Jeremias Reusner

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Jeremias Reusner (also Reussner, Reusnerus ; born May 4, 1590 in Löwenberg in Silesia , † September 29, 1652 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Born as the son of the citizen Franziskus Reusner and his wife Martha, the daughter of the citizen Melchior Homberger from Lüben, he first attended the school in his hometown. In the autumn of 1599 his uncle Nikolaus Reusner adopted him and took him into his household in Jena, where he first attended the city school. In 1601 he went to the electoral grammar school Schulpforta , from where he returned to the University of Jena after six years of training and enrolled there in 1607. On December 30th of the same year, he was able to acquire the academic degree of a master’s degree and then began studying law, where he was supported primarily by Virgilius Pingitzer .

After a short stay in his hometown, he returned to Jena, where he held lectures and disputations, among other things. On May 9, 1615, he moved to the University of Wittenberg , where he began to hold public private lectures on June 23. On September 16 of the same year he was promoted to licentiate and on September 19 he received his doctorate in law. He continued his lectures, worked as a lawyer, on August 21, 1617 he became an assessor at the law faculty of the Wittenberg University, on April 16, 1618 lawyer of the Saxon court, on January 20, 1619 he took over the representation of his cousin Bartholomäus Reusner and became on March 14, 1621 professor of the institutions at the Wittenberg law faculty.

Associated with this was a position as assessor at the Saxon court in Wittenberg. In 1628 he headed this as a senior, in 1639 became professor of the Codex , associated with it as assessor at the Wittenberg consistory, and in 1640 professor of the decretals and full professor. In his function as a professor he was dean of the law faculty and three times rector of the university, especially during the difficult period of the Thirty Years' War . During this time his house was ransacked several times, which also affected his health, so that the doctor advised him to visit Karlovy Vary. However, this did not improve his health situation and so he died on Michaelmas Day and was buried on October 5, 1652 in the Wittenberg Castle Church.

Selection of works

  • Methodus juris feudalis, communis et Saxonici , Wittenberg 1632
  • Decades controversarum juris positionum , Wittenberg 1619

family

Reusner married Anna Maria Schröter on November 23, 1618, the daughter of the Chancellor of Henneberg County Jacob Schröter (born September 25, 1570 in Weimar; † June 11, 1645 in Meiningen). He has been married for 34 years and has two sons and seven daughters. You know the children:

  • Christina Magaretha Reusner († 1635 young)
  • Anna Maria Reusner married in 1643 to Count Barby Council, assessor of the law faculty of the university. Wittenberg and Syndic Wittenberg, Dr. jur. Christoph Breßler (also: Bresler, Bressler: * August 21, 1609 Neumark / Silesia: † November 1, 1665 Wittenberg)
  • Magdalene Reusner (* March 4, 1625 in Wittenberg; † November 28, 1654 in Lübben) married on September 19, 1648 in Wittenberg with Andreas Jahn (* September 1611 in Belgern; † July 16, 1676 in Lübben),
  • Katharina Reusner (born October 6, 1633 in Wittenberg; † May 19, 1680 in Halle (Saale)) married the assessor of the Schöppenstuhl in Halle on September 23, 1651 Lic. Jur. Thomas de Wedig (born October 27, 1625 in Halle; † May 22, 1702 ibid)
  • Dorothea Reusner (born June 4, 1634 in Wittenberg; † July 25, 1706 in Lübeck) married Samuel Pomarius on June 20, 1654
  • Johann Jeremias Reusner (* December 23, 1631 in Wittenberg; † February 1, 1652 in Dresden)
  • Christina Elisabeth Reusner

literature

personal data
SURNAME Reusner, Jeremias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reussner, Jeremias; Reusnerus, Jeremias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Löwenberg in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1652
Place of death Wittenberg