Lucas Beckmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucas Beckmann (copper engraving from 1688)

Lucas Beckmann (born December 16, 1571 in Hamburg , †  February 7, 1624 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Beckmann was born as the son of Joachim Beckmann from Antwerp and his wife Anna, the daughter of the Hamburg merchant Heinrich Thamm. He had attended high school in his hometown, studied in Rostock , Leiden , Oxford , in 1594 in Wittenberg and in 1596 in Leipzig . In Basel he received his doctorate in law in 1597, returned to Wittenberg and was accepted as his substitute in 1598 in place of Peter Heige . In 1599 he was given an extraordinary professorship in law , from which he rose to the full professorship of the Codex at the University of Wittenberg until the end of his life.

Associated with it, he became assessor at the Wittenberg court, at the Schöppenstuhl, at the royal district court of the Margraviate of Lower Lusatia and at the Wittenberg consistory. He was electoral Saxon Appellationsrat in Dresden, was princely Lüneburgischer, Anhalt and other potentates secret council. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg Academy, was vice-rector in the summer semester of 1603 and rector of the university in 1609 and 1619 . His body was buried in the Wittenberg town church, where an epitaph was erected.

family

Genealogically it should be noted that on September 19, 1597 he married Elisabeth, the daughter of the Leipzig merchant Johann Grünwald and his wife Anna Schönberg. This 27 year marriage resulted in four sons and two daughters.

  1. Son Lucas Beckmann I died early
  2. Son Johann Joachim Beckmann died before his mother
  3. Son Lucas Beckmann II survived mother studied law.
  4. Son Christopherus Beckmann (* 1605; † February 8, 1615 in Wittenberg)
  5. Daughter Anna Elisabeth Beckmann I died early
  6. Daughter Anna Elisabeth Beckmann II married. Nicolaus Schaffshausen jur. Prakticus in Wittenberg

Selection of works

  • De laudemiis
  • De monetis
  • De juramentis in genre
  • De privilegiis studiosor
  • De juristdictione
  • De acquirenda
  • Retinenda & amittenda possessione
  • De deposito
  • Receptis & Sequstratione
  • De jure detractionis

literature

  • Becmann, (Lucas). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 3, Leipzig 1733, column 879.
  • Arnold Christian Beuthner : Beckmann, Lucas, IVD In: Hamburgisches Staats- und Gelehrten-Lexicon in which the names, lives and merits of those men of spiritual and worldly class are listed who are world-famous from the wholesome Reformation up to the present time City and the same areas, a respectable honorary office, or a high dignity clothing made famous through writings, born there and received in foreign promotion, but already blessed the temporal . Christian Wilhelm Brandt, Hamburg 1739, OCLC 46285036 , p. 15-16 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library ).
  • Johann Moller : Cimbria Literata. Tomus Primus. Scriptores universos Indigenas, hisque immistos complures, quorum Patria explorari necdum potuit, comprehendens . In: Cimbria literata, sive scriptorum ducatus utriusque Slesvicensis et Holsatici, quibus et alii vicini quidam accensentur, historia literaria tripartita . Orphanotrophium Regium, Copenhagen 1744, p. 35 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Hrsg.): "Allgemeine Gelehrten-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, dying and writings are described from the most credible scribes in alphabetical order ” . First part, A – C. Johann Friedrich Gleditschen's bookstore, Leipzig 1750, Sp. 902 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Hans Schröder : Beckmann (Lucas 1st) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . First volume: Abatz - Dassovius. Perthes-Besser u. Mauke, Hamburg 1851, OCLC 165098711 , p. 191–193 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ).
  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917, OCLC 746005289 .
  • Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. 1974, volume 8, p. 313, R 7492
  • Funeral sermon Protestant seminary in Wittenberg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Lucas Beckmann's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Hans Schröder: Schaffshausen (Nicolaus I.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 6 , no. 3385 . W. Mauke's Sons, Hamburg 1873, OCLC 165098721 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library). Facsimile ( memento of the original from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / schroeder.sub.uni-hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Beckmann, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1624
Place of death Lutherstadt Wittenberg