Jakob Rodewitz

Jacob Rodewitz (also: Radewitz, Radvitz, Jacobus Jenis ; * around 1365 in Jena ; † probably 1431 , probably in Leipzig ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

After Conrad Thus (Konrad Thus von Nieheim; * around 1360, † 1435), who taught at the law faculty of the University of Leipzig since 1411 (?) , Jakob Rodewitz was the second oldest full professor there. All that is known about his origin is that he came from Jena and was born there in 1365. According to Friedberg, he was enrolled in Leipzig in 1411 as "Magister Pragiensis". Friedberg's information, however, is incorrect. At the university he belonged to the "Meißnische Nation".

After Erich Kleineidam, however, he obtained his academic degrees after he was initiated in Erfurt in 1388/1400, his bachelor's degree in 1403 , and in 1405 he was awarded a master's degree in the seven liberal arts . There he held in 1407 as a baccalaureus of rights over the decretals of George IX. Lectures that have survived to this day. In the summer semester of 1410 he was rector in Erfurt as "mag. Et. Decr. Bacc." Before he went to Padua in 1411. In the summer semester of 1412 he became rector of the Leipzig Alma Mater , which he held in the winter semester of 1419.

At first he was called the Licentiate of the Decretals. But by then he already had a doctorate. It is believed that he did not become a full professor until 1422 . He taught until 1429, when he was recorded as an absent doctor. With that he disappears from the records. He probably died in 1436. Rodewitz was canon in Naumburg . He probably also wrote the first Leipzig university canon at the Naumburg cathedral chapter .

literature

von Schulte: Radewitz, Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 134 f.
Theodor Muther: On the history of law and universities in Germany. 1876, 1961 pp. 75, 213 ( online reading sample )

Web links

Marek Wejwoda: Rodewitz (Radewitz), Jakob . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

^ Emil Friedberg , The Leipzig Faculty of Law: Your Doctors and Your Home (= Festschrift to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the University of Leipzig, edited by Rector and Senate, Vol. 2); Leipzig 1909, p. 113.-Ders., The Collegium juridicum. Leipzig 1882, p. 91.
↑ [1] The entry: mgr. Iacobus Rodwitz de Geniss solvit .
^ About Rodewitz in Erfurt: Erich Kleineidam, Universitas Studii Erfordiensis. Overview of the history of the University of Erfurt, part 1: Late Middle Ages 1392-1460, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1985, pp. 48 and 401. According to the descriptions there, Rodewitz was an outstanding legal talent.
↑ Markus Cottin, The Leipzig university canonicates at the cathedral chapters of Meißen, Merseburg and Naumburg as well as at the Zeitz collegiate monastery in the Middle Ages (1413-1542 ), in: University history as regional history: The University of Leipzig in its territorial historical references, ed. by Detlef Döring , Leipzig 2007, pp. 279-312.

personal data
SURNAME	Rodewitz, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Radewitz, Jakob; Radvitz, Jakob; Radewitz, Jakob; Jenis, Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1365
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jena
DATE OF DEATH	1436
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Emil Friedberg , The Leipzig Faculty of Law: Your Doctors and Your Home (= Festschrift to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the University of Leipzig, edited by Rector and Senate, Vol. 2); Leipzig 1909, p. 113.-Ders., The Collegium juridicum. Leipzig 1882, p. 91.

[2] [1] The entry: mgr. Iacobus Rodwitz de Geniss solvit .

[3] About Rodewitz in Erfurt: Erich Kleineidam, Universitas Studii Erfordiensis. Overview of the history of the University of Erfurt, part 1: Late Middle Ages 1392-1460, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1985, pp. 48 and 401. According to the descriptions there, Rodewitz was an outstanding legal talent.

[4] Markus Cottin, The Leipzig university canonicates at the cathedral chapters of Meißen, Merseburg and Naumburg as well as at the Zeitz collegiate monastery in the Middle Ages (1413-1542 ), in: University history as regional history: The University of Leipzig in its territorial historical references, ed. by Detlef Döring , Leipzig 2007, pp. 279-312.