Johann Gottfried Kraus

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Johann Gottfried Kraus (also: Krause ; born November 1, 1680 in Freiberg ; † September 1, 1739 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The son of the Freiberg notary Georg Gregor Krause and his wife Lucretia (née Hofmann) had received his rudimentary educational background from his father and attended the grammar school in his hometown. On July 17, 1700 he began studying law at the University of Wittenberg. His teachers at that time included Gottfried Strauss , Georg Michael Heber , Johann Heinrich von Berger , Gottfried Suevus the Younger (1652–1718), Caspar Heinrich Horn and Johann Balthasar Wernher . Funded by these, he passed his bar exam on May 11, 1703 and participated in the lectures of the law faculty with further dissertations.

After completing his dissertation Qua Dispositio Legis IC Quando Libellus Principi Datus Litis Contestationem Faciat. Evolvitur on November 10, 1706 Licentiate in Law had become, he received his doctorate at the October 2, 1710 to the doctor of the rights. On October 16, 1717, he entered the Senate of the Wittenberg Law Faculty as an assessor , became a substitute at the Law Faculty on March 8, 1719, and in 1722 was the first associate professor to take over the chair of Saxon law. In 1726 he was promoted to full professor of the institutions and in 1735 had become professor of the Pandects . With that professorship he was given the ordinate at the court court and Schöppenstuhl in Wittenberg and also the office of assessor at the Saxon regional court of Lower Lusatia.

Kraus was also involved in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg University. He was elected dean of the law faculty several times and rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters 1731, 1733 and 1739 . However, he died in his last term of office and was buried on September 6th in the Wittenberg Castle Church. Here an epitaph was built for him , but it was destroyed in the Seven Years War . In his will he bequeathed 30 guilders to the academic widows' treasury.

family

On October 8, 1708, Kraus married Christina Elisabeth, the daughter of the electoral council of appeals, assessor at the law faculty and council syndicate Johann Paul Schröter. The following children are known from marriage:

  • August Paul Gottfried (* August 7, 1709 in Wittenberg; † March 11, 1729 in Wittenberg) Mag. Phil. And Jur.
  • Christina Elisabeth (born October 1, 1711 in Wittenberg, † March 4, 1746 in Wittenberg) married. June 7, 1734 with Johann Gottlob Weidler
  • Maria Sophia (born December 28, 1713 in Wittenberg, † March 3, 1771 in Wittenberg)
  • Euphrosina Christiana (March 12, 1716 in Wittenberg; † May 24, 1795 in Wittenberg)
  • Georg Friedrich Kraus (born March 10, 1718 in Wittenberg, † January 4, 1784 in Wittenberg)
  • Johanna Maria (July 19, 1720 in Wittenberg)
  • Johann Karl (born February 1, 1722 in Wittenberg)
  • Gottfried Ludwig (born August 16, 1723 in Wittenberg)
  • Johanna Dorothea (born April 27, 1727 in Wittenberg)

Works

Von Kraus is familiar with a large number of dissertations that were written in the university and for which he was present. He has also published the following works of his own:

  • Dissertationem Inauguralem Juridicam, Qua Dispositio Legis IC Quando Libellus Principi Datus Litis Contestationem Faciat. Wittenberg 1706
  • Programma de usu et praestantia iuris Romani-Germanici atque Saxonici. Wittenberg 1722
  • Dissertation ... of what is right with regard to persuasion in d. Engagements. Wittenberg 1724
  • Tractatio Synoptica Processus Judiciarii Potissimum Saxonici Electoralis Moderni In Usus Auditorum Conscripta. Wittenberg 1725
  • De iure degradationis canonicae eiusque vsu in terris protestantium; Occ. cap. 2 de poenis in VI. Wittenberg 1727
  • De usucapione et praescriptione. Wittenberg 1733
  • De juribus relictorum in con nosu debitoris mortui. Wittenberg 1737

literature

  • Wolf Balthasar Adolf von Steinwehr : Speech in memory of Mr. Prof. Krause zu Wittenberg. In: Writings of the Leipzig German Society. Part 3, 1739
  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
  • Johann Christian Jahn: Righteous Tears Sacrifice ... 1739 (Funeral Sermon Protestant Preacher Seminar Wittenberg Reg .: Fun 626)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3; Halle (Saale), 1966
  2. ↑ The monuments of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Böhlau, Weimar 1979
  3. ↑ cf. also church records Wittenberg
personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krause, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1739
Place of death Wittenberg