Johann Christian Petersen (the elder)

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Johann Christian Petersen (the elder) (born April 1, 1682 in Rostock ; † March 21, 1766 ibid) was a professor of law at the University of Rostock and mayor of the city of Rostock.

education and study

Johann Christian Petersen (the elder) was born on April 1st, 1682 in Rostock as the son of a businessman. After he first attended the Rostock city school, he was taught privately from 1698.

From 1700 to 1706 he first studied at the University of Rostock (the first entry dates back to 1698), but then went to Leipzig to continue his studies there until 1708.

In 1708 Petersen returned to Rostock and was the companion of the young nobleman Thomas Hieronymus von Wetken, with whom he went to Frankfurt an der Oder that same year , from there a year later to Tübingen and in 1710 to Leiden . The trip then took the two of them via Paris and Strasbourg to Regensburg and Vienna , from where he left early due to the Northern War and returned to Rostock.

academic career

Through the mediation of his uncle, Chancellor Johann von Klein , Petersen was appointed Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Rostock in 1711, succeeding Johann Sibrand (the younger) in office.

On March 1, 1712, he was appointed Dr. iuris utriusque and the assumption of the duties of Chancellor Klein in the faculty and consistory. In addition, in 1714 he became trustee of Duke Karl Leopold and two years later he was also a representative of the ducal government college.

Petersen resigned all offices when he was appointed full professor of law at the University of Rostock on January 25, 1720 by the city council and replaced his predecessor Matthias Stein .

When he was appointed councilor on January 15, 1731 and took over the office of mayor of Rostock on January 21 of the same year, Petersen resigned from his professorship. From July 1731 he was the city's oldest mayor and from November also a deputy in the select committee. On February 10, 1733, he was also an assessor at the Ratzeburg court.

In 1748 Petersen resigned from the mayor's office for health reasons and was appointed by Duke Christian Ludwig II to the secret chancellery and in 1752 to the real councilor.

Johann Christian Petersen died on March 21, 1766 in Rostock.

literature

  • Parul Falkenberg: The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript around 1900.
  • Something of learned Rostock things. 1737, p. 149.
  • Joh. Bernh. Krey: In memory of local scholars , 5th piece (1815), pp. 46–51, appendix (1816).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also registration of Johann Christian Petersen in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ↑ See Paul Falkenberg: The Professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript around 1900, p. 180.
  3. ↑ See also the entry by Thomas Hieronymus von Wetken in the Rostock matriculation portal.
  4. ↑ See also the entry by Johann von Klein in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium .
  5. ↑ See also the [entry by Johann Sibrand (the younger)] in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium.
  6. ↑ See also Johann Christian Petersen's doctorate in the Rostock matriculation portal.
  7. ↑ See Paul Falkenberg: The Professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript around 1900, p. 180.
  8. ↑ See also the entry by Matthias Stein in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium.
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Johann Christian (the elder)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and mayor of the city of Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1682
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1766
Place of death Rostock