Matthew Cuno

Portrait of Matthaeus Cuno based on Martin Friedrich Seidel's picture collection

Matthäus Cuno (born September 15, 1551 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † April 17, 1624 ibid) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

Matthäus Cuno was a son of the Frankfurt merchant Matthaeus Kühne. He received his education in Frankfurt, Goldberg in Silesia and Magdeburg . When the plague broke out there, he went to Görlitz . Two years later, Cuno began his studies at the University of Strasbourg and then graduated from the Brandenburg University in Frankfurt . He obtained his master's degree in 1572. He continued his studies with Ludolph Schrader and began to give lectures at the Frankfurt Faculty of Law. Later he went on an educational trip and obtained his doctorate at the University of Basel in 1576. Two years later, Cuno became a lawyer at the university in his hometown.

He turned down Chancellor Lampert Distelmeyer's offer for a position at court and stayed at his home university. He married the daughter Anna of the electoral court counselor Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck , but the marriage remained childless. With the encouragement of his father-in-law, Cuno was later able to succeed Schrader at the university.

Matthäus Cuno donated part of his extensive library to the university and had the university buildings repaired at his own expense. His considerable fortune, however, was largely lost during the Thirty Years' War .

literature

• George Gottfried Küster (Ed.): Martin Friedrich Seidels picture collection . Berlin 1751, p. 156f. Digitized

Web links

• Consortium of European Research Libraries : Matthaeus Cuno Catalog of Works