Johannes Goddaeus (Marburg)

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Johannes Goddaeus (also Goeddaeus , born as Johann Gödde ) (* December 7, 1555 in Schwerte ; † January 5, 1632 in Marburg ) was Professor of Law and Rector of the University in Marburg, Hesse .

De sequestratione possessionum et fructuum , 1607

Life

Adolescent years

Johann Gödde was born into a wealthy merchant family, and his father Heinrich Gödde was temporarily mayor of Schwerte. His mother was Elisabeth Becker, daughter of a swords councilor. Johann was the fifth of the couple's six children, but the first to survive toddlerhood. Although he was originally intended to enter his father's business, he showed his scholastic talent at an early age and his parents let him attend the Dortmund school from 1568 , where he learned Latin, Greek and especially Hebrew in particular. In 1570 he moved to Deventer , where he had to break off his studies after just one year due to the warlike circumstances. After a short stay in Schwerte, he resumed his studies in Dortmund. From 1576 to 1578 he was employed as governor and private tutor to the son of bailiff Friedrich von der Mark in Dortmund.

Education

In 1578 he enrolled at Marburg University, where he intended to study philosophy, but above all theology . The serious disputes between the theologians at that time were so repugnant that he turned to jurisprudence instead. As early as 1582 - in the meantime he had Latinized his name to "Goddaeus" - he was given permission to give lectures on the institutions of Roman law himself. On April 29, 1585 he received his doctorate as "Doctor iuris utriusque" ( Doctor of both rights ). Then he went to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer to learn about the process there. Opponents prevented an appointment as professor of law in Heidelberg , and in 1586 he returned to Marburg as a private lecturer . In the following year he was elected mayor by the city council of Schwerte, but he turned down the office in order to continue his academic career.

High School Herborn and University of Marburg

On July 21, 1588 he was appointed full professor of law at the Academia Nassauensis (High School) in Herborn . There he earned the reputation of an excellent teacher. In 1592 he was also a Count of Nassau Council. In 1593 he became rector of the High School in Herborn. He did not accept a subsequent appointment as professor of law in Frankfurt (Oder) , but he followed the appointment as full professor of the institutions in Marburg on April 27, 1594 in July 1594. In 1605 he was rector of the University of Marburg. He stayed in Marburg until the end of his life, although he received a number of offers to take on other positions - u. a. as professor in Heidelberg, Helmstedt and Franeker , as municipal syndic in Bremen , as vice-chancellor in Kassel, and still in 1626 as royal Danish councilor in Copenhagen .

Judicial and Political Appointments

In addition to his academic activities, he was also active in the law and politics of the Landgraviate, as he was often entrusted with such tasks due to his profound legal knowledge. As early as 1595 he became assessor at the Marburg Samthof Court and Landgrave-Hessian Council. The university appointed him its deputy at the state parliaments in Kassel, Marburg and Treysa . He was a member of the commission that should settle the Marburg successions dispute in 1604/05 . In 1611 he was appointed assessor of the consistory in Marburg. His reputation was so high that in 1624, when Marburg temporarily fell to Hessen-Darmstadt and the university was merged with the Ludwig University in Gießen from 1625 to 1649 , he was one of only four of 13 Marburg professors who were appointed by the Darmstadt Landgrave in their offices were taken over.

Sickness and death

From 1623 Goddaeus suffered more and more frequently from apoplectic attacks. With increasing age they multiplied so much that from 1630 he had to give up almost all activities outside his home. He died on January 5, 1632.

Works

In addition to his inaugural dissertation , he published 24 other independent legal writings, several of which had different editions. A collection of his individual disputations (61 in total) was also published, as was a collection of his expert opinions and legal pronouncements.

Marriage and offspring

He married Catharina Salfeld, daughter of Johann Salfeld, Rentmeister zu Marburg, and his wife Elisabeth in Herborn on April 25, 1586 . The marriage resulted in the following children, all born in Marburg:

  • Elisabeth (* around 1587)
  • Valentin (* around 1590)
  • Rebekah (* 1592)
  • Margarethe (* around 1594)
  • Hermann (* around 1596)
  • Johann Heinrich (* around 1598)
  • Johannes (* 1601, † 1657)

Web links

literature

  • Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1527 to 1910. Edited by Franz Gundlach. Elwert, Marburg 1927
  • Hermann Müller (librarian):  Goeddaeus, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 312-314.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Asche: From denominational silk and learned religious refugees, from converts and heterodox scholars . In: Henning P. Jürgens, Thomas Weller (Ed.): Religion and mobility . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-10094-3 , p. 396
  2. ↑ goedde-web.de
personal data
SURNAME Goddaeus, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goddaeus, Johann; Gödde, Johann; Goeddaeus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1555
PLACE OF BIRTH Swords
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1632
Place of death Marburg