Jakob Balthasar (legal scholar)

Jakob Balthasar

Jakob Balthasar (born December 24, 1652 in Anklam ; † May 1, 1706 in Rostock ) was a German legal scholar and Mecklenburg government councilor.

Life

Jakob Balthasar (VI.) Was the son of Greifswald's mayor Heinrich Balthasar († 1670) and Anna Margaretha Hoyer. He received his doctorate in 1681 at the University of Greifswald as Doctor iuris utriusque . In 1682 he became associate professor of law and in 1685 full professor of history and morals. In 1687 he was rector and in 1689 he became syndic of the university. In 1704 he went to Rostock, where he became a councilor and deputy director of the law office.

Jakob Balthasar was with Anna Katharina, the daughter of the professor jur. Friedrich Gerdes married. The marriage had eleven children, seven of whom survived their father. This included the sons

• Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar (1690–1763), theologian, general superintendent of Swedish Pomerania
• Georg Nikolaus von Balthasar (* 1692), Swedish officer, most recently in command of Greifswald
• Augustin von Balthasar (1701–1786), lawyer, historian, Vice-President of the Wismar High Tribunal
• Johann Gustav von Balthasar (1704–1773), district administrator and mayor of Greifswald

and the daughter

• Barbara Catharina Balthasar, later wife of the Greifswald professor of medicine Johann Abraham Mayer .

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Dirk Alvermann , Birgit Dahlenburg : Greifswald heads. Scholar portraits and life pictures from the 16th to 18th centuries Century from the Pomeranian State University. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-356-01139-1 , p. 38 f.
• Nils Jörn: Professors at the Wismar Tribunal. In: Dirk Alvermann, Jürgen Regge: Justitia in Pommern. Lit, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8218-7 , p. 214.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt : News of the life and writings of neo-Romanian-Rügen scholars from the beginning of the eighteenth century until 1822. Vol. 1, Friedrich Wilhelm Kunike, Greifswald 1824, p. 16.
2. ^ Adolf Häckermann :  Balthasar, Jakob Heinrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 30. (in the son's article)

Web links

• Publications by and about Jakob Balthasar in VD 17 .
• Literature about Jakob Balthasar in the state bibliography MV
• Consortium of European Research Libraries : Jakob Balthasar Catalog of Works

predecessor	Office	successor
Christoph Helwig senior	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1687	Nicolaus Dassow