Philipp Knipschild

Philipp Knipschildt (* 1595 in Treisbach ( Waldeck ); † September 29, 1657 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a lawyer and legal historian .

Life

Philipp was born as the son of the Medebach- resident married couple Melchior Knipschild and Catharina Lefart on the noble farm Treisbach near Viermünden in the county of Waldeck . From around 1604 he attended school in Medebach in the Duchy of Westphalia , but about two years later moved with his teacher Conrad Lossaeus to Sachsenhausen in the county of Waldeck because of his religion (he was a Protestant) . Around 1608 he moved on to Wildungen and from there to Korbach , where he stayed for a good two years. From 1611 to 1615 he attended the Archigymnasium in Soest . He attended the University of Giessen from 1615 to 1620. After that he was educator of Prince Karl Ludwig von Pfalz-Veldenz (died 1631) until the end of 1623 . From 1623 to 1626 he studied in Strasbourg and obtained the doctorate on November 4, 1626. In the same year he got engaged to Elisabeth Kreidenmann from Esslingen.

The doctor of both rights had been legal advisor (consultant) to the Swabian knight cantons on Neckar and Kocher since 1631, and from 1641 also syndic of the imperial city of Esslingen. He had lived in Esslingen since 1629, because on September 1, 1629 he took the oath of citizens there “with a book under his arm and a pen behind his ear”.

He wrote the standard work on imperial city constitution in the early modern period ( Tractatus politico-historico-juridicus de juribus et privilegiis civitatum imperialium , Ulm 1657), a large work on imperial knighthood ( Tractatus politico-historico-juridicus de juribus et privilegiis nobilitatis ... , for the first time printed 1693) as well as work on entails and other legal writings.

As the son-in-law of Johann Conrad Kreidenmann , who also served the knight cantons and the imperial city of Esslingen, Knipschild was assigned by Otto Borst to what he called a historical school in Esslingen .

literature

• Otto Borst : History of the city of Esslingen am Neckar . 3rd edition Esslingen 1978, ISBN 3-7628-0378-1 , pp. 333-334
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Knipschild, Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 297 f.
• Klaus Luig : Philipp Knipschildt and the family entailment in the age of Usus modernus . In: Itinera Fiduciae , 1998 (not accessed )
• Fritz Schreiber: Philippus Knipschildt Medebachio Westphalus - Syndicus Esslingensis. The biography of an important lawyer (1595–1657) . Medebach 1998.

Web links

• Bibliography of the works
• Knipschild (Philipp). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 15, Leipzig 1737, column 1130.
• Article by D. Willoweit on his work