Heinrich Rahn

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Heinrich Rahn , also Heinrich Rahne (born February 14, 1601 in Braunschweig , † April 2, 1662 in Rostock ), was a German legal scholar, university professor and rector.

Life

Heinrich Rahn was a son of the lawyer of the same name Dr. iur. utr. Heinrich Rahn († 1603) and his wife Catharina Reiche († 1617). The father was a syndic in Helmstedt and later advice to the widowed Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . After taking lessons in his hometown, he went to the grammar school in Wismar in 1610, where he was under the care of his uncle, the town councilor Matthias Gerdes. From 1616 to 1617 he attended the Ilfeld monastery school . In 1618/19 he began studying law and philosophy at the University of Jena . a. with Valentin Riemer . In 1623 he went to the University of Leipzig, in the same year moved to Helmstedt and from there in 1625 to the University of Rostock , where he finished his law studies.

Around 1629/30 he worked as a lawyer for Gebhard von Alvensleben in Erxleben . Around 1631 he was again at the universities in Rostock and Greifswald and then went on an educational trip in 1632 that took him to Holland, England and France. On July 16, 1633 he was awarded a doctorate in Rostock at the Faculty of Law. iur. PhD. In the same year he was appointed ducal professor of rights / institutions here. In addition, from 1634 he was assessor of the princely consistory and administrator of the monastery of the Holy Cross in Rostock. Between 1637 and 1657 he was appointed rector of the university seven times . Heinrich Rahn died of a stroke a few weeks after his 61st birthday; the funeral speech was given by Daniel Georg Morhof .

Heinrich Rahn was married from February 5, 1634 to Elisabeth von der Lippe (1613–1642), the daughter of Christoph von der Lippe (1585–1652), royal Danish court advisor under Christian IV and Friedrich III. The marriage had five children. In his second marriage, he was married from September 13, 1643 to Elisabeth Stephani (1620–1690), the widow of Lorenz Marquard (1603–1641) and daughter of Lorenz Stephani (1588–1657), full professor of law in Rostock and vice-president of the regional court in Sternberg. There were six children from this marriage. Children known by name from the first marriage were Katharina (1639–1664) and Konrad (1642–1676); from the second marriage Barbara (1655–1656), Christoph and Lorenz.

literature

  • Johann Bernhard Krey : In memory of the Rostock scholars from the last three centuries. Volume 7, Adler, Rostock 1816, p. 14 f ( Google Books ).
  • Karl Christoph Albert Heinrich von Kamptz : Civil law of the duchies of Mecklenburg. Volume 1, Bödner, Schwerin and Wismar 1805, p. 351 ( Google Books ).
  • Something of learned Rostock things, for good friends. Fifth year, MDCCXLI, Warningck, Rostock 1741, pp. 617–622 ( online at RosDok)
  • Vitae et Scripta Magnorum Iuris Consultorum - That is: Complete life and writings of great lawyers. Volume 2, Ludwig, Wittenberg 1713, pp. 120-130 ( Google Books ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1: 005445Q in VD 17 .
  2. ↑ 7: 631939W in VD 17 .
  3. ^ Entry summer semester 1633, Faculty of Law, No. 3 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Entry on Christoph von der Lippe in the register of persons and corporations, Landesbibliographie MV
  5. ↑ According to Vitae et Scripta Magnorum… (see literature) Lorenz Marquard Dr, iur utr. and Royal Swedish Councilor in the Duchy of Bremen; according to DNB 133397076 he was a law student at the University of Marburg.
  6. ↑ Entry in the register persons and corporations, see literature.
personal data
SURNAME Rahn, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rahne, Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jurist, university professor and rector
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1601
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1662
Place of death Rostock