Sebaldus Munsterer

Sebaldus Münsterer (also: Mönsterer, Munsterer ; * around 1495 in Nuremberg ; † October 26, 1539 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

In the summer of 1515, Münsterer moved to the University of Leipzig , where he acquired the degree of a Baccalaureus in the summer semester of 1516 and the academic degree of a master's degree in the winter semester of 1518 . On May 13, 1520 he entered the University of Wittenberg , where he continued his studies in 1527 through the promotion for Doctor graduated of secular law. Canon law did not please him; he therefore read the institutions until Johann Apel left in 1530 , the elector gave him his professorship and officially confirmed him in 1536.

In the winter semester of 1533/34, Münsterer was the rector's office of the Wittenberg Academy and had two sons matriculated during this time. In 1535 he was Vice-Rector in place of the honorary elected Duke Albrecht of Braunschweig. However, his early death tore him from his effectiveness. The wife of Münstereres had brought plague sufferers into the house and cared for them out of Christian charity. As a result, she infected herself and her husband with the disease, so that both died a few hours after one another. In Veit Winsheim's funeral speech , Münsterer is portrayed as a god-fearing, inward-looking personality who fulfilled her duties without undue ambition. Outwardly he did not stand out particularly in legal science.

Münsterer married Anna Barbara Krapp, the daughter of the former mayor of Wittenberg Hans Krapp and sister of Philipp Melanchthon's wife Katharina . Their daughter Anna Münsterer († 1567) married Ulrich Sitzinger , Dr. jur. and Chancellor of Zweibrücken . In addition, the son Sebald Münsterer d. J., who succeeded his brother-in-law in the office of Chancellor von Zweibrücken. The daughter Barbara Münsterer married Hyronymus Coeler from Nuremberg on February 14, 1536. Leonhard Münsterer was enrolled with his brother Sebald.

literature

• Karl Pallas: Documents concerning the Allerheiligenstift zu Wittenberg, 1522 to 1526, from the estate of N. Müller In: Archive for Reformation History (ARG). Volume 12, 1915.
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars. Volume 3, 1751, Col. 750.
• Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel, Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502–1574). A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0
• Münster or Munsterer, Sebald. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 22, Leipzig 1739, column 446.