Poul Cypræus

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Drawing from 1739 of the epitaph for Cypraeus in the Schleswig Cathedral

Poul Cypræus , also Paulus Cypræus , born as Poul Koppersmidt , also Poul Kupferschmidt (born April 16, 1536 in Schleswig ; † June 2, 1609 there ) was a German lawyer, historian and member of the college of the cathedral school in Schleswig .

Life

Poul Cypræus was a son of Claus Koppersmidt. He worked as Schleswig mayor and canon and died on February 14, 1574. The mother's name is not documented. He had a brother named  Hieronymus Cypraeus , who worked as a canon in Schleswig. During his studies, he changed his surname to the Latin-sounding form Cypraeus (Latin cyprum, -i, n. = 'Copper'). His first marriage was Etta Ivers, the daughter of the Frisian Wake Ivers, and his second marriage was Gertrud von Eitzen, daughter of the superintendent Paul von Eitzen .

After attending school in Schleswig, he went to Leuven to study for three years (1554–57) . Here he lived with Anders Lauridsen , who later became professor of theology in Copenhagen . Both then probably went to Wittenberg . But Cypraeus soon moved on to England, where he studied for another three years (old and newer languages ​​and mainly law, in which he finally received his doctorate in 1566).

His next stop was the academy in Orléans from 1563 . There were also many Danish nobles there, including Arild Huitfeldt , with whom he had a very long friendship because they were both interested in the history of Denmark. He stayed in Orléans for five years and became a shop steward for the German nation there in 1563/64 .

He also visited Spain and Italy before finally returning to Schleswig, where he became a lawyer and in 1568 got a canon position . When Duke Adolf von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf established a university-like upper level for the local cathedral school for his duchy in Schleswig in 1576, he was commissioned to present law. This institute did not have a permanent existence.

He was one of the advisors to Duke Adolf and his successors and was entrusted with several embassies to the King of Denmark, in 1583 to Spain to Philip II , to the States General of the Netherlands and various German princes and cities. Despite his ailments since 1590, he also helped to overcome the crisis in the Gottorf state after the death of Duke Adolf (1586), whereby his friendship with Huitveld, who had been Danish chancellor since 1586, in Orléans proved useful.

In addition, he was a prince of the Gottorfischer council and senior of the chapter at Schleswig Cathedral .

Among other things, he wrote Tractatus de iure connubiorum (Frankfurt 1605) in 1605, where he spoke out against the Lutheran leveling out between engagement and marriage. Many of his legal and historical works about Schleswig were published posthumously by his sons, so that by Peder Kofod Ancher continued work Commentarius Pauli Cypraei in leges Slesvicenses (Copenhagen 1776), De origine, nomine, priscis sedibus, lingua prisca, moribus antiquissimis, rebus gestis et migrationibus Saxonum, Cimbrorum, Vitarum & Anglorum apospasmation .

His son (Johann) Adolf , born in 1592, became a theologian and converted to the Roman Catholic Church in Cologne in 1633. In 1634 he published the Annales Episcoporum Slesvicensium , which his father had collected .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Cypraeus Paul . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, p. 95.
  2. ^ Christoph Römer:  Kupferschmidt, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 318 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Rørdam calls it " Gymnasium illustrious ". It was a "paedagogium publicum", which was set up in 1567 according to the Bugenhagen church order for Schleswig and Holstein as the superstructure of the chapter school in Schleswig, but was not called "Gymnasium illustrious". It was repealed in 1586. Arno Seifert in Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte Vol. 1 (Beck-Verlag 1900). S. 311. with indication of his sources: FM Rendtorff: The Schleswig-Holstein school regulations from the 16th to the beginning of the 19th century. Kiel 1902. S. 4 ff., 178 ff., 196 ff .; J. Freisen: "School regulations in Schleswig-Holstein since the introduction of the Reformation." In: Mitt. D. Ges. F. German ore and Schulgesch . 9 (1899), pp. 133-167, 154 ff.
  4. ^ Beck'sches Juristenlexikon
  5. ↑ Pauli Cypræi de Con̄ubiorū jure tractatus a multis Desideratus, quaestiones plerasque omnes, quae in hac materia moveri possunt, tum varios casus, qui circa eam quotidie in consistoriis occurrunt, a nemine hactenus tractatus dilucide explicans ac decidens ... editus from Hieronymo ejus filio: cum praefat. Herm. Vulteji. Frankfurt 1605 and 1622.
personal data
SURNAME Cypræus, Poul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cypræus, Paulus; Koppersmidt, Poul (maiden name); Kupferschmidt, Poul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, historian and member of the college of Schleswig Cathedral School
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1536
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1609
Place of death Schleswig