Hermann Vultejus

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Hermann Vultejus at a young age

Hermann Vultejus (born December 16, 1555 in Wetter near Marburg , † July 31, 1634 in Marburg) was a German lawyer and the founder of the von Vultée family .

Life

Hermann Vultejus was the eldest son of the scholar Justus Vultejus and Catharina Fett. When his father moved to Marburg as head of education in 1560 , he initially gave his son Hermann private lessons there. At the end of 1563, at the age of eight, he was enrolled in the pedagogy itself, where he learned the basics of philosophy from Petrus Nigidius , mathematics from Victorin Schönfeld and Greek from Bernhard Copius . In 1570, at the age of only 14, he obtained the degree of Baccalaureus.

Vultejus enrolled in the Sapienzkollegium of Heidelberg University in 1571 , where he studied physics with Zacharias Ursinus , mathematics and astronomy with Lambert Ludolph Helm , practical philosophy with Mathieu de Launoy, and Greek literature with Wilhelm Xylander . There were also studies with the Reformed theologians Immanuel Tremellius and Girolamo Zanchi . After three years, he obtained a master's degree there in Heidelberg .

Called back to his homeland at the beginning of 1575, Vultejus held the first teaching position at the pedagogy of the University of Marburg, the place where his father worked, after whose death at the end of March of the same year he began studying law with Regnerus Sixtinus and Hermann Lersner and also with Nikolaus Weigel and Johannes Antrecht , heard his future brother-in-law.

However, in 1576 he set out to Geneva on to François Hotman to hear traveled in 1577 on Venice on to Padua and then went on a study tour, the universities of Bologna , Siena , Pisa , Rome , Turin , Naples , Pavia and Bourges .

After a three-year absence from his homeland, he wanted to return home in 1579, now he was recruited in Styria by a nobleman to inform his children and during this time he became acquainted with many Styrian magnates . Via Bavaria and Strasbourg he moved to Basel , where he obtained his doctorate in law in 1580 after a successful disputation on theses de servitutibus .

Vultejus then planned to move back to Austria, but in September 1580 he accepted a professorship for the Greek language at the University of Marburg. In April 1581 he married Eulalia Adelheid Happel (born December 26, 1566), the daughter of the Mayor of Marburg Wigand Happel , a great-niece of Philipp Melanchthon . After the death of his former teacher Bernhard Copius in the plague epidemic, Vultejus was appointed as his successor to the professorship for law and was appointed syndic of the university at the end of the same year . In 1582 he was appointed assessor of the Hessian Samthof Court .

In 1586 Vultejus took on various diplomatic services. So he traveled as an envoy of the Landgraves of Hesse to the funeral of Duke Adolf von Holstein , in 1587 he negotiated at the Danish court about the settlement of the Holstein inheritance. Further negotiations about the Hessian inheritance of the Schmalkalden territory and the rule of Plesse led him to Göttingen , Trier and Auburg .

In 1589 Vultejus settled the dispute between the Counts of Oldenburg and the city of Bremen over shipping on the Weser in Braunschweig .

In 1592 Hermann Vultejus was appointed rector of the University of Marburg for the first time , and for the second time in 1601. However, the intervening period was marked by serious hostility and intrigues after the government passed to Landgrave Moritz . Nevertheless, he turned down appointments to law professorships in Rinteln and Sedan .

On December 30, 1630, Emperor Ferdinand II granted him the dignity of Comes Palatinus , raised him to hereditary imperial nobility and appointed him Imperial Councilor.

family

His brother Johannes Vultejus (1557–1600) was a doctor in the retinue of Archduke Maximilian of Austria and later practiced in Radkersburg ; his brother Christoph Vultejus (1561–1607) became Danish-Jutland councilor to King Christian IV ; his sister Katharina was the wife of the Hessian Chancellor Johannes Antrecht.

Hermann Vultejus himself had 13 children from his marriage to Eulalia Happel. Many of them died young, the survivors held high political offices or married in appropriate circles.

Works (first prints)

  • Propositiones […] de servitutibus , Basel 1579 ( online )
  • Idea juris logica, de causis juris constituentibus , Frankfurt 1586
  • Disceptationum scholasticarum juris liber unus , Marburg 1588
  • Jurisprudentiae Romanae a Justiniano compositae libri duo , Marburg 1590
  • De feudis eorundemque iure libri duo , Marburg 1595
  • Commentarius in Institutiones juris civilis a Justiniano compositas , Marburg 1598
  • Commentarius ad titulos codicis, qui sunt de jurisdictione et foro competente , Frankfurt 1599
  • Consiliorum et responsorum doctorum et professorum facultatis juridicae in academia Marburgensi , Marburg 1606
  • Tractatus de judiciis , Kassel 1654 (posthumous)

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personal data
SURNAME Vultejus, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1555
PLACE OF BIRTH Weather near Marburg
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1634
Place of death Marburg