Johann Valentin Neuffer

Johann Valentin Neuffer in the professors' gallery in Tübingen

Johann Valentin Neuffer (born November 12, 1572 in Herrenberg ; † April 5, 1610 in Tübingen ) was a German lawyer and professor of jurisprudence.

family

Johann Valentin Neuffer is the son of the monastery administrator Ludwig Johann Neuffer (1540–1624) and his wife Apollonia Neuffer nee. Moser (1542-1596). Johann Valentin Neuffer is the progenitor of the "Valentinische Neuffer Line". He married on November 22, 1597 in Tübingen Regine Varnbuler, a granddaughter of two Tübingen university professors, the medicine professor Johannes Vischer (1524–1587) and the legal scholar and diplomat Nikolaus Varnbuler (1519–1604). The marriage with Regine Varnbuler had three children, Johann Ludwig Neuffer, who later became the town clerk (head of the office) of Tübingen , also known in Latin as notarius civitatis , Regine Neuffer and Johann Valentin Neuffer junior.

Live and act

Johann Valentin Neuffer attended the Latin School in Herrenberg and Bad Urach . He enrolled at the University of Tübingen on November 26, 1588. There he acquired the academic degree of a Baccalaureus on April 8, 1590 . Neuffer studied later, from April 1595, at the University of Marburg and in the summer semester 1596 at the University of Jena . Johann Valentin Neuffer received his doctorate in 1598 at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen as Doctor juris utriusque . He became a court judge and in 1600 accepted a call from the Eberhard Karls University and took over the chair for jurisprudence there . In 1604 Neuffer became dean of the law faculty, and in 1609 he was appointed rector of the University of Tübingen.

Honors

• Johann Valentin Neuffer was appointed privy councilor of the ducal Württemberg.

literature

• Printed funeral sermon in the Württemberg State Library.
• Reprint of a portrait in the reprint of the Neuffer family tables 1961.
• Herrenberg personalities from eight centuries / selected and presented by Roman Janssen and Oliver Auge. - Herrenberg, 1999. (Herrenberger historical writings; 6). ISBN 3-926809-09-4