Rasmus Vinding

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Rasmus Vinding (born March 19, 1615 in Vindinge, today Fuirendal near Næstved on Zealand ; † September 4, 1684 ) was a Danish professor in Copenhagen .

In 1622 his father was transferred to Herlufsholm , where Rasmus went to school until 1632. Until 1635 he attended school in Copenhagen. In 1638 he went on trips abroad to Leiden and Paris . He then attended the University of Angers and then the great Jesuit college in La Flèche . There he wrote the political writing De Regno hæreditario et electivo (About the hereditary and elected royalty ). In La Flèche he received the appointment of Bishop Brochmand to be the rector of Sorø . He went to Sorø and in 1641 acquired the master's degree required for the office . So he successfully held the office of rector until April 1646. Since he did not like the school service, he withdrew into private life until he was appointed professor of Greek at the University of Copenhagen in February 1648. In this position he acquired a high reputation, was from 1658 to 1672 a representative of the Trinity Church and from 1660 until shortly before his death also of the Church of Our Lady. On July 16, 1649 he married the daughter of Professor Jakob Fincke Margarethe. When she died on August 15, 1650, he married the daughter of Bishop Jacob Matthiesen von Aarhus Ingeborg, a relative of his first wife. This is how he got into the scholarly aristocracy of Copenhagen.

After the great siege of Copenhagen from 1658 to 1660, he became a university deputy at the great diet of 1660. There he was given the opportunity to continue his thoughts on hereditary kingship and absolutism, which he had developed in France twenty years earlier. As early as 1660 he became assessor in the royal chancellery college, and at the same time in the supreme court. In 1664 he accompanied Chancellor Peder Reedtz to Norway to help set up a Supreme Court. In 1661 he moved from the chair of Greek to the now vacant chair of history and geography. But because of his many responsibilities in the state, he was exempt from lecturing. In 1679 he became a chancellery, in 1680 a judicial councilor and in 1684 a budget councilor.

Participation in the development of the law

Although he did not have a full legal education, he had the greatest influence on Danish legal development in his day. The Danske Lov is largely his work. He had not been there from the start, but only became a member of the third legislative commission. Until then, Peder Lassen had had the greatest influence on the law. Until Lassen's death there was a bitter struggle between the two over the final form of the law. Vinding drew up a new draft in 1669, which was more progressive than a draft drawn up by the commission in 1667. Ultimately, the Vinding draft was essentially adopted and passed into law in 1683.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ HF Rørdam: Vinding, Rasmus . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 19 : Vind – Oetken . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1905, p. 26-28 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ Poul Johs. Jørgensen: - Skjønt Rasmus Vinding… In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 19 : Vind – Oetken . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1905, p. 28–30 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Vinding, Rasmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Vindinge, today Fuirendal near Næstved on Zealand
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1684