Josias Marcus

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Josias Marcus

Josias Marcus also: Marci (* 1524 in Torgau ; † April 28, 1599 in Jena ) was a German legal scholar and civil servant.

Life

Josias Marcus' father, the Torgau doctor Johann Marcus, probably moved to Jena in 1533, where he can be traced back to 1544 and his widow Sara to 1560. Josias attended the city school in Jena and matriculated at the University of Wittenberg in August 1545 . Here he first completed philosophical studies and returned to Jena in the summer semester of 1549, where he appeared as a teacher of Artes liberalis. On the advice of Erhard Schnepf and Johann Stigel , he went to Augsburg in 1553 , where he taught some young nobles. In 1554 he moved with them to France for four years , where he devoted himself to the study of law. Traveling via Strasbourg , he returned to Augsburg. From there he made a gentlemanly trip to Italy in 1558, where he conducted further legal studies at the University of Padua and the University of Ferrara . In 1560 he received his doctorate in Ferrara under Hippolito Riminaldi (* 1520 in Ferrara; † December 22, 1589 ibid.) As a doctor of law. Returning to Thuringia, he experienced the denominational disputes between Matthias Flacius and Viktorin Strigel in Jena .

In 1565 he became Chancellor of Count Günther XLI von Schwarzburg-Arnstadt in Arnstadt. On August 4, 1570 he became Professor of Law in Jena and Councilor of Saxony Weimar. As a councilor he took part in the negotiations on the partition of Erfurt in 1572 . As a university teacher at Salana, he also devoted himself to organizational tasks and was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semester of 1573 . On July 20, 1573, Marcus received an offer for the salary of 200 Reichstalers as Vice Chancellor, Chamber, Court and Chancellery of Duke Julius of Braunschweig , which he took up in 1574 in Wolfenbüttel. In 1576 he was called to Vienna as a councilor to Emperor Maximillian II , but he died before taking up this position, so that Marcus stayed in Braunschweig for about a year as a private citizen. Although he received an offer from Ludwig VI in 1577 . was offered by the Palatinate at the Electoral Palatinate court, he decided in 1578, due to the political sectarian disputes prevailing there, to accept a call to Adolf I of Schleswig as Vice Chancellor. In 1585 he returned to Jena, where he had received a position as a councilor and was present at the Jena Consistory. In 1586 he received the post of court and chamber councilor in Weimar. From 1593 he spent the last years of his life on his chair in law at the University of Jena. After his death, Georg Müller gave him the funeral sermon and a tombstone was erected for him in the Jena Collegiate Church , which was destroyed in a bomb attack on Jena in February 1945.

family

Marcus had married Anna Gentzel von Berneck (also: Genzel von Pirneck; † 1606), the daughter of the captain in Sachsenburg, Weißenfels and Beutwitz Andreas Gentzel and his wife Ottilia Lutheroth (Lutteroth). There are children from the marriage. We know of these:

  • Julius Marcus (* around 1575 in Braunschweig; born July 19, 1637 in Jena)
  • Adolph Marcus (* Weimar) May 31, 1593 Schulpforta, chancellor and councilor of the counts v. Barby and Stolberg
  • Josias Marcus (* Jena) 1592 Uni. Wittenberg; Strasbourg Feb, 1598 ngw.
  • Sigmund Andreas Marcus (born September 25, 1575 in Wolfenbüttel; † September 17, 1600 in Jena). 1591 hc Uni. Jena
  • Blandina Marcus married Hippolyt Hubmeier in 1605 (* 1576 in Laber; † December 9, 1637 in Heldburg)

literature

  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, Vol. 3, Sp. 156; ( Online )
  • Marcus (Josias). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 19, Leipzig 1739, column 1303.
  • Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Georg Jöntzen, Delmenhorst, 1813, Vol. 4, Sp. 682, ( online )
  • Adrian Beier: Syllabus rectorum et professorum Jenæ in studio generali judicum in judicio provinciali: Ordinariorum in facultate juridica: Pastorum et diaconorum in Templo. Jena 1659, 558; ( Online )
  • Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christoph Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena, 1711, p. 45 (lawyers, online )
  • Johannes Moller: Cimbria literata. Tomus Secundus. Adoptivos sive Exteros, in Ducatu utroque Slesvicensis et Holsatico vel officiis functos publicis, vel diutius commoratos, complectens. Reginer, 1744, p. 529, ( online )
  • Johannes Günther: Life sketches of the professors of the University of Jena from 1558 to 1858. A celebratory offering for the 300th anniversary of the Univ. on August 15, 16 and 17, 1858. Friedrich Maucke, Jena, 1858, p. 52, ( online )
  • Josias Marcus. In: Gabriele Jancke: Self-testimonials in the German-speaking area. Autobiographies, diaries and other autobiographical writings. 1400-1620. ( Online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to others 1527, but confirms the age on his painting in 1524
  2. ↑ Hans Apel: Jena's inhabitants from the time from 1250 to 1600. CA Starke, Görlitz, 1937, p. 176
  3. ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660), Magdeburg, 1934
  4. ^ Georg Mentz, Reinhold Jauernig: The register of the University of Jena. 1548 to 1652. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1944, p. 197
  5. ↑ G. Richter: The old high school in Jena. Contributions to its history. In: Annual report on the Carolo-Alexandrinum grammar school in Jena from Easter 1886 to Easter 1887. G. Neuenhahn, Jena, 1887, p. 11
  6. ↑ Jena register, p. 569
  7. ↑ The salary of the Ducal Braunschweig state servants towards the end of the sixteenth century. In: GP von Bülow: Contributions to the history of the Braunschweig-Lüneburgchen country and to the knowledge of their constitution and administration. Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1829, p. 166, ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Marcus, Josias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marci, Josias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH 1524
PLACE OF BIRTH Torgau
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1599
Place of death Jena