Wolfgang Hirschbach

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Wolfgang Hirschbach (born January 19, 1570 in Gotha , † September 13, 1620 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The son of the mayor Christoph Hirschbach and his wife Anna, the daughter of the Gotha merchant Hieronymus Poppe, lost his mother at the age of three. He attended the grammar school in Gotha, which at the time was under the direction of Johann Hero, who later became Gotha superintendent. It was there that Hirschbach acquired a solid education, insights and experiences that developed and shaped character and way of life. An academic career was planned for him from an early age. His enrollment at the University of Jena in 1585 can be seen under this impression . Because only after completing his training in Gotha did he move into the university in 1587.

In Jena, in keeping with the customs of the time, he first studied basic philosophy and then turned to law. On September 9, 1593 he continued his studies at the University of Wittenberg and received his doctorate there on March 7, 1598 as a doctor of law. As early as 1595, Hirschbach was active, partly in Leipzig, as a study director and teacher for a number of young noblemen. Apparently he earned merit in this, so that the Saxon dynasty accepted his offer and officially hired him on September 30, 1601 as the preceptor of the Duke August of Saxony . After his brother-in-law Benedikt Carpzov the Elder left Wittenberg, Hirschbach was given the fourth professorship at the institute in 1602 - presumably also thanks to the favor of the electoral house.

In 1608 he rose to the third professorship in criminal law and was associated with his professorships as assessor at the electoral court, the law faculty and the Schöppenstuhl in Wittenberg. In that assignment he read the "materias juris emphyteutici et compensationes" and in the summer semester of 1611 he was the rector of the university .

After falling ill with a fever, he died and was buried on September 17th in Wittenberg.

family

On May 21, 1604 he married Magaretha (born September 22, 1587 in Wittenberg), the youngest daughter of Samuel Selfisch . On October 26, 1630, his widow married Matthias Wendick, a candidate for rights. Hirschbach's marriage resulted in nine children, three of whom died before their father.

From a private perspective, the connection to the electoral house must have been close, because the Wittenberg baptismal register lists Christian II of Saxony , August of Saxony and Sophie of Saxony as godparents for the baptism of his first-born son August .

Of the children are known

  1. August Hirschbach (born April 24, 1605 in Wittenberg, † September 5, 1626 in Wittenberg)
  2. Christian Hirschbach (born June 26, 1606 in Wittenberg)
  3. Magaretha Hirschbach (born February 18, 1608 in Wittenberg, † May 19, 1630 in Wittenberg) married. November 6, 1627 with M. Martin Martinus, pastor in Sohlen
  4. Anna Sabina Hirschbach (born May 8, 1610 in Wittenberg; † 1641) married. August 1, 1631 with Cornelius Crull from Dresden
  5. Wolfgang Christoph Hirschbach (born August 12, 1611 in Wittenberg; † March 10, 1612 in Wittenberg)
  6. Samuel Hirschbach (born February 25, 1613 in Wittenberg, † March 5, 1613 in Wittenberg)
  7. Wolfgang Christoph II. Hirschbach (born February 25, 1613 in Wittenberg; † March 6, 1613 in Wittenberg)
  8. Christina Elisabeth Hirschbach (born October 10, 1614 in Wittenberg, † October 9, 1633 in Wittenberg)
  9. Wolfgang Ludwig Hirschbach (born August 26, 1619 in Wittenberg,) Stud. At the UWB and 1640 at the ULzg.

Selection of works

  • Synopsis quaestionum feudalium, Wittenberg 1600
  • De reconventionibus, Wittenberg 1611
  • De crimine laesae majestatis, Wittenberg 1615
  • De compensationibus, Wittenberg 1616
  • De regalibus, Wittenberg 1618
  • Ad L. un. C. de his qui parentes, Wittenberg 1619

literature

  • R. Strinzing: History of the law. Verlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich and Leipzig 1880, 1st section, pp. 655, 722
  • Ernst Reimann: Education of princes in Saxony at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. Verlag Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1904, p. 163
  • Hans Konrad Leonhard: Samuel Selfisch: A German bookseller at the exit of the XVI. Century. Jäh & Schunke, Leipzig 1902
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars . Leipzig 1750, part 2, p. 1627
  • Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 7, p. 467
  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
  • Baptism, death and grape books Wittenberg
  • Johann Samuelersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1831, Section 2, Part 8, p. 416
  • Karl Kehrbach: Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica. A. Hofmann & Co., Berlin 1913, volume LII
personal data
SURNAME Hirschbach, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1570
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1620
Place of death Wittenberg