Modestinus Pistoris
Modestinus Pistoris von Seuselitz (born December 9, 1516 in Leipzig ; † September 15, 1565 ibid) was a German legal scholar , city judge and mayor of Leipzig .
Live and act
After leaving school, he began to study law in Leipzig, where he completed his baccalaureate at the age of 17 in 1533 . Like his father, the Leipzig legal scholar Simon Pistoris the Younger , he joined a five-year stay in Italy from 1536, first in Pavia with Andrea Alciato and then in Padua with Mariano Sozzini the Elder. J. , father of the well-known Unitarian theologian Lelio Sozzini . Back in Leipzig he began his licentiate in 1541 under the chairmanship of his father and in the same year, shortly before his father's death, he was appointed Professor of Law by Duke Heinrich the Pious of Saxony . Pistoris was so respected in Leipzig that he was called " the ornament of the faculty and the judge's seat ". In 1542 he obtained his doctorate juris utriusque and was immediately promoted to the electoral council. One of his best-known students at that time was Joachim von Beust , who gave a commemorative speech in 1577 in honor of his sponsor.
In 1547 he was appointed city judge , assessor at the court of higher courts and as a representative of Ludwig Fachs as vice professor of the law faculty of the University of Leipzig . In the same year, Pistoris was also elected a council member. After the death of Ludwig Fachs in 1554 he was appointed full professor of the law faculty. The high point of his political career was his election as mayor of Leipzig in 1557. Modestinus Pistoris was also a sought-after legal advisor to several princely persons.
Pistoris created several literary works and above all expert collections of more than 122 reports , which also included the work of his father and father-in-law as well as 72 of his own reports. Most of these were only published after his death, in part by one of his two sons, the judicial judge Jakob Pistoris von Seusslitz, or by Jakob Schultes between 1587 and 1599.
A portrait copper in octave format was engraved by Theodor de Bry in 1598 and is reproduced in the Frankfurt catalog of Jean Jacques Boissard in Part II on page 164.
family
Modestinus Pistoris von Seusslitz, son of Simon Pistoris von Seusslitz and Clara Pantzschmann (1491–1531) was married twice, first to a daughter of Ludwig Fachs, with whom he had twelve children. The best-known were Jakob Pistoris von Seusslitz and Ludwig Pistoris von Seusslitz, who embarked on a career similar to that of his father but had already died before his father's death. Another daughter was born from Modestinus' second marriage to an unknown lady.
Works
- Consilia sive responsa trium Saxoniae iureconsultorum celeberrimorum ( la ). Abraham Lamberg, Leipzig 1596.
literature
- Karl Friedrich von Gerber : The Ordinaries of the Faculty of Law in Leipzig; Congratulatory letter 1869, Leipzig, Chapter XV.
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Pistoris von Seuselitz, Simon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 186-194.
- Conrad Sturmhoevel: Illustrated history of the Saxon lands and their rulers , Leipzig 1898–1908; Volume 2, pages 141, 193
- Conrad Alfred Rüger: Life and fate of the Saxon legal scholar and Chancellor Simon von Pistoris on Seuselitz , Stuttgart 1977
Web links
- Modestinus in the " Library of Congress "
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pistoris, Modestinus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pistoris von Seusslitz, Modestinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Legal scholar, city judge, mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1516 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1565 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |