Johann Ernst Noricus

Johann Ernst Noricus (also: Nürnberger ; born June 16, 1634 in Nordhausen ; † March 7, 1678 in Merseburg ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The son of Nordhausen theologian Johann Samuel Noricus (1596–1669) and his wife Catharina, the daughter of Nordhausen councilor Hans Apel, came from an old parish family that had already settled in Nordhausen 109 years before him. After taking lessons from private teachers, he attended the city school in his hometown and in 1653 attended the grammar school in Gotha . In 1654 he began basic philosophical studies at the University of Altdorf , where he attended the lectures of Johann Paul Fellwinger (1606–1681), Johann Conrad Dürr and Georg Christoph Dreher (1609–1682).

On the side, he pushed legal studies with Wilhelm Ludwell (1598–1663), Georg Rittershausen (1595–1664) and Johann Kob (1590–1661). In 1655, after a short stay in Hamburg and at the University of Rostock , financial bottlenecks forced him to accept a position as private tutor in Woltrop . In 1658 he continued his studies at the University of Leipzig . Here he attended the lectures on ethics and politics with Jacob Thomasius and Johann Siegmund Schwenck (also Sigmund; † 1670 in Lüneburg), in the legal subjects he attended the lectures of Georg Tobias Schwendendörffer , Quirinus Schacher and Jacob Born (the elder) . Led by Amadeus Eckolt , he was accepted as a legal candidate, began to give private lectures in 1660, received a position at the Merseburg Council and on October 16, 1661 was a baccalaureate at the law faculty in Leipzig.

After being there on September 18, 1662 the licentiate had acquired, he completed his doctorate on April 2, 1663 Doctor of Rights and was on November 2, the assessor chosen the academic council of the Saxon country team. When he was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semester of 1665 , he followed a call from the administrator of the Merseburg Christian Monastery of Saxony-Merseburg on September 7, 1665 as court and judicial councilor, was director of the government there in 1668 and director of the Merseburg consistory in 1673 .

Noricus died of progressive body decay ( Cachexia ) and was buried on March 12th in the Merseburg Castle and Cathedral Church.

family

From his marriage in 1663 to Anna Sophia, the daughter of the theologian Johann Hülsemann, there are ten children, three sons and seven daughters. We know of these children:

• Johann Ernst Noricus (died young)
• Magdalena Sophia Noricus (died young)
• Christiana Sophia Noricus
• Anna Sophia Noricus
• Magaretha Sophia Noricus
• Maria Elisabeth Noricus
• Christian Noricus
• Christian Ernst Noricus
• Christiana Catharina Noricus
• Dorothea Sophia Noricus

Works (selection)

• Diss. Pro lic. De damno infecto. 1662, 1663, 1664, 1665.
• Tractatus varii iuris civil. Altenburg 1676.
• Notae ad Finckelthausii controv. Feudal. Helmstedt 1655, 1680.
• Vinnii Comment. Ad institutions. Leipzig 1664.
• Annotation. Pract. Ad institute. Gloss. Leipzig 1683.

literature

• Noricus (Johann Ernst). In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon… Part 3: MR. Leipzig 1751, Sp. 976f. ( GoogleBooks )
• Noricus, Johann Ernst. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 24, Leipzig 1740, column 1305 f.
• Emil Friedberg: One hundred years from the doctor's book of the Leipzig Faculty of Law 1600–1700. Alexander Edelmann, Leipzig 1887, p. 19, no.227
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. Volume 9, self-published, Boppard, p. 193, R 8337
• Gustav Früh, Hans Goedeke, Hans Jürgen von Wilckens: The funeral sermons of the Braunschweig city archive: Mass-Oxenstierna. Volume 5, Lower Saxony Regional Association for Family Studies e. V., Hannover 1976, p. 2851.

Web link

• Publications by and about Johann Ernst Noricus in VD 17 .