Werner Justin Pagenstecher

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Werner Justin Pagenstecher (born December 23, 1671 in Duisburg , † March 13, 1742 in Marburg ) was a German lawyer . Since 1697 he was in the service of the Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt and since 1703 in the service of the Landgrave of Hesse .

Life

Werner Justin Pagenstecher was a son of the privy councilor Arnold Gisbert Pagenstecher (1615–1688) and his second wife Barbara von Rodenberg (1639–1687). He received his first training from Joachim Neander , rector of the grammar school in Düsseldorf . In 1686 he moved to the University of Duisburg, where he dealt with philosophy and history , but then began studying law , which he continued in Frankfurt an der Oder , Königsberg and Halle . After completing his academic training, he made a trip to the United Netherlands , through several German provinces as well as to Poland , Bohemia and France . After his return he received his legal doctorate in Duisburg in 1695 and found a good living with his practice.

In 1696 Pagenstecher made a trip to Berlin . Soon after his arrival there, he was offered a position as Professor of Law in Steinfurt and accepted this offer. When he was to be poached to Deventer , he was granted a raise in salary, and in 1697 the Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt appointed him Privy Councilor, Court Judge , Consistorial Councilor and Lehnpropst. Because of his extensive knowledge he was also used in foreign affairs, including to the royal British and Prussian courts, in 1702 to the army near Kalkar to Generals Tilly and Fagel , to the Brunswick court in Celle and to the Imperial Assembly in Cologne .

In 1703 Pagenstecher followed the call of Landgrave Karl von Hessen to Marburg as a councilor. In the same year he also became professor of law at the University of Marburg . In the first few years he still gave legal lectures on institutions and pandects . He was also still a constant councilor to the Counts of Steinfurt. At their request, he went back to Steinfurt in 1708 with the permission of the Hessian landgrave to settle various disputes between the local count and the diocese of Münster . However, since he was then needed on numerous domestic and foreign missions in Hessen-Kassel, he could not continue his academic career and no longer do any services for the Count of Steinfurt. He was also chosen to work on a Hessian land law. In 1727 he was appointed Vice Chancellor of Hessen-Kassel and President of the Supreme Court in Marburg. In June 1736 he resigned from this position and died on March 13, 1742 at the age of 70 in Marburg. Like his father, he left behind several legal dissertations.

Pagenstecher had married Johanna Dorothea von Winckel († 1697) on August 5, 1697 and Anna Magdalena Jungmann (1683 – after 1759), daughter of the Hessian government councilor Johann Heinrich Jungmann, on February 25, 1706 in Kassel. Of his eleven children, Hermann Heinrich Moritz (1722–1784) was a Count of Nassau's secret justice advisor and consistorial director in Dillenburg .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Pagenstecher, Werner Justin , in: Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching : Historical-literary manual of famous and memorable people who died in the 18th century , vol. 7, Leipzig 1805, p. 6 f.
  2. ^ Pagenstecher, Werner Justin. Hessian biography (as of December 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pagenstecher, Werner Justin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1742
Place of death Marburg