Nikolaus Michaelis

Nikolaus Michaelis (born December 19, 1645 in Stralsund ; † September 2, 1708 in Wismar ) was a lawyer and mayor of Greifswald .

Life

Nikolaus Michaelis was the son of the Stralsund merchant Nikolaus Michaelis and Anna Erskein. At first he was tutored by private tutors, attended high school in Stralsund for several years and then in Stade . From there he went to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in 1664 to study law. In 1669 he went on an educational trip via Berlin, Wittenberg, Leipzig, Dresden and Gießen to Strasbourg , where he stayed for half a year. Because of the death of his father, he returned to Stralsund. From June 1670 he continued his studies at the University of Greifswald . On the recommendation of relatives and friends, the Governor General of Swedish Pomerania and Chancellor of the University gave him permission to give lectures. Nikolaus Michaelis turned away from Greifswald and moved to Güstrow , where he married a daughter of Pastor Kistenmacher. In 1673 he was appointed in Greifswald Doctor of Laws PhD .

After the death of his wife and other relatives as well as the outbreak of the Northern War , he moved to Stralsund and later on to Greifswald. He became an associate professor of rights and a member of the city council. In 1686 he became mayor of Greifswald. In 1708 he resigned from his position in order to take up a professorship at the university again, but died in Wismar that same year on his way home from Lübeck .

literature

• Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt : News of the life and writings of neo-Pomeranian-Rügen scholars from the beginning of the eighteenth century to 1822. Vol. 1, Friedrich Wilhelm Kunike, Greifswald 1824, pp. 131-133.

Web links

• Publications by and about Nikolaus Michaelis in VD 17 .
• Literature about Nikolaus Michaelis in the state bibliography MV