Werner Brekewoldt

Werner Brekewoldt (* around 1400 in Lübeck ; † between 1432 and 1440 there) was canon lawyer and second rector of the University of Rostock .

Life

Brekewoldt came from a patrician family in Lübeck and was the son of the dressmaker and Lübeck mayor Konrad Brekewoldt . He studied canon law from 1415 to 1418 at the University of Paris , where he graduated with a licentiate. In the winter semester 1419/1420 he matriculated as Dominus ("Dns.") And graduate ("lic. In decretis") at the law faculty at the University of Rostock . In 1420 he became the second rector of the university, succeeding the founding rector Petrus Stenbeke . In 1424 he traveled to Italy to do his doctorate in Rome and his canonicals at Lübeck Cathedral and in Bützowto submit to the Curia. Before 1428 he retired to his hometown Lübeck, where he died between 1432 and 1440 and was buried in Lübeck Cathedral. His tomb is neither preserved nor documented.

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 .
• Entry on Werner Brekewoldt in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
2. ^ Entry on Werner Brekewoldt in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

predecessor	Office	successor
Petrus Stenbeke	Rector of the University of Rostock SS 1420	Dietrich Zukow