Otto Melander

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Otto Melander (also Otho Schwarzenthal, Schwarzmann, Holzapfel ; * 1571 in Hohne near Eschwege , † 1640 in Prague ) was a German legal scholar, diplomat and writer.

Life

Act

The grandson of Dionysius Melander and son of Dionys [is] Melander, according to his own statements, studied law at the University of Wittenberg . After trying unsuccessfully as a lawyer in Marburg , Hanau and Herborn , he went to Bohemia , where he gained the trust of Emperor Ferdinand II as a diplomat and lawyer . Therefore he converted from the Protestant faith to the Roman Catholic.

In his early legal writings, disgusted by the cruel "water test", he spoke out against witch trials . In addition, with his Idea sive Exegesis universi studi politici, ex media Jurisprudentia ac civili sapientia desumta , published in 1599, he drafted the founding publication of academic political science in Germany. Building on his father's collection, he maintained the collection of Latin swans, jokes, anecdotes and apophtegmata, which he brought to print from 1600–1604. Since this work was received very positively, Wolfgang Ketzel published the German translation under the title Joco Seria, Das ist Schimpff and Ernst, first in Lich in 1605 and in Darmstadt in 1618. Until the 18th century, the content it contained was widely adopted by other authors of the same genre.

Land acquisition

1629 bought Melander the rule of German Bilau consisting of the villages Bela nad Svitavou , Vítějeves , Chrastavec , Brněnec , Půlpecen and Zářečí , today a district of Březová nad Svitavou and the government cretin, consisting of the villages Vřesice , Vranová , Křetín , Veselka , Dolní Poříčí ,  Horní Poříčí ,  Prostřední Poříčí ,  Bohuňov ,  Študlov  and Bradlné .

family

In 1631 Otto Melander married Sophia Sidonia von Grünberg, daughter of Johann Christoph von Grünberg, imperial chamber councilor.

Selection of works

  • Jocorum atque seriorum ..., Liber primus secundus Tertius, Lichae 1600–1604, 1610–1646
  • Resolutio praecipuarum quastionum criminalis adversus sagas processus, Lichae 1597
  • Centuria Controversaum juris feudalis, 1594
  • Exesis totius Studii Politici
  • Idea sive Exegesis universi studi politici, ex media Jurisprudentia ac civili sapientia desumta
  • Loci communes controversarum juris feudalis quaestionum in quibus tam pro affirmativa, quam negativa sententia ordinariae Doctorum sedes aperiuntur. Juncta passim juris Saxonici discrepantia eiusque demonstratis fontibus. Lich, Per Conradum Nebenium & Wolfgangum Kezelium, 1601
  • Descifiones Juris Feudalis, Frankfurt 1601
  • Tractatus de modo discendi jura, Lich 1605
  • To testamentarum actis judicis insinuarum absque testibus valear, Frankfurt 1597
  • Comment. In Noe Meureri Processum Cameralem, Münchhausen 1601
  • de purgatione per aquam frigidam, Lich 1597
  • detutelis Marburg 1593
  • ideam studii politici, Frankfurt / M. 1615

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volume 1 as digitized version and full text in the German Text Archive , Volume 2 as digitized version and full text in the German Text Archive
  2. ↑ Gottlieb von Hagen, Zachar Friedenreich, Johannes Leo, Laurentius Drach: Epithalamia in Nuptias Secundas Magnifici, Nobilißimi, Clarißimi & Consultißimi Domini Dni: Ottonis Melandri a Schwartzenthal ... Quas cum Nobilißima Virgine Sophia Sidonia a Grünberg ... Joannis Christophori a Grünberg ... lectißima filia, Ad diem 21. Iulii Anno 1631 celebravir Viennae Austriae / Ab Amicis Conscripta , Rictius: Vienna, 1631 Wolfenbüttel digital library of the Herzog August library, occasional writing: Hochzeit, Wolfenbüttel, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Melander, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otho Schwarzenthal; Schwarzmann; woodapple
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Scorn at Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH 1640
Place of death Prague