Johann Stucke

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Johann Stucke (also: Johannes Stuckius or Johannes Stuck ; * July 24, 1587 in Langenhagen ; † January 7, 1653 in Stade ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Johann Stucke was born on Meierhof No. 9 in the church peasantry in the village of Langenhagen as the son of the Calenberg church official Jobst Stucke and his wife Elisabeth Engelke; he attended the Latin School (later the Ratsgymnasium ) in Hanover. In 1603 he moved to the University of Helmstedt , where he devoted himself to studying law. In 1610 he moved to the University of Marburg , then went to the University of Heidelberg and had his first practical experience in legal practice at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer. During a cavalier tour through France, he had received the legal doctorate in 1612 at the University of Orléans , was employed by Duke Friedrich Ulrich zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg as court judge in Wolfenbüttel in 1613 and in the same year became professor of the institutions at the University of Helmstedt.

After the death of Andreas Cludius in 1616 he took over his professorship of the Codex, was appointed to the council in 1617 and worked in Helmstedt for twenty-three years. Because of his merits, the paternal court was granted the rights of a free court by Duke Friedrich Ulrich in 1629. After Friedrich Ulrich's death, Stucke was appointed by Duke August the Elder of Celle in 1634 to participate in the negotiations for the division of the country, became Vice Chancellor in 1636 and Chancellor Georgs von Braunschweig-Calenberg in 1638 . For his sovereign he was active in diplomatic missions mainly in Denmark and after his death in 1641 resigned from civil service in order to devote himself again to scientific work. Nevertheless, he remained an advisor to Georg's successor.

In 1649 he followed a call from Queen Christina of Sweden and, as a privy councilor and chancellor, took over the government of the duchies of Bremen and Verden , based in Stade, which had been ceded to Sweden . He had earned merit by bringing the Swedish crown closer to the state of Braunschweig, which was sealed in the Hildesheimer Bund of 1652. This succeeded in reorganizing the Lower Saxon imperial circle and in constituting the Protestant princely party, which opposed the emperor at the Diet of 1653/54. The Chancellor could no longer prevent Sweden from falling away from this party because he died of a sudden colic. His body was buried on February 10, 1653 at the royal court church in Stade.

family

Stucke was married twice. His first marriage was on November 28, 1613 in Hanover with Anna Marie (born August 13, 1593; † December 9, 1639 in Hildesheim, buried on January 13, 1639 in the parish church of St. Georg Hanover), the daughter of the princely Brunswick Court and consistorial councilor Johann Tedner († 1610) and his wife Anna Mattenberg. The marriage resulted in five sons and eight daughters, of whom two sons and four daughters survived their father, whose one daughter Anna Maria Stucke (1616–1694) became the wife of the famous Hermann Conring .

Stuckes second marriage to Ilse Sophie von Dassel, the widow of the lawyer Thomas Sobbe, at the end of 1640, remained childless.

Works

  • De defensione necessaria s. moderamine inculpatae tutelae . 1623.
  • De vindicta et defensione . 1629.
  • Dispvtatio ivridica de ivrisprvdentiae natvra . 1622.
  • De beneficiis juris cum communibus tum singulorum . 1635.
  • De natura et essentia possessionis in genere et specie . 1628.
  • Dispvtatio inavgvralis materiam frequentißimam ac nobilissimam ejus qvod . 1621.
  • Dispvtatio ivridica de fideivssoribvs. 1617.
  • De ivre protimiseos . 1635.

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personal data
SURNAME Stucke, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stuckius, Johannes; Stuck, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1587
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenhagen
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1653
Place of death Stade