Matthias Wedel

This article deals with the legal scholar Matthias Wedel; on the journalist and writer see Mathias Wedel .

Matthias Wedel , also Matthias von Wedel (* in Lübeck ; † September 11, 1465 ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Matthias Wedel was of aristocratic origin and probably belonged to the von Wedel family . He studied from 1444 at the University of Rostock , where he became a Bachelor of Artium in 1446 . In 1455 Matthias Wedel presided over the archdeacon of Stargard . As Chancellor of the Bishop of Cammin Henning Iven , he campaigned for the establishment of a collegiate foundation at Greifswald's Nikolaikirche , where in 1457 he received a preparatory canonical . From 1456 to 1464 he was archdeacon in Stolpe an der Peene .

He was friends with Heinrich Rubenow , with whom he was involved in founding the University of Greifswald and was present at the inauguration ceremony. Wedel initially belonged to the artist faculty , but soon turned to law . At the University of Bologna , where he had enrolled together with Gervinus Ronnegarwe in 1458 , he was procurator in 1460 and received his doctorate in canon law in 1461 . Then he received the second professorship alongside Georg Walter at the law faculty of the University of Greifswald, where he had to read about the sixth book of the decretals and the clementines . In 1462 he was rector of the university.

When it was after the death of Duke Otto III. came from Pomerania-Stettin to the Stettin succession dispute, the dukes Erich II. and Wartislaw X. von Pommern-Wolgast sent him to the court of Emperor Frederick III as an appraiser together with Georg Walter, Johannes Parleberg , Sabel Siegfried and the lawyer Jaroslaw Barnekow . Her task was to prove the succession of the Wolgast line of the Greifenhaus genealogically , heraldically and legally.

In the speech " Oratio pro parte ducum Stettinesium coram Imperatore " given by Wedel to the Kaiser in Regensburg , he emphasized the illegality of the Brandenburg claims. Among other things, he made statements on the history and use of the Pomeranian coat of arms . The effect of the speech was promising. Wedel died in September 1465 under unexplained circumstances. He also submitted the speech he gave in Low German in a written version in Latin . A copy later found its way into a codex in the Greifswald city archive.

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Theodor Pyl :  Wedel, Mathias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 414.
• Stephanie Irrgang: Peregrinatio academica: migrations and careers of scholars from the universities of Rostock, Greifswald, Trier and Mainz in the 15th century . In: Contributions to the history of the University of Greifswald (BGUG) . Vol. 4, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-08085-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten : Pomeranian and Rügen historical monuments . Vol. 1, Koch, Greifswald 1834, pp. 339–340 ( digitized version )
2. ^ Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten : Cronica de ducatu Stettinensi et Pomeraniae gestorum inter Marchiones Brandenburgenses et duces Stettinenses ao. domini 1464. From the parchment manuscript of the Greifswald city archive. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 16, Issue 2. 1857. pp. 87-96.