Kaspar Manz

Kaspar Manz , also Caspar Manzius ( pseudonym : Johann Achatius Setaw ; born April 7, 1606 in Gundelfingen an der Donau ; † March 28, 1677 in Ingolstadt ) was a German law scholar and university professor .

Life

Manz was the son of a Protestant mayor of Gundelfingen an der Donau. He received his schooling in Ulm , but converted to Catholicism in 1617 in the course of the Counter Reformation . From 1621 to 1625 he studied at the universities of Dillingen and Ingolstadt . He then went to France, where he at the University of Dole for Dr. iur. utr. received his doctorate . He also attended the universities of Dijon and Orléans . After a short stay on Lake Constance, in 1630 he was employed as an episcopal counselor with Bishop Heinrich in Augsburg. In 1635 he came to the University of Dillingen as an associate professor of the institutions.

Manz followed 1636 a call to the full professorship of institutions at the University of Ingolstadt . There he became rector of the university in 1637 . He held this office seven times. In 1639, after Christoph Besold's death, he also took over public law, and later also criminal law. In July 1653 he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg by Duke Philipp Wilhelm . His job was to regulate and reform the judicial system of the duchy. After successfully carrying out the reform, he returned to the University of Ingolstadt on May 6, 1660 as the successor to the late Kaspar Denich and took over the chair of pandects and public law. Also in 1660 he received the title of Hofrat from Elector Ferdinand Maria . He enjoyed a high reputation as a law teacher in his day.

Works (selection)

• De fidejussoribus . Ingolstadt 1641.
• De tutelis et curis . Ingolstadt 1652.
• De pactis et transactionibus . 1661.
• Commentarius Ratio-Regularis In Quatuor Libros Institutionum Imperialium . Nuremberg 1671.
• De testamento valido et invalido . Ulm and Frankfurt am Main 1680.

literature

• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Manz, Kaspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 281-285.
• Winfried Müller : Manz, Kaspar. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 505 ( digitized version ).
• Manz, Kaspar . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 6 : Kraatz-Menges . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094027-2 , p. 717 .

Web links

• Works by and about Kaspar Manz  in the German Digital Library
• Kaspar Manz in the digital portrait index