Johann Matthias Martini

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Johann Matthias Martini (born November 14, 1738 in Rostock ; † April 18, 1806 there ) was a German law scholar and university professor.

Life

Johann Matthias Martini was the son of the lawyer and fiscalist at the ducal consistory in Rostock Thomas Matthias Martini and his wife Anna Dorothea, née. Wendecker, daughter of the pastor of the Wismar Georgenkirche Johannes Wendecker (1661–1713). He was tutored by private tutors and then attended the cathedral school in Güstrow . From 1754 to 1759 he studied at the University of Rostock , where he devoted himself to theology and philosophy, law and mathematics. From 1759 to 1761 he moved to the University of Göttingen and studied law, physics and higher mathematics. In autumn 1761, on his return to Mecklenburg, he visited the universities in Jena, Halle, Leipzig and Berlin. In February 1762 he enrolled at the Friedrichs-Universität Bützow and was accepted as a candidate in the law faculty after passing his exams. After first devoting himself to the practice and his inaugural dissertation , he received his doctorate on January 7, 1763. iur. In the same year he worked as a lawyer in Rostock and Bützow. In addition, he was appointed private lecturer with an annual salary at the Bützow Faculty of Law by Duke Friedrich von Mecklenburg . In July 1766 he was accepted as a full lawyer at the Schwerin law firm and in the same month he became an honorary member of the German Society .

On December 17, 1767 he was appointed full professor of law (2nd professorship) in Bützow and at the same time dean of the law faculty. Between 1771 and 1768 he was dean nine more times and the office of rector five times . He resigned his lawyer only in 1782, "after a significant salary allowance had made him financially independent." In 1772 he received the title of Duke Mecklenburg-Schwerin Court Counselor and in 1774 he was appointed Duke Mecklenburg-Schwerin Council of Justice and a real member of the criminal college to be ordered.

After Duke Friedrich Franz I reunified the Universities of Rostock and Bützow in April 1789 , he was appointed ducal professor of law (1st professorship) in Rostock. During his time at Rostock University he was four times a member of the Enger Council, four times Dean of the Faculty of Law, 1795/96 and 1800/01 rector and 1801 vice rector. In 1793 he became vice director of the Rostock consistory, which he headed as director from 1801.

From November 1769 Johann Matthias Martini was married to Beata Amalia von Essen († 1781), the daughter of the Royal Prussian War Council Edler von Essen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Reflections on the duties of a Mecklenburg historian. 1758
  • From the statute of limitations according to Mecklenburg laws. 1765
  • The new history of the diocese of Schwerin. 1778, 1781
  • From the kinship of the Russian and Ducal Mecklenburg high houses. 1799
  • What principles were followed in the Mecklenburg government house when cases of guardianship to be ordered arise? 1796
  • Comments on guardianship in relation to Mecklenburg laws. "Four departments" 1800–1802

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Johann Matthias Martini , entries in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. a b c J. C. Koppe: Now living learned Mecklenburg. see literature.
  3. ^ A b Paul Falkenberg: The professors of the University of Rostock ... see literature.
  4. 22nd Rectorate (1771-1771), 30th Rectorate (1775-1775), 36th Rectorate (1778-1778), 44th Rectorate (1782-1782), 52nd Rectorate (1786-1786). - Cf. Günter Camenz: The Herzogliche Friederichs-Universität und Paedagogium zu Bützow in Mecklenburg 1760-1789. Bützow 2004. pp. 116-117.
  5. Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6361 .
  6. Herzoglich-Mecklenburg-Schwerinscher Staats-Kalender 1804. First part, Schwerin, Bärensprung 1804, p. 76. ( Digitized by Google Books )