Joachim Stephani

Joachim Stephani

Joachim Stephani (* May 1544 in Pyritz , † January 14, 1623 in Greifswald ) was a German jurist and professor at the University of Greifswald .

Life

Brinkhof

Stephani came from a patrician family in East Pomerania . His parents were Hyppolit Stephani and Agnetha Burckhard. At the age of 12 he attended the pedagogy in Stettin , later studied at the University of Wittenberg and other universities and in 1571 obtained his master's degree from the University of Rostock .

Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pomerania appointed him professor at Greifswald University in 1572 . After obtaining his doctorate in 1577, he worked as a law professor and was its rector in 1587/1588, 1602/1603 and 1610/1611 . He was also director of the Greifswald consistory and syndic of the university as well as ducal councilor.

In 1604 he and his wife founded a poor house in Greifswald, the “Stephanische Convent”; However, Stephani first had to declare permission from the Greifswald council to establish it before the Reich Chamber of Commerce. The management of the foundation was in the hands of the family until the 18th century; it is now part of the Peter Warschow Collective Foundation . The associated building complex "Brinkhof" from 1865 is on the corner of Brinkstrasse and Bleichstrasse. In 1602, the Stephani couple donated an epitaph which they dedicated to their six children who died early. After its destruction by a church tower collapse caused by a storm in 1650, it was repaired again and is still in Greifswald's St. Nikolai Cathedral today . In Greifswald - not far from Brinkstraße - Stephanistraße was named after him.

Stephani was best known for his summary of the Augsburg Religious Peace of 1555 in the formula " cuius regio, eius religio " in a publication from 1612.

He was married to Barbara Stephani, nee Ribow. After her death in 1617 he withdrew into private life. Of their seven children, only Lorenz Stephani survived his father, who like him became a legal scholar and mainly worked in Mecklenburg .

Fonts

• Politicae demonstrationes . Rostock 1576; Greifswald 1599; Frankfurt am Main 1604.
• De iurisdictione Judaeorum, Graecorum, Romanorum et ecclesiasticorum libri IV . Greifswald 1599; Frankfurt am Main 1604.
• Expositio novellarum constitutionum Justiniani . Frankfurt am Main 1615.

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nils Jörn: Greifswald and its residents before the highest imperial courts. In: Horst Wernicke (Ed.): Greifswald. History of a City , Schwerin 2000, p. 293.
2. ↑ Manfred Herling : The University from 1539 to 1815. In: Horst Wernicke (Hrsg.): Greifswald. History of a City , Schwerin 2000, p. 196.
3. ↑ Stephani (Lorenz). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 39, Leipzig 1744, column 1859 f.

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 , pp. 188-189.
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Stephani, Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 93.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Stephani in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Joachim Stephani in the state bibliography MV
• About the epitaph of the Stephani family in Greifswald Cathedral St. Nikolai

predecessor	Office	successor
David Willmann	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1587/88	Christian Calenus

predecessor	Office	successor
Bartolomaeus Battus	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1602/03	Augustine Rhau

predecessor	Office	successor
Barthold Krakevitz	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1610/11	Augustine Rhau