Michael Wirth (legal scholar, 1571)

Michael Wirth (born October 14, 1571 in Löwenberg , Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer ; † May 25, 1618 in Leipzig ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Born as the son of the councilor and church father Johann Wirth and his wife Anna Scholtz, he attended school in his hometown, and when he was 14 he went to the grammar school in Görlitz , where he was supported by the local school principal Laurentius Luduvici . This is how he acquired the skills needed to attend university. He decided in favor of the University of Leipzig, because relatives lived with him, initially staying with the old doctor Georg Wirth .

In the same year he completed the degree of a baccalaureate in philosophy and in 1592 he earned the academic degree of a master's degree . He then concentrated on studying law. For this purpose he moved to Michael Wirth the Elder , from whom he was now promoted in this discipline. In 1595 he was awarded a bachelor's degree in law, obtained a licentiate in law in 1599 and obtained a doctorate in both law in 1601 .

After he had become a Collegiate at the Collegium Mariani in 1594 , he was admitted to the Philosophical Faculty in 1595, where in 1597 he administered the Dean's Office. For his studies he had stayed at the University of Helmstedt for a year in 1595 , was at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in the year of the plague in 1598 and was accepted as an assessor in the law faculty after obtaining his doctorate in 1601 , with which he was connected Canon in Merseburg and received an extraordinary professorship at the Leipzig University.

In 1604 he took over the full professor of the Pandects , 1606 he became assessor in the electoral Saxon King's Bench in Leipzig, knew in 1604, 1612 the Office of the Vice-Rector of the University, and in 1616 the post of rector of the alma mater . In 1617 he received the appointment to the electoral Saxon Appellationsrat , which office he could no longer perform because of his illness. According to an electoral instruction, he had attended the superintendent's visitation, returned from there to his family and fell ill with dropsy, from which he died. His body was buried on May 28, 1618 with great sympathy.

family

On January 28, 1605, he married Elisabeth (born January 12, 1585 in Wittenberg; † September 26, 1635), the daughter of Polykarp Leyser the Elder . During their 13-year marriage, three sons and four daughters were born. Only the children Polycarp Wirth, Michael Wirth and Anna Magdalena Wirth (* 1614, † July 25, 1635, married Casper Michael Welsch , † 1641) survived him .

literature

• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 6, R 5193, p. 124 (cf. also: * Vincentius Schmuck : Leichpredigt, Uber den Spruch S. Pauli Rome. 8. You are not carnal, but spiritual etc. At a respectable burial of the venerable, honorable, venerable and Well-known Mr. Michael Wirth, both right Doctorn and Professorn, also Consistorialn in Leipzig, Churf, Saxon order AppelationsRaths and Canon of Merseburg etc. Which on Pentecost Monday, as May 25th Anno 1618. fell blissfully asleep in God, and on Thursday afterwards May 28th, was buried on earth in a Christian way. Leipzig 1618 ( Online ))
• Wirth, Michael Doctor. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 57, Leipzig 1748, column 1111.