Philipp Matthäus (legal scholar)
Philipp Matthäus (born August 24, 1554 in Marburg , † June 18, 1603 ibid) was a German legal scholar .
Life
Philipp Matthäus was born as the son of the lawyer Konrad Matthäus , who lived from 1519 to 1580, as well as his wife Ursula Wernher (Konrad's second wife) and Anton Matthäus the Elder , who was born in 1564 and died in 1637. Born August 1554 in Marburg. Two of Philipp's nephews to be mentioned, who also became lawyers, were Anton Matthäus the second and Johannes Matthäus .
After Philipp attended schools in his hometown, he became a doctor of both rights at the University of Basel on February 28, 1581 . In that year he became the successor of his father, who had died shortly before, of the rhetoric professor at the University of Marburg , and in 1591 professor of the Institutiones Iustiniani . He married Margarethe Salfeld, who came from Zwingenberg , on April 21, 1583. In 1594 he was given the management of the pandect college.
Matthäus had been suffering from dropsy for a long time , and he finally died of this disease in Marburg on June 18, 1603 at the age of 49.
Works
- Disputationes XX de electis juris materiis, publice in Auditorio Ictor. Marpurgi habitae (1601)
- Commentarius in extremum Pand. tit. qui est de div.regulis juris antiqui (Marburg 1595)
literature
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Matthäus, Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 620 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matthew, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1554 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1603 |
| Place of death | Marburg |