Johann Burgmann (lawyer)

Johann Burgmann

Johann Burgmann (born November 19, 1589 in Greifswald ; † May 15, 1662 ibid) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

Johann Burgmann was the son of the protonotary at the Wolgast court of Joachim Burgmann and of Barbara Papke. He attended the Wolgast city school and then the high school in Lübeck . From 1605 he studied law in Greifswald . Then he went on an educational trip and continued his studies in Wittenberg and Altdorf .

Johann Burgmann was secretary at the court in Wolgast in 1616 . In 1622 he received an extraordinary professorship at the University of Greifswald . In the same year he married Anna Runge (1601–1630).

He was in 1630 ordinary assessors (maintaining its magisterium Assessor ) of Hofgerichtes. During the occupation of Greifswald by imperial troops, he was badly mistreated and lost his wife. In 1632 Burgmann married the widow of the Duke of Mecklenburg Quaestor, Joachim Milow, Sybilla Lange. In 1650 he donated a new pulpit in Greifswald Cathedral St. Nikolai after the old one was destroyed when the church tower collapsed. Burgmann became vice director in 1656 and director of the court in 1661.

literature

• The life of the Weyland Magnifici and the well-known Mr. Johannis Burgmann, his Royal Mayesty of Sweden at the Hofgerichte in the Hertzogthum Vor-Pommern and Fürstenthum Rügen decreed Directoris. Greifswald 1730 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
• Theodor Muther:  Burgmann, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 609.
• 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 , p. 54 f.

Web links

• Literature about Johann Burgmann in the state bibliography MV