Michael Grass the Younger
Michael Grass the Younger (also Michael Graß ; born February 5, 1657 in Wolgast ; † July 25, 1731 in Tübingen ) was a German law scholar and university professor.
Life
Michael Grass attended the Latin schools in Wolgast and Greifswald as well as the Stralsund high school . He then began to study law at the University of Greifswald . From there he went to the University of Tübingen via Leipzig and Jena in 1683 . In the same year he became court master of Count Wilhelm Friedrich von Solms-Braunfels . In 1687 he received his doctorate and in the same year in Tübingen associate professor and in 1692 full professor at the law faculty and later also at the Collegium Illustre . This was followed by the appointment as court assessorand the administrator of the scholarships .
Michael Grass wrote numerous papers on legal topics. For his emperor Karl VI. Dedicated work "Collationes juris civilis romani cum recessibus Imperii et Ordinatione criminali Caroli V. (Tubingae 1732. 4.)" he offered him the position of Reichshofrat as well as the elevation to the nobility . Grass declined, however, because he believed he could be of more use as a college professor and writer.
family
Michael Grass was the son of the royal Swedish court attorney of the same name and Procurator Ordinarius as well as Syndicus and from 1659 until his death in 1689 mayor of Wolgast.
In 1687 he married a daughter of the Tübingen lawyer Johann Andreas Frommann . With her he had three daughters. The lawyer Jacob David Mögling , the theologian Johann Rudolph Osiander and the Stuttgart church council director Christoph Heinrich Korn were his sons-in-law.
literature
- Roderich von Stintzing : Michael Graß the younger . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 591.
- Ph. H. Külb .: Grass (Michael) . In: Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber (Hrsg.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Volume Theil 88, Leipzig 1868, p. 58 ( digitized version )
- Jakob Christoph Beck , August Johann Buxtorf (Ed.): Supplement to the Basel general historical lexicon. Volume 1, part 2. Basel 1749, p. 78 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Works by and about Michael Grass the Younger in the German Digital Library
- Publications by and about Michael Grass the Younger in VD 17 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania. Outline of their history, mostly based on documents. Introduction and preface by Robert Klempin . A. Bath, Berlin 1865, p. 547 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Gabriele Nieder: Ferdinand Christoph Harpprecht (1650-1714). Tübingen law professor and Württemberg council for Mömpelgard affairs at the time of the French reunions. (= Tübingen jurisprudential treatises. Vol. 111 ISSN 0082-6731 ), Mohr Siebeck, 2011, ISBN 9783161504006 , p. 120 ( Google Books ).
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SURNAME | Grass, Michael the Younger |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Graß, Michael; Grassus, Michael; Crassus, Michael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1657 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolgast |
DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1731 |
Place of death | Tübingen |