Johannes Gryphiander

Johannes Gryphiander (actually Johannes Griepenkerl ; * 1580 in Oldenburg ; † December 15, 1652 ibid) was a German councilor and writer .

Life

Griepenkerl, who later graced his name following the fashion during humanism , was the son of the Oldenburg councilor Roleff Griepenkerl (1542–1612). He attended schools in Oldenburg, Braunschweig and Dortmund , but had to break off his training for financial reasons and do an apprenticeship with a businessman. He was only able to continue his studies at the age of 25 - presumably with the support of Count Anton Günther from Oldenburg . On October 12, 1605 he was enrolled at the University of Helmstedt , where he studied law and a number of other subjects.

After completing his studies, Gryphiander held lectures as a private lecturer at the universities of Wittenberg , Jena and Altdorf for several years . In 1612 he became professor of history and poetry at the University of Jena, where he received his doctorate in law in 1614 . In the summer of 1618 he was called to Oldenburg by Count Anton Günther and appointed councilor and judge . His official activities and further life are not known.

Writing activity

Gryphiander was also active as a writer and wrote a number of legal treatises, of which the study published in 1625 on the Roland Columns is worth mentioning, the importance of which he was the first to prove under city law . He also dealt with the history of Oldenburg and planned an extensive presentation that he wanted to call Commentationum rerum Oldenburgicarum libri 44 . However, he did not get beyond the initial work, which is why only a handwritten treatise on the Lower Court of Bremen and Oldenburg has survived.

Apparently in gratitude for his support he dedicated the Latin play Fridericus Leomachus to Anton Günther , which was printed in Magdeburg in 1609 and performed by students from Helmstedt that same year. In this Comoedia Nova he processed the regional-historical legend of the lion fight of the Oldenburg Count Friedrich (attested in 1091), who passed this divine judgment with the help of a ruse and was able to prove the innocence of his father Huno (* before 1091). (→ see also list of the Counts of Oldenburg ).

family

Gryphiander was married to Anna born in 1613. Neuhaus, the daughter of the count's rent master Johann Neuhaus († 1605) and his second wife Beke geb. Vogt († 1609), the granddaughter of the first Oldenburg Chancellor Nikolaus Vogt (approx. 1490–1564 / 65). The couple had three sons.

Works

• Fridericus Leomachus seu comoedia nova. Magdeburg. 1609.
• De insulis Tractatus. Frankfurt. 1624.
• De Weichbildis Saxonicis sive colossis Rolandinis. Frankfurt. 1625.
• Euthanasia, sive de facultate bene beateque moriendi. Bremen. 1644.
• Oeconomicarum legalium sive de arte acquirendi et conservandi patrimonii libri duo. Bremen. 1662.
• Historical report from the Lower Court of Bremen and Oldenburg. MS, StAO.

literature

• Gryphiander (Griepenkerl), Johannes. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 261 ( online ).