Jakob Schultes

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Jakob Schultes (born September 26, 1571 Elbing (East Prussia); † September 6, 1629 in Leipzig ; also Schulze , Scultetus or Schulthess ) was a German legal scholar and Saxon envoy.

After studying law and obtaining his doctorate, he became a lawyer in Leipzig, where he occasionally gave lectures. Because of his Catholic faith, it was not possible for him to become a judge. The refusal to convert to the Protestant faith meant that his appointments to higher court assessor in 1607 and Schöppenstuhlassessor in 1610 failed. Nevertheless he was electoral Saxon council and acted several times as Saxon envoy.

His academic achievement consists primarily of editing important collections of legal writings. Among them are the "Illustrium Quaestionum juris" by the judge and Mayor of Leipzig Modestinus Pistoris and the "Decisiones" by Matthias Colerus . He usually provided them with a supplementary foreword or afterword and individual additions in the text.

He himself wrote the "Quaestiones practicae" (1609/1614) and the "Observationes ferenses" (1613). In doing so, he primarily deals with the area of ​​inheritance law, in which, in contrast to his predecessors (including Pistoris), he not only deals with specific cases, but also sets generalizing rules and norms.

On August 16, 1596 he married Martha Grosse (also Grosse ), the daughter of the Leipzig publisher Henning Grosse and Anna Förster. The marriage had three children. Jakob Schultes the Younger died at the age of 26. The second son Gregorius Schultes also became a doctor of law. The daughter Anna Schultes married Michael Thomasius (father of Jakob Thomasius and Johann Thomasius ) in 1618 .

Fonts

Editor (selection):

  • Illustrium Quæstionum juris tùm Communis tùm Saxonici by Modestinus Pistoris in three parts (Leipzig 1599–1601);
  • Judicial process of the written law, custom and daily use in Germania by Petrus Terminus (Leipzig 1602);
  • Decisiones germaniae hoc est, celeberrimorum, inter germanos, collegiorum iuridicorum res iudicatae by Matthias Colerus (Leipzig 1603);
  • Systema Sebastiani Naevii by Sebastian Naevius (Leipzig 1608);
  • Processus Juri by Georgii von Rotschitz (Leipzig 1613);

Author:

  • Quaestiones practicae (Leipzig 1609 and 1614);
  • Observationes ferenses (Leipzig 1613);

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ German international private law in the 16th and 17th centuries
  2. ^ Fleischmann, Max: Christian Thomasius. Life and life's work. Halle: Niemeyer 1931.
personal data
SURNAME Schultes, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulze, Jakob; Scultetus, Jakob; Schulthess, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1629
Place of death Leipzig