Matthäus Schlueter

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Matthäus Schlueter

Matthäus Schlueter (born August 15, 1648 in Hamburg ; † November 19, 1719 ibid) was a German lawyer of the 17th and 18th centuries and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg.

Life

Schlüter was a member of the Hamburg council family Slueter, who came from Westphalia, and was the son of the Hamburg mayor Johann Slueter . He grew up in the Hanseatic city of Wismar, which fell to Sweden, and in the Mecklenburg capital of Güstrow , where his father was working in the judiciary and state administration at the time. After attending school, he studied law and theology at various universities. In 1672 he contributed a German memorial poem to the death of Princess Eleonore of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1657–1672). After he had made several dissertations, he was in 1673 at the University of Rostock Dr. jur. PhD . Afterwards, academic educational trips brought him into contact with outstanding personalities in his field. Shortly before his father's return to Hamburg as first counsel of the council, Matthäus Schlueter took up his work as a lawyer in Hamburg from 1675. As a member of the citizenry, he was a member of the Thirties Committee from 1685 , but there probably took a detached attitude towards the approach of this committee. In any case, in contrast to his professional colleagues in this body, he was not exiled and, after the death of his father in 1703, he was also a councilor of the Hanseatic city. In the period from 1695 to 1703 he developed a pronounced interest in meteorology and also published on this topic.

meaning

Schlüter's statue above the entrance to the civil justice building in Hamburg (19th century)

A statue above the entrance of the Hamburg civil justice building made by the Berlin sculptor Eduard Albrecht based on the only original of the well-known copper engraving with the allonge wig commemorates him. The Hamburg judges' association still summarizes the importance of the legal practitioner Schlueter for the Hamburg judiciary today as follows: His fame was founded on civil law treatises that had a lasting impact on Hamburg's private law: His most famous work is the "Tractat von die Erben in Hamburg", the first edition of which was published in 1698 appeared. Beneke characterized this book as a model of learned detail painting. It deals with the legal relations of real estate. In 1703 the "Tractate on the Right to Leave" was published, which deals with the abandonment of land. In his book on Hamburg private law, published in 1856, Baumeister points out that Schlüter's works are "still of considerable value".

Fonts

  • Tract from the heirs in Hamburg, 1698
  • Tractate of the Right of Exodus, 1703

literature

Web links

Commons : Matthäus Schlüter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corpse confirmation / The Illuminated Princess Eleonora / Hertzogin zu Mecklenburg. On the princely gracious ordinance in print made out by Christian Scheippeln / Hoff-Buchdrucker 1672, according to LBMV
  2. ↑ See the entries by Matthäus Schlüter in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Statue Fig. 18
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1648
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1719
Place of death Hamburg