Johann Werlhof
Johann Werlhof (born March 12, 1660 in Lübeck , † April 24, 1711 in Helmstedt ) was a German legal scholar.
Life
The son of Johann Werlhof († 1667), who was very experienced in history and literature and who held several honorary posts in Lübeck, and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth, the daughter of the Helmstedt professor and Holstein physician Johann Heinrich Meibom and his wife Elisabeth Oberberg, had his first education in his hometown. In 1675 he came to his uncle Heinrich Meibom , where he began studying at the University of Helmstedt at the age of fifteen . Hermann Conring was one of his academic teachers there . In 1691 he traveled to several German universities and stayed for a while at the University of Strasbourg , with Georg Obrecht in particular teaching him.
In 1682 he moved to the University of Basel where he continued his legal studies, was then in Geneva, with Jakob Spon (1647–1685) in Lyon and then toured French and Spanish coastal towns. He arrived in Paris in February 1683, went to the University of Orléans , where he received his licentiate in law, and returned home traveling via Holland. In 1686 he accepted a call to the University of Helmstedt as a professor of politics, in 1696 was appointed doctor of law and full professor of institutions and criminal law at the law faculty.
At the same time, he had become court advisor to Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and took on organizational tasks at the Helmstedt Alma Mater as rector and procurator of the university. Werlhof, who owned a select specialist library, was considered a thoroughly educated lawyer by his contemporaries. He is credited with a very careful handling of the legal opinions (Responsa) transferred. The poems he left behind testify to an unusual poetic talent.
Werlhof's scientific works dealt, among other things, with questions of international law . He built on research by his chair predecessor Conring and Hugo Grotius .
family
His marriage to Maria Dorothea on November 13, 1690, daughter of the professor of mathematics and inspector of the Duchy of Wolfenbüttel and provost of the Mariental Monastery, Paul Heigel , gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Known by the children is:
- Daughter NN. († young)
- Katharina Dorothea Elisabeth Werlhof
- Johann Heinrich Werlhof (* 1692 in Helmstedt; † October 31, 1717 ibid) studied law from 1711
- Hermann Ludwig Werlhof
- Paul Gottlieb Werlhof
literature
- Walter Hagena: Werlhof, Johann . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 734.
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Werlhof, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, p. 15 f.
- Johann Stephan Pütter: Literature of the German constitutional law. Verlag Witwe Vandenhoeck, Göttingen 1776. (online)
- Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein 1976, Vol. 9, p. 108, R 8175.
- A. von Werlhof: Johann von Werlhof. Hofrath, Professor of Political Science and Law in Helmstädt. The office director Ernst August von Werlhof, Commandeur des Königl. Guelph order, on the day of the fifty-year service jubilee, January 19, 1849. Hanover: Jänecke 1849 digitized
- Werlhof, Johann. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 55, Leipzig 1748, columns 381-383.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ candidate for both rights; GND = 129662895
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werlhof, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1660 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1711 |
| Place of death | Helmstedt |