Johann Born

Johann Born (born July 7, 1600 in Leipzig ; † August 4, 1660 ibid) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The only son of the Leipzig citizen and trader of the same name and his wife Anna, daughter of the Leipzig councilor Bartholomäus Scherl, attended the Nikolaischule in his hometown and began studying philosophy at Leipzig University in 1616 . His teachers Johann Friderici (1563–1629) and Heinrich Höpfner (1582–1642) brought him so far that he became a baccalaureus in 1617 and a master's degree in philosophy in 1619 . On the side Born attended the legal lectures with Wilhelm Schmuck (1575–1634).

After obtaining his master's degree, he moved to the University of Altdorf , where he spent a year and a half with Andreas Dinner (1579–1633), Erasmus Ungebauer (1582–1659), Andreas Ludwig Schopper (1589–1643) and Johann Limnäus (1592–1663) continued legal studies. After a trip to Germany, he came in 1621 to Leipzig, found in 1622 as a bachelor of law school admission, completed in 1624 a scholarly journey through France and Holland, was born on November 16, 1626 licentiate in law in Leipzig and earned his doctorate at July 12, 1627 for Doctor the right one.

After that he worked as a lawyer for some time. In 1637 he became an attorney at the Oberhofgericht in Leipzig, in 1638 an assessor at the law faculty and in 1645 fifth professor at the Leipzig Faculty of Law with the title de Verborum Significatione et de Regulis Juris . In the same year he became canon of the monastery in Naumburg and in 1650 took over the fourth legal professorship at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences. Born had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University. In 1658 he was Decemvir of the University, Pro Chancellor of the institution and in the winter semester of 1649 Rector of the Alma Mater. He was also the heir in Hilmersdorf.

Born died of a stroke in 1660 and was buried on August 7th in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig .

family

His marriage to Anna Sophia, the daughter of the Saxon lawyer, secret secretary and councilor to the Saxon Elector Ludwig Wilhelm Moser (1556–1635), gave birth to four sons and four daughters in 1627. Two of these sons and two daughters died before their father. The daughters Anna Dorothea Born (married to the Leipzig councilor and master builder Wolfgang Peilicke), Maria Born and the sons Jacob Born (the elder) (1638–1709), and Heinrich Born (1644–1708) survived the father.

Works

• Disp. De publicis judiciis.
• Disp. De orgine juris.
• Disp. De jurejurando.
• Disp. De Academiis.
• Disputationum Iuridicarum Tertia, De Expensis. Leipzig 1642
• Disp. Iuridica Ad L. 2. Cod. De Rescindenda Venditione. Leipzig 1629
• Disp. Inauguralis De Legitima. 1626
• Disp. Iuridica De Collationibus. Leipzig 1646
• Disp. Decas positionum iuridicarum De Culpa. Leipzig 1620
• Disp. De expensis.
• Disp. De principiis actionum humanarum Themata. 1618

literature

• Emil Friedberg: One hundred years from the doctoral book of the Leipzig Faculty of Law 1600-1700. Alexander Edelmann, Leipzig, 1887, no.192
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Compendioses learned lexicon. Vol. 1, Col. 488 ( online )
• Martin Geier: God the best patron Deme one commands his ways the safest / and who also does it best with us: From the XXXVII. Psalm / vers. 5. Commit the Lord your / [et] c. witnessed at a sizable funeral of the ... Mr. Johann Borns / auff Hilmersdorff / distinguished ICti, professed. Publ. Of the Ober-Hoff -gericht Advocati Ordinarii ... As the same one on the 4th of August of this current 1660th year his sixty-year life was blessedly ended / and on the 7th of this he was brought to his resting room in the Pauliner Church ... Verlag Michael, Leipzig, 1660. In: Fritz Roth: Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal publications for genealogical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1972, vol. 7, p. 315, R 6494
• Born, Jacob. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 4, Leipzig 1733, sheet 390.

Web links

• Publications by and about Johann Born im VD 17 .