Wolfgang Werther Mühlpfordt

Wolfgang Werther Mühlpfordt also: Mühlpfort, Mülpfort, Mülpfordt, Mülpfohrt (born November 2, 1575 in Roda / Thuringia ; † May 6, 1623 in Jena ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Mühlpfordt's ancestors come from a widely ramified Zwickau councilor and mayor family. His father Johann Friedrich Mühlpfordt (born November 1, 1550 † November 8, 1624 in Jena) was only clerk, then Office Schösser in Roda and has held twenty-seven years, the function of a public official Schössers of Ichtershausen and Wachsenburg. His mother Gertrud Körner (* Roda; † October 4, 1598 in Ichtershausen) also came from a dynasty of councilors and mayors of Roda and was the daughter of the magistrate Ilian Körner. Wolfgang Werther attended schools in Halle (Saale) and Magdeburg . He then began studies that took him to the University of Marburg , on October 10, 1595 to the University of Helmstedt , on August 6, 1597 to the University of Jena , the University of Cologne , the University of Heidelberg , the University of Strasbourg , the University of Freiburg / Breisgau and led to the University of Basel in 1602 .

In Basel he received his doctorate in law on October 21, 1602, then worked as a lawyer in Speyer and Leipzig . In 1605 he moved to Jena, where in 1611 he became an attorney at the court and in 1614 court counselor of Count Philipp Ernst von Hohenlohe-Langenburg . In 1619 he was given a full professorship in law at the Jena University and in 1620 he was appointed assessor at the court in Jena. As a university lecturer in Jena, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the educational institution. He was dean of the law faculty and in the summer semester of 1622 rector of the alma mater .

family

Mühlpfordt married on January 22, 1605 in Leipzig with Anna Elisabeth Krapp (born September 22, 1587 in Torgau, † July 22, 1624 in Jena), the daughter of Torgau councilor Andreas Krapp and his wife Elisabeth Leicher. He had nine children with her. Of the children are known:

• Johann Friedrich Mühlpfordt (born June 19, 1606 in Jena; † March 4, 1663 ibid.)
• Johann Daniel Mühlpfordt (born September 11, 1607 in Jena; † August 8, 1616 ibid.)
• Anna Maria Mühlpfordt (born August 10, 1609 in Jena; †) married. I. 1626 with the personal physician in Weimar Dr. med. Bernhard Heider, son of Jena professor Wolfgang Heider ; mated II. With the feudal secretary in Weimar Wolfgang Schaper
• Paul Mühlpfordt (born April 28, 1612 in Jena) presumably settled in West Prussia
• Hieronymus Mühlpfordt (* February 24, 1614 in Jena; † February 9, 1695 ibid.) Dr. jur., Count of Hohenlohischer Rat and Attorney at Court Court Jena, married. I. June 19, 1643 in Jena with Regina Schenck (born March 17, 1608 in Zwickau; † May 23, 1655 ibid.) Widow of Jacob Fomann, daughter of Jena professor Eusebius Schenck ; mated II June 2, 1656 with Anna Sabina Stahl (* June 18, 1636; † April 25, 1676 in Jena), the only daughter of the Jena professor Daniel Stahl ;
• Albert Wilhelm Mühlpfordt (born March 14, 1616 in Jena; † 1680) married. Martha Nacke (* 1619)
• Anna Elisabeth Mühlpfordt (born January 21, 1618 in Jena; † 1661 ibid.)
• Wolfgang Werther Mühlpfordt (born December 26, 1619 in Jena)
• Maria Magdalena Mühlpfordt (born January 23, 1622 in Jena; † July 9, 1636 ibid.)

Works (selection)

• De sponsalibus et nuptiis. Jena 1608 (Resp.Caspar Blum, online )
• Disputatio, De Adquirenda Vel Amittenda Possessione. Strasbourg 1602 (President Denis Godefroy (1549–1622), online )
• Quaestionum Iuris Controversi Decas. Jena 1608 (Resp. Wolfgang Textor (-1650), online )
• Disputatio Ultima. De Appellationibvs. Jena 1608 (Resp.Johann Fridell, online )
• Problematum Hanc Iuridico-Politicorum Disceptationem. Censione Et Suffragio. Jena 1608 (Resp.Balthasar Beck, online )
• Disputatio Illustrium Quarundam Quaestionum ex tit. De Emtione, Venditione, Locatione, Conductione, Et Emphyteusi Desumptarum. Jena 1609, (Resp.Johann Moritz Lentke, online )
• Singularia Iuris Controversi secundum ordinem Edicti perpetui discontinuum. Jena 1610 (Resp.Johannes Gulow, online )
• Theses Subsecuturas De Solutionibus. Jena 1611 (Resp.Caspar Kather, online )
• Theses de legitimadefensione. Jena 1612
• Disputatio Juridica, De Fidejussionibus. Jena 1618 (Resp.Levin Ludolph von Alvensleben, online )
• Disp. de conventione. Jena 1619 ( online )
• Positiones Iuridicae De Verborum Obligationibus, Materia Iuris Varia, Multiplici, Obscura & salebrosa. Jena 1619 (Resp. Martin Egbert, online )
• Disp. inaug. de iure venandi. Jena 1620 (Resp. Heinrich Neuenhahn, online )
• Disputatio Iuridica De Revisione. Jena 1620 (Resp.Johann Reuter, online )

literature

• Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christoph Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena, 1711, p. 99 (lawyers, online )
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1751, Vol. 3, Sp. 746, ( online )
• Mülpfort (Wolfgang Werther). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 22, Leipzig 1739, column 173.
• Bernhard Körner: German gender book. Verlag GA Starke, Görlitz, 1930, vol. 68, pp. 208-212