John de Spina

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Johann (es) de Spina (born June 23, 1642 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 10, 1689 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar and former rector of Heidelberg University .

origin

Johannes de Spina comes from an old Protestant family from Armentières in what was then the Spanish Netherlands , who initially called themselves de l'Espine and who fled from the Spanish Catholic troops of Duke Alba via Aachen to Heidelberg in the middle of the 16th century . His great-grandfather was the Aachen city physician Peter de Spina I and his grandfather Peter de Spina II and his father Peter de Spina III. were also physicians and at times rectors of the University of Heidelberg. Johann's mother was Catharina Cornet (1614–1167), his father's second wife.

Live and act

After completing his school days, Johannes de Spina studied law at the University of Marburg from around 1659 and passed his master's degree in 1661. He then attended the University of Leiden for a year and, from 1662, the University of Cologne . On April 21, 1666, he passed his licentiate examination at the University of Heidelberg and obtained his doctorate . jur.

After completing his doctorate, de Spina was taken over by the University of Heidelberg and from 1669 to 1680 was appointed syndic of the university. He then took over a chair for law at the law faculty with a seat and vote in the Senate as a full professor. In 1684 he was also appointed professor of feudal law . In 1683, 1686 and again in 1689 until his death, de Spina was elected dean of the law faculty and, in the meantime, in 1685 and / or 1687 rector of the university. In addition, a year before his death he was appointed to the Electoral Palatinate Council of Churches in Heidelberg.

family

Johannes de Spina was married to Anna Maria Metzler (1652– after 1714), a daughter of the accounting council and assistant chamberlain Tobias Metzler, and had two daughters and six sons with her. Of his children, the daughter Loysa Sara Catharina de Spina (1678–1742) married the elector's personal physician and court pharmacist Daniel Nebel and his son Friedrich Peter de Spina (1688–1721) also became a lawyer and professor at the High School in Hanau .

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SURNAME Spina, Johannes de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spina, Johann de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and rector of Heidelberg University
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1689
Place of death Heidelberg