Johannes Meilof
Johannes Meilof (* around 1435 in Greifswald ; † around 1505; also Johann Meilof ) was a German lawyer and professor at the University of Greifswald . His legal book collection has been preserved to this day.
Life and accomplishments
Johannes Meilof came from Greifswald . He first studied from 1454 at the University of Rostock ; afterwards he was one of the first students at Greifswald University, founded in 1456 . In 1457 he received his doctorate to the Baccalaureus Artium . From 1458 to 1464 he worked at the Latin school in Greifswald, first as a teacher, then as a school principal. Then he was a teacher at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Greifswald until 1469 .
Meilof then turned to law. In 1469 he began his legal studies at the University of Greifswald. As early as 1470 he went to Livonia , where he initially worked as legal advisor for the Teutonic Order , but then vice versa as legal advisor for the Archbishop of Riga , Silvester Stodewescher , in his disputes with the Teutonic Order. In 1476 he returned to Greifswald and started a career as a university professor at the Faculty of Law: in 1477 he received his doctorate in Baccalaureus Utriusque Iuris , and in 1480 he became a full professor at the Faculty of Law. In the summer semester of 1480 and in the winter semester of 1482/83 he was rector of the university.
In 1484 Meilof retired from university life after disputes. He moved to the Dominican Black Monastery and was ordained a priest in 1485. He continued to devote himself to law, expanded his collection of manuscripts and served his sovereign, Duke Bogislaw X. of Pomerania , as legal advisor. Johannes Meilof died around 1505.
Book collection
Johannes Meilof put together a collection of legal texts as his private legal specialist library. As far as we know today, 19 or 20 volumes with a total of over 8,000 written sheets have survived.
The collection consists of three incunabula (ie early prints) with a total of 196 sheets; the remaining volumes are manuscripts.
After his death, Johannes Meilof bequeathed his book collection to the Dominican Black Monastery in Greifswald, where it was incorporated into the local library. After the Reformation, it came from there to the library of Greifswald's Great Nikolaikirche .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry of Johannes Meilof's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
literature
- Jürgen Geiß: Networks of late medieval legal scholars in the Baltic Sea region. Observations on the book collection of the Greifswald lawyer Johannes Meilof. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 91 NF, 2005, ISSN 0067-3099 , pp. 61-78.
- Theodor Pyl : Meilof, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 218-220.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meilof, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meilof, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, professor at the University of Greifswald |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1435 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greifswald |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1505 |