Johannes Purgold
Johannes Purgold (* mid-15th century in Plaue ; † 1534 ), also Purgoldt ; was from 1491 town clerk of Eisenach and lawyer .
Life
Purgold came from a respected wealthy Thuringian family. From 1480 he was aldermen in the city council of Eisenach for 10 years and from 1490 as a town clerk and author of a legal book . He is also said to have been mayor of Eisenach.
plant
From 1503–1504 he wrote the “legal book on the city council and the councilors” based on the older “Eisenach legal books” written by the priest and Eisenach city chronicler Johannes Rothe . These so-called younger "Eisenach legal books" were of great importance for the legal development in Germany and were handed down in three manuscripts (Eisenacher, Wolfenbüttler and Hamburger).
Of the total of 12 books, the first four deal with civil law, the 5th to 8th with procedural law and the 9th and 10th with urban organization. As the 11th and 12th book, Purgold added the “Gotha City Law” without reference to Eisenach city law and also without Purgold's authorship.
Apparently his intention was not so much to create a uniform legal code as to present the most important German legal provisions at the beginning of the 16th century.
The main components are sentences about
- * the land law (common law to Saxony and Thuringia),
- * the soft image law (common law of the cities of these countries) and
- * the city law (the law of the city of Eisenach).
Purgold linked with German law
- the Roman law , especially the institutions ,
- the canonical after Meister Wilhelm, Meister Heinrich von Merseburg and Meister Peter,
- also many sentences of the Mosaic law and the Bible , (called by him "divine law" ).
He also frequently quoted church fathers and passages from the classics.
In the 9th and 10th book of the city constitution, following Cicero and Aristotle , he drafted basic rules and procedures in the form of advice for the treatment of public business and also for the actions and conduct of public officials and community representatives.
The main source for the German legal content is the so-called legal book according to distinctions , from which entire chapters are taken.
literature
- K. von Strenge et al. (Ed.): The city rights of Eisenach, Gotha and Waltershausen . 1909.
- H. Helmbold: History of the city of Eisenach . 1936.
- Peter Rondi (edit.): Eisenacher Rechtsbuch, Germanic rights . Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar 1950.
- Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz: German legal books of the Middle Ages . Cologne / Vienna 1990, Volume I, p. 57, Volume II, p. 597.
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Purgoldt, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 713 f.
Web links
- Family tree from Geneal forum
- HRGdigital, Erich-Schmidt-Verlag, list of works
- Collection of German legal sources / 2. Containing the Johannes Purgoldt legal book and statutory rights of Gotha and Eisenach. - 1860
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Purgold, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Purgoldt, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | City clerk of Eisenach and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1450 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plaue |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1534 |