Lüder Mencke

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Lüder Mencke

Lüder Mencke (born December 14, 1658 in Oldenburg , † June 26, 1726 in Leipzig ) was a German scholar and lawyer. He was a professor at the law faculty and from 1707–1711 rector of the University of Leipzig .

Life

Lüder Mencke was a son of the Oldenburg businessman Helmerich Mencke. He attended school in Nordhausen and Merseburg and then studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Jena , among others with Georg Adam Struve . In 1680 he received his master's degree and in 1682 he was awarded a doctorate in law. August Mutzenbecher describes him in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie as a “very small, but pious and hardworking” man, whose lectures and writings had received “extraordinary approval”.

In 1699 he became an assessor at the law faculty, and in 1702 Mencke was given the full professorship for Saxon and general particular law at the law faculty of the University of Leipzig. In 1705 he changed to the chair for institutions , in 1708 to that of pandect law , which he held until his death. 1707 and 1711 he was rector of the university. His cousin Otto Mencke was also a professor in Leipzig (for morality and politics) at this time , as well as the editor of the scholarly journal Acta Eruditorum . Lüder Mencke's son Gottfried Ludwig Mencke also became a professor at the Faculty of Law in 1712.

In addition to his work at the university, Lüder Mencke was also a member of the Higher Court of the Electorate of Saxony . He was a secular canon of the cathedral chapters of Naumburg (from 1708) and Merseburg (from 1709). From 1709 he carried the title of Royal Council. From 1720 he was also a judge in his place of residence Gohlis , then a suburb of Leipzig , of which he was also the landowner.

On June 27, 1681, Mencke's first marriage in Leipzig was Dorothea Elisabeth († August 5, 1683 in Leipzig), the daughter of the senior court protector Johann Gottfried Trübe. However, she died giving birth to her first child, Gottfried Ludwig Mencke . His second marriage was on May 30, 1686 in Leipzig with Rosine Elisabeth Horn († November 14, 1707 in Leipzig), the widow of the theologian and Friday preacher Daniel Griebner. The children Heinrich Otto (* 1690), Johanna Catharina (1691–1696), Magaretha Christina (* 1696; married the legal scholar Friedrich Alexander Künhold in 1722 ) are known from that marriage . His third marriage was on July 25, 1713 with Christiane Sophia, widowed Schubart, the daughter of Dr. med. Gottfried Adolf Suja. This marriage remained childless.

Today, Menckestrasse and Lüderstrasse in Leipzig-Gohlis are named after Lüder Mencke .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Mutzenbecher :  Mencke, Lüder . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 311 f.
  2. ^ Lüder Mencke in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig


personal data
SURNAME Mencke, Lüder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1726
Place of death Leipzig