Johann Bartholomäus Reusner

Johann Bartholomäus Reusner (also Reussner ; born May 17, 1613 in Wittenberg ; † May 9, 1660 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and senior consistorial advisor in Dresden.

Life

Born as the son of Bartholomäus Reusner and his wife Catarina, the daughter of Johann Zanger the Younger and his wife Catarina Greitzer, he came from a respected family of scholars. After nine months his mother died and his father took over the upbringing of the son until he died at the age of 15. After attending the Wittenberg City School, he began studying at the University of Wittenberg and moved to the University of Jena . His most important teacher in Jena was Erasmus Ungebauer (1582–1659) and in Wittenberg his cousin Jeremias Reusner .

Finally he was able to give lectures and lead disputations himself, and found admission to the law faculty of the Wittenberg University, where he obtained a licentiate in law on September 22, 1642 . He became a law school assessor on November 14, and received his doctorate in law on November 27 of the same year . Reusner settled down as a lawyer in Wittenberg the following year and during this time he dealt with many difficult cases, so that people outside of Wittenberg also became aware of him.

In 1655, Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony had him appointed to Dresden as senior consistorial councilor. He lost his property during the Thirty Years War . During this time he had to endure many adversities that affected his health. He developed consumption associated with coughing up blood and as a result his bowels suffered, so that he was released from the suffering of his death.

family

Reusner came from a noble family in Silesia, which has its origins in Hungarian Transylvania. From there some of them went to Löwenberg in Silesia, where they bought Sickwitz, Rackwitz and other goods. In the 15th century four brothers, Michael Reusner, Melchior Reusner, Franziskus Reusner and Matthias Reusner went to the monastery of Breslau, the fifth Simon Reusner was the only one to continue the tribe. The son Jacob Reusner came from him, followed by Nicolaus Reusner, then Bartholomäus Reuner and again Bartholomäus Reusner, the city physician and grandfather of Johann Bartholomäus Reusner. He himself was married twice. His first marriage was on September 4, 1643 with Dorothea († May 29, 1657 in Dresden), the daughter of the senior consistorial councilor Leonhard Köppel. The 13-year marriage resulted in a son and five daughters. He concluded his second marriage on April 18, 1658 with Anna Catharina, the daughter of the Saxon personal doctor Georg Beltzer. The two-year marriage remained childless.

Of the children are known:

• Leonhard Bartholomäus Reusner
• Rosina Dorothea Reusner
• Sophia Christina Reusner
• Catharina Sibylla Reusner
• Johanna Charitas Reusner
• Helena Gertraud Reusner

literature

• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . (see also: LP Online )