Johann Sibrand (the elder)

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Johann Sibrand
(In: Ernst Joachim von Westphalen : Monumenta Inedita Rerum Germanicarum Praecipue Cimbricarum Et Megapolensium…, T. 3. Leipzig 1743, after Sp. 1382.)

Johann Sibrand (the elder) (born August 28, 1569 in Rostock ; † February 1, 1638 ibid) was a German law scholar and professor at the University of Rostock .

Life

Johann Sibrand was a son of the silk merchant Heinrich Sibrand and his wife Dorothea, geb. Addiction. From 1588 he studied law at the universities of Rostock , Jena (1591), Wittenberg and Leipzig . He then traveled to Italy, continued his studies for two years in Siena and Padua and then spent another two years in France at the Academy in Bourges. In Heidelberg he received on 13 July 1598 Promotion to Dr. iur. After another trip through the Netherlands, he returned to Rostock in 1599.

In 1601 he was appointed to the church visitation council by Duke Ulrich of Mecklenburg . In 1603 he was appointed full professor of the institutions at the Faculty of Law as successor to Heinrich Camerarius . After Martin Chemnitz left , he became Professor of Codices in 1604. He was also the syndic of the university and its rector in 1604 and 1610 . In 1630 he took over the function of Rostock City Syndic, along with the resignation of his professorship.

Johann Sibrand was married from December 10, 1599 to Anne Schilling (1583–1621), the daughter of the Rostock mayor Hermann Schilling († 1621) and his wife Christina Sasse. In his second marriage he was married from 1623 to Catherine Schwartzkopff (1579-1629), the daughter of Caspar Schwartzkopff and Margareta Flenßburg. Catherine was the widow of Friedrich Hein († 1613), a son of the Rostock professor and mayor Friedrich Hein . The first marriage had three sons and nine daughters, nine of these 12 children died in childhood, the second marriage remained childless.

  • Anna (1605–1686) ⚭ 1622 with Joachim Nesen, council member (senator) in Rostock.
  • Dorothea ⚭ with Dr. Deyen, meckl. Court court procurator.
  • Heinrich († 1647), Dr. iur. and advocate at the Mecklenburg Court of Justice, State Syndic, ⚭ around 1627 with Katharina Deutsch (1606–1668).

One of Johann Sibrand's brothers was Ernst Sibrand, a merchant in Rostock. Rostock professors Johann Sibrand (the younger) and Hermann Sibrand were his grandchildren.

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Individual evidence

  1. Entry winter semester 1587/1588, No. 44 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. Something of learned Rostock things ... (see literature)