Heinrich Julius appointed him in 1591 as court and consistorial councilor as well as inspector of the schools in his service in Wolfenbüttel , which he served until his death in 1615.

Petreus married on October 23, 1577 in Frankfurt the widow of the theologian Matthias Flacius , Magdalene nee. Ilbeck . She died in 1579 and left him the fortune and the collection of precious manuscripts from her first husband, which he later bequeathed to the Wolfenbüttel library . All that is known of his second wife is that she survived him and died in September 1626. His eldest son Heinrich jun. studied law in Marburg from 1613, became a Dr. iur. doctorate and then Syndicus of the city of Speyer . As a lawyer he represented Duke Friedrich Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in his trials at the Imperial Court of Justice .

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personal data
SURNAME Petreus, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petraeus, Henricus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1546
PLACE OF BIRTH Hardegsen
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1615
Place of death Wolfenbüttel