Wolfgang Hunger (legal scholar)

Wolfgang Hunger (* 1511 in Kolbing ; † July 26, 1555 in Augsburg ) was a German legal scholar , university professor and Chancellor of Freising .

Life

Hunger received his school education in Munich . He went to study law at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . From there he went on to France, where he studied more deeply and gave a lecture on institutiones juris civilis at the University of Bourges . Also in France, he received his doctorate in both rights .

In 1540, Hunger accepted a call to the University of Ingolstadt . In 1541 he became rector of this university. Emperor Karl V appointed him assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer in 1549 . A little later he was appointed Chancellor in Freising by Heinrich von der Pfalz . As such, he was envoy to the Diet of Augsburg in 1555 , where he suddenly died. Shortly before his death, he was raised to the nobility by Emperor Ferdinand I.

One of his children was the Ingolstadt scholar Albert Hunger .

Notae in Joan. Cuspiniani de Caesaribus atque imperatoribus opus insigne. , New edition Frankfurt am Main 1601.
Extract of written imperial and holy Roman rights , Ingolstadt 1567.
Apologia per Ludovico IV Imperatore ex Domu Bavarica , in: Finauer's Bibliothek der Staats- und Kirchengeschichte, Munich 1772, Volume II, p. 65 ff.
Lingua germanicae vindicatio contra exoticas quasdam, quae complurium vocum et dictionum mere germanicarum Etymologias ex sua petere sunt conati , first published posthumously in 1586.

Georg Westermayer : Hunger, Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 414 f.
Karl Bosl (Hrsg.): Bosl's Bavarian biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-1162-8 , p. 380.

personal data
SURNAME	Hunger, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kulbingensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, university professor and Freising Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH	1511
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kolbing
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1555
Place of death	augsburg