Philipp Balthasar Gerdes
Philipp Balthasar Gerdes (* 1680 in Greifswald ; † October 21, 1736 there ) was a German legal scholar.
Life
The son of Friedrich Gerdes (1634–1696), president of the court court and professor in Greifswald, and Anna Erich attended the city schools in Greifswald and Stralsund . From 1698 he studied at the universities of Greifswald and Halle . Then he went to his brother-in-law, the Mecklenburg government councilor Jacob Balthasar, in Rostock to learn legal practice.
After his return to Greifswald he practiced as a lawyer there and was licensed in 1708 . After the death of Johann Philipp Palthen in 1710, he took over his full professorship in history and morals and read universal history and natural law . After Johann Schack's death in 1714, he became a full professor of law . In this office he taught, among other things, the institutions of Gaius , Pandects and feudal law . In 1719 and 1727 he was rector of the university.
Together with his cousin Henning Christoph Gerdes (1665–1723) he worked at the Greifswald consistory from 1719 and became consistorial director after his death in 1724. Both had a major influence on Augustin von Balthasar's legal training . Philipp Balthasar Gerdes supported the followers of Pietism at the University of Greifswald Heinrich Brandanus Gebhardi , Jakob Heinrich Balthasar and Michael Christian Rusmeyer in their dispute with the leader of Orthodox Lutheranism Jeremias Papke , in which he defended them from a legal point of view.
In 1734 he became director of the court court in Greifswald and gave up his professorship and his position in the consistory. He died as early as 1736 during a service in St. Mary's Church .
See also
literature
- Adolf Häckermann : Gerdes, Philipp Balthasar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 731 f.
- Nils Jörn : Gerdes, Philipp Balthasar (1680–1736). In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 1 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20936-0 , pp. 85-89.
Web links
- Literature about Philipp Balthasar Gerdes in the state bibliography MV
- Writings by Philipp Balthasar Gerdes in the joint union catalog
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Brandanus Gebhardi | Rector of the University of Greifswald 1719 |
Johann Abraham Mayer |
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Andreas Westphal | Rector of the University of Greifswald 1727 |
Michael Christian Rusmeyer |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerdes, Philipp Balthasar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1680 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greifswald |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1736 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |