Laurentius Zoch

Laurentius Zoch (also: Lorentz Zoch; * August 9, 1477 in Halle (Saale) ; † February 27, 1547 in Wittenberg ) was a German lawyer and jurist.

Life

The son of Pfänner Hans Zoch enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1493 . At the academy he obtained a baccalaureate in the winter semester of 1494 and a master's degree in the liberal arts in the winter semester of 1498 . He then devoted himself to studying law and went to the University of Bologna from 1503 to 1505 , received his doctorate in both rights in 1506 , was a member of the law faculty in Leipzig from 1511 and was drawn to the court of Albrechts von Brandenburg as Chancellor in 1516 . On his behalf, he was involved in diplomatic missions at the court of Emperor Maximilian I and, among other things, deals with Martin Luther's writings.

Zoch was enthusiastic about the ideas of the Reformation in 1527 and was then given two years imprisonment. He then went to Electoral Saxony , where he was active as a councilor to the Saxon Elector Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous . As such, he mediated on November 7, 1538 between his elector and Duke Moritz of Saxony through the offices of Liebenwerda , Schweinitz and Mühlberg . After Sebaldus Münsterer died, he took over his legal professorship at the University of Wittenberg on December 19, 1539 .

In addition, he was deployed in other missions, took part in the Hagenau Religious Discussion in 1540 and was with Georg Major on the college in Regensburg in 1546 . He also took over the rectorate of the Wittenberg Academy in 1543 .

Zoch married Klara, the daughter of Johann Preusser , a Leipzig councilor, chancellor of Duke Albrecht of Saxony and councilor of Duke George the Bearded of Saxony. He concluded a second marriage with Katharina († September 29, 1580), a daughter of Hieronymus Schurff . His son Andreas Zoch from his first marriage was also a well-known lawyer.

Laurentius died in the turmoil of the Schmalkaldic War and was buried in the Wittenberg town church. There the following epitaph has been set for him:

Proximus hic tumulus Laurenti continet ossa,   Qui veteri Zocha stirpe creatus erat. Juris erat Doctor, nec tantum curia vocem   Ipsius & solita est tota probare fidem: Verum etiam casti mores & justa voluptas   Ipsius & pietas vera probata Deo est, Luxerunt ipsum nati conjunxque socerque,   Qui juris nostro tempore lumen erat. Qui cognomen have Schurffi, quod laude perenni   Ornat doctrinae justitiae suae Decessit. Anno ф Ic XLVII, Die XXVII, Mens. February.

literature

• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1917.
• Register of the University of Leipzig
• Ernst Zitzlaff: Wittenberg's burial places and their monuments. Wittenberg 1896
• Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former primacy and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Duchy of Magdeburg, which belongs to the Duchy of Magdeburg, and of all the cities, palaces, offices, Manors, aristocratic families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages, especially the cities of Halle, Neumarckt, Glaucha, Wettin, Löbegün, Cönnern and Alsleben; From Actis publicis and credible ... news, collected diligently, reinforced with many unprinted documents, adorned with copperplate engravings and abstracts, and provided with the necessary registers . Emanuel Schneider, Hall 1749/50.
• Zoch, Lorentz. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 63, Leipzig 1750, column 54 f.