Nicolaus Creusel

Portrait of Nicolaus Creusel, etching around 1680

Nicolaus Creusel (born October 2, 1627 in Prichsenstadt , † August 9, 1676 in Leipzig ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The citizen's son in Prixenstadt Johann Creusel († 1671 in Leipzig) and his wife Catharina, daughter of the citizen and councilor in Prichsenstadt Johann Bardenstein (also Baudenstein), first attended the school in his hometown. Since the city was reduced to rubble in 1633, his parents moved to Schweinfurt , where he continued to attend school and the local high school. For material reasons, his parents were unable to finance his studies. Therefore, he initially accepted a private tutoring in Dresden .

In 1649 he attended the University of Leipzig . There he completed a basic philosophical course following the customs of the time. In addition, he attended the lectures given by Gottfried Schlüter (1605–1666), Johann Ittig (1607–1676), Philipp Müller (1585–1659), Johannes Hornschuch (1599–1663) and Johannes Preibisius (1610–1660). In 1650 he became a baccalaureus and in 1651 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. He then went on to study law. To this end, he attended the lectures of Georg Tobias Schwendendörffer (1597–1681), Quirinus Schacher (1597–1670), Paul Franz Romanus (1641–1675), Jacob Born (the Elder) (1638–1709) and received private lessons at the law faculty by Polycarp Wirth (1609–1654) and the Mayor of Leipzig Paul Wagner (1617–1697).

In 1652 he was a Baccalaureus of law, in 1655 he was promoted to licentiate and in 1656 he received his doctorate in law. In 1660 he became an assessor at the law faculty and in 1668 a member of the small princely college , which he chaired in 1673. In 1669 he became the syndic of the university, in 1672 an assessor at the Leipzig Higher Court and in the summer semesters 1668 and 1674 rector of the alma mater .

Creusel died on August 9, 1676 in Leipzig of a heated fever. On August 13th he was buried in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig .

family

His marriage to Christina, the daughter of the citizen of Geithain Martin Noßwitz, in 1656 resulted in four sons and three daughters. Nicolaus and Johann Rudolf died in their childhood years. The daughters Maria Catharina Creusel (* July 3, 1659 in Leipzig; † August 9, 1693; married. April 29, 1679 with Quintus Septimus Florenz Rivinus (1651–1713)), Susanna Salome Creusel (* April 6, 1665 in Leipzig; † August 30, 1684 there; married to the later professor of the Hebrew language Tilemann Andreas Rivinus (1654–1692)), Maria Dorothea Creusel and the sons Amadeus Creusel, Johann Jacob Creusel survived their father.

literature

• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 5, Boppard / Rhein, 1967, p. 257, R 4447

Web links

• Publications by and about Nicolaus Creusel in VD 17 .