Hermann Westphal (lawyer)

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Hermann Westphal († December 14, 1607 in Greifswald ) was a Pomeranian legal scholar and director of the Wolgast court .

Life

Hermann Westphal was a son of the Greifswald councilor Johann Westphal. He was a doctor of both rights and in 1571 became professor at the University of Greifswald . In the same year he was elected rector of the university. In 1578 he was appointed to the Princely Council and in 1583 to the director of the ducal court in Wolgast.

He was married to Margarete Klinkow († August 12, 1622), daughter of Caspar Klinkow (1521–1560) and widow of Stralsund councilor Jürgen Möller. The daughter Maria was married to the Greifswald law professor Augustin Rhaw .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Contains a description of the state of these countries in the second half of the 19th century. Part 4: Land book of New Western Pomerania and the island of Rügen. Or the administrative district of the royal government in Stralsund. Volume 2: The Greifswald district. Historical description of the individual localities, excluding the city of Greifswald and the university there. W. Dietze, Anklam 1868, p. 1212 .
  2. ↑ Nils Jörn: The origin of the professorships at Greifswald University between 1456 and 1815. In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn, Jens E. Olesen (eds.): The University of Greifswald in the educational landscape of the Baltic Sea region (= Nordic history. Vol. 5) . LIT, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0189-2 , pp. 155–190, here p. 167, footnote 51.
  3. ^ The Rectors of the University 1500–1599. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 27, 2009 ; Retrieved September 19, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-greifswald.de

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SURNAME Westphal, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Legal scholar in the Duchy of Pomerania, director of the Greifswald court
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1607
Place of death Greifswald