Johannes von den Driesch (Waldfeucht)

Johannes von Driesch (* around 1558 in Waldfeucht ; † August 30, 1616 in Würzburg ) was professor of canon and civil law at the University of Würzburg .

Life

Johannes von Driesch was born around 1558 in Waldfeucht in today's Heinsberg district as the son of Heinrich von Driesch and his wife Anna (Entgen). Born in Winkel. He was enrolled on May 25, 1590 as a licentiate in law and on June 17, 1590 appointed professor at the University of Würzburg as the 9th holder of the chair for canon law and council with an annual salary of 300 guilders. He wrote various, sometimes very extensive, dissertations on various questions of Roman and canon law . He often took part in the meetings of the court council under the leadership of the counter-reformer and founder of the University of Würzburg, Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn .

J. von Driesch died on August 30, 1616 and is said to have been the first professor of the University of Würzburg to be buried in the university church by students.

Foundation, endowment

J. von Driesch had no descendants and immortalized himself for centuries with a scholarship foundation, which all of his male blood relatives or the descendants of his siblings (Arnold, Ida, Katharina, Heinrich and Godfried) could benefit from. The real estate at that time was 10,000 guilders . The foundation was dissolved by the Bavarian state government in 1963 because the assets had already melted down in 1924 due to inflation and currency changes to such an extent that the foundation's purpose could no longer be fulfilled. More than 160 scholarship holders are said to have studied due to his foundation . In the founding phase of the University Library of Würzburg , a legal library of around 100 volumes was acquired from his estate. This collection can no longer be documented in today's holdings.

swell

• Heinzjürgen N. Reuschling: The government of the Hochstift Würzburg 1495 to 1642 , Würzburg 1984 (research on the Franconian church and theological history 10)
• Fabian manual
• Max Buchner: "From the past of the University of Würzburg, commemorative publication for the 350th anniversary of the university" Springer Verlag 1932, pages 90, 104 and 105, ISBN 978-3-642-98763-2

literature

• Ernst Schubert: Material and organizational foundations of the Würzburg university development 1582-1821: A legal and economic history contribution to an institutional history , Verlag Degener, 1973