Johannes Christoph Harpprecht

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Portrait of Johannes Harpprecht, painting oil on wood, by Conrad Melperger from 1628, in the Tübingen Professorengalerie
Johannes Harpprechtius engraving by Theodor de Bry 1669

Johannes Harpprecht (born January 20, 1560 in Walheim , Duchy of Württemberg , Altwuerttemberg ; † September 18, 1639 in Tübingen , Duchy of Württemberg) was a Württemberg jurist . He held the chair for secular law and church law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. Harpprecht became the progenitor of a family of lawyers from Württemberg, who had been important for generations, and many scholars from other faculties , not only in the male line, until the 21st century.

origin

Johannes Harpprecht came to Walheim on January 20, 1560 as the son of the farmer, wine grower and mayor of Walheim, Johann Harpprecht and his wife Margaretha Harpprecht born. Reuschlin, to the world. In 1564 his parents died of the plague , whereupon Johannes Harpprecht came to Gemmrigheim at the age of four in the care of his uncle Stephan Harpprecht . From there he attended the Latin school in Besigheim .

Education

In 1578 Harpprecht enrolled at the University of Strasbourg to study law . He then studied at the University of Tübingen , from 1586 at the University of Marburg and returned to Tübingen to complete his studies, where he received his doctorate in September 1589 after passing exams and successful disputation as Doctor iuris utriusque , the doctor of both rights .

Harprecht's importance for Württemberg

Harpprecht was appointed court advisor and seconded to the imperial court in Speyer . After only a few months, however, he returned to the University of Tuebingen back where he in 1592 to the chair of secular law and canon law had been called. Johannes Harpprecht was regarded as an excellent expert on the whole of law and wrote legal commentaries and writings that were printed and distributed in several editions.

Marriage and offspring

On February 24, 1590, Harpprecht married the widow of Pastor Georg Schütz, Maria Andreae (* December 10, 1560 in Tübingen; † September 2, 1624 in Tübingen), a daughter of the Tübingen theology professor and university chancellor Jakob Andreae , who already had five children from her had first marriage with the pastor Georg Schütz. Seven other children were born in the marriage with Johannes Harpprecht:

  • Regina (* 1592)
  • Agnes (* 1594)
  • Christoph (* 1596; † 1637 in Tübingen), court lawyer
  • Maria (* 1599, † 1637)
  • Johannes (* 1601)
  • Rosina (* 1603)
  • Julius (* 1608).

In the following 250 years, many important legal scholars emerged from the Harpprecht family, along with other disciplines. The descendants in the male line include, among others:

After the death of his first wife Maria Andreae, widowed Schütz, Johannes Harpprecht married Anna Barth, widow of court attorney Georg Oth, on October 2, 1625 . His marriage to Anna Barth was not considered happy.

Works

Commentarii , 1615
  • Commentarii ( la ). Johann Alexander Cellius, Tübingen 1615.

Individual evidence

  1. ADB Johann Harpprecht in archive link ( memento of the original dated April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bsbndb.bsb.lrz-muenchen.de
  2. ^ Carl Friedrich Haug: Communications from his life and from his estate, printed as a manuscript for relatives and friends . Edited by Karl Riecke . Stuttgart. Printed by IB Metzler'schen Buchdruckerei in 1869.

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