Wolfgang Hirschbach
Wolfgang Hirsch Bach ( born January 19, 1570 Gotha, † September 13, 1620 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar.
Life
The son of the mayor Christoph Hirsch Bach and his wife Anna, the daughter of the Gotha 's trade Jerome Poppe, at the age of three years, lost his mother. He attended the gymnasium in Gotha, the leadership of John Helder, later Gotha Superintendent under stood. There Hirschbachwinkel acquired a dignified education, insights and experiences that emerged character and way of life and had a lasting impact. An academic career was already early for him provided. Under that impression his enrollment at the University of Jena is to be considered in 1585. For it is only after the completion of his training in Gotha, he was referring in 1587 the university.
In Jena, he graduated from the customs of the time corresponding to first study the basic philosophical sciences and turned after a study of the law to. On September 9, 1593 he continued his studies at the University of Wittenberg and his doctorate there on March 7, 1598 Doctor of Law. As early as 1595 deer creek, partly in Leipzig, as study leader and teacher of a number of young nobleman operated. Apparently he acquired it merits so that the Saxon princes accepted his offer and officially hired him as preceptor of the Duke August of Saxony on September 30, 1601. After his brother Benedict Carpzov had left the Elder from Wittenberg, Hirschbachwinkel received - probably by the favor of an electoral house - 1602, the fourth chair of the institutes.
In 1608 he was promoted to the third professor of criminal law, was connected to his professorships Assessor at the electoral High Court, the Faculty of Law and Schoepp chair in Wittenberg. In that task he read the " materias juris et emphyteutici compensationes " and he managed during the summer semester 1611 the Rector of the University.
After he was suffering from fever, he died and was buried on 17 September in Wittenberg.
Family
On May 21, In 1604 he married Magaretha ( born September 22, 1587 Wittenberg), the youngest daughter of Samuel Selfisch. His widow married on October 26, 1630 the candidate of the rights Matthias Wendick. From the marriage Hirsch Bach's nine children were born, where three died before their father.
The connection to the elector's home must have been seen privately closely, because at the baptism of his eldest son August recorded the Wittenberg baptismal Christian II of Saxony, Augustus of Saxony and Sophie of Saxony as godfather.
Of the children are known
Selections
- Synopsis quaestionum feudalium, Wittenberg 1600
- De reconventionibus, Wittenberg 1611
- De crimine laesae majestatis, Wittenberg 1615
- De compensationibus, Wittenberg 1616
- De regalibus, Wittenberg 1618
- L. ad un. C. de his qui parentes, Wittenberg 1619