Johann Münch

Johann Münch (also: Monachus, Mönch, Münnich ; * August 15, 1536 in Schneeberg ; † August 10, 1599 in Leipzig ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Johann Münch was the son of the councilor, judge and later Saxon-Weimar mountain and hut manager in Saalfeld Georg Münch and his wife Magaretha, daughter of Johann Henning (otherwise known as Reuter). He had initially attended school in his hometown. In 1554 he went to Jena, where he was one of the first students at the newly founded university and under the dean Christoph von Dürfeld (around 1525; † 23 May 1583 in Speyer) acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in 1560 . In 1566 he accompanied some patrician sons from Augsburg to France and had completed three years of legal studies at the University of Burgos .

He came to Italy via the universities in Switzerland, where he stayed for some time at the University of Padua . When he returned to Germany, he had studied in Jena for another year and continued his studies at the University of Tübingen . From here he moved to the University of Basel , where he received his doctorate in law under the dean of Basilius Amerbach (1534–1591). After his doctorate, he entered the service of Duke Johann Wilhelm von Sachsen-Weimar , who appointed him professor at the University of Jena in 1579 and appointed him to the court there.

In 1587 he was hired by the Nuremberg council as a lawyer and in May 1588 he was appointed professor and full professor at the Leipzig Faculty of Law. In Leipzig he was elected to the city council in 1594. In 1596 he became mayor of the city of Leipzig. His second term as mayor ended his death. Münch also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semester of 1593 . His body was buried on August 12th in Leipzig's Nikolaikirche .

Münch was married twice. His first marriage was in Jena with Regina, the daughter of Joachim Gündelfinger and his wife, a born Rehmin from Augsburg. This marriage resulted in seven children, of which two sons and two daughters outlived their father.

His second marriage was in Leipzig in 1590 with Brigitta, widow of Laurentius Lindemann. The marriage remained childless.

Works

• Defensorium Juris
• Commentaria in decretales
• Practicam Judiciariam
• Tractatum de jurisdictione et desertoribus juris.

literature

• Cornelius Becker: Christian funeral sermon at the funeral of the venerable, honorable, highly learned and highly wise Mr. Johan Münnich's JVD Weiland Chur and the electoral Saxon councilor, ordinarian and professor. Also the mayor and the Schöppenstuhl here at Leipzig Assessoris, and Thumbherrns at Merseburg ... Verlag Michael Lantzenberger, Leipzig, 1599
• Mönch or Monachus (Johann). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 21, Leipzig 1739, column 790.
• Johann Friedrich von Schulte:  Münch, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 716.