Basilius Monner (1500 - 16 January 1566 in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

) was a German jurist.

Life

Monner joined the

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in his youth. He enrolled at the University of Wittenburg at the height of the

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. In 1524, Monner became the Rector of the Gotha Gymnasium. He was active in this office for eleven years and graduated with a master's degree in the seven liberal arts in Jena. He later left Jena for the Wittenberg Academy in 1527 due to the plague.Walter Friedensburg: Urkundenbuch der Universität Wittenberg, 1926 im Selbstverlag der Historischen Kommission der Provinz Sachsen und Anhalt Magdeburg S. 149 In 1535, Monner began to study law at the Wittenberg University. He travelled to France during this time in 1538 as an envoy of the Protestants, and returned to Wittenberg on October 11, 1538, where he received his doctorate on January 16, 1539. In February 1539 he became a member of the newly-founded Wittenburg Consistory, the first of its kind. The institution was the origin of all evangelical consistories and courts of marriage. His work in the Consistory, however, was short-lived. On October 10, 1539 he began to counsel Johann Friedrich of Saxony, and became the educator of his sons. With this, he experienced - among other things - the defeat of the electoral line of Ernestine in the

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and the

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. After Monner finished the training of Duke

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on 30 September 1554, he went to the newly established Gymnasium in Jena as a professor of law in the autumn of 1554. Here, he worked alongside Gregor Brück, the regent of Saxony. As a participant in the

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, he experienced the founding of the University of Jena on 15 August 1557. After taking up teaching duties on February 2, 1558, he became one of the first teachers at the faculty of law, along with Matthias Wesenbeck. Monner worked specifically in the area of the Protestant marriage law. He understood how to combine the traditional foundations of the canon law with the new requirements of the Reformation and used the two in order to formulate his beliefs. As a person, he is described by contemporary witnesses as vain, domineering, zealous, and intriguing. As a religious fanatic of pure Lutheran doctrine, he had supported the opinion of

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primarily as a Gnesio-Lutheran.

Works

# ''Tractatus de matrimonio et clandestinis conjugiis.'' Jena 1561, 1603
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# ''De clandestinis conjugiis.'' Jena 1604 # ''Quod Defensio Sit Ex Lege Naturale. Von der Defension und Gegenwehr, ob man sich wieder der Obrigkeit Tyranny und unrecht Gewalt mit …'' 1546, 1632 # ''De matrimonio breuis et methodica explicatio.'' 1561 # ''Orationes tres pro legibus.'' Frankfurt 1560

References

* Eyk Ueberschär: Basilius Monner (um 1500 bis 6. Januar 1566) – Ein treuer Diener seiner Herren, In: Rechtsgelehrte der Universität Jena aus vier Jahrhunderten; Hrsg. Gerhard Lingelbach, Bussert und Stadeler Jena 2011, S. 5 ff. * Max Vollert: ''Basilius Monner, der erste Rechtslehrer an der Universität Jena.'' In: ''Zeitschrift des Vereins für Thüringische Geschichte und Altertumskunde'' Jg. 30. G. Fischer, 1932, S. 41–51
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* Otto Clemen: ''Basilius Monner = Zwei Briefe von Basilius Monner.'' In: ''Mitteilungen der Vereinigung für gothaische Geschichte und Altertumsforschung.'' Gesellschaft des Osterlandes, Altenburg 1912 * Johann Jakob Günter: ''Lebenskizzen der Professoren der Universität Jena seit 1558 bis 1858.'' S. 49
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* * H. Koch: ''Professor Basilius Monner, 1566 - Zu seinem 375. Todestage am 16. Januar - 1941.'' Manuskriptabdruck der Beilage ''Altes und Neues aus der Heimat'' eines Sonderdrucks des Jenaer Volksblatts
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* Max Schneider: ''Zur Geschichte des Gymnasiums Illustre in Gotha. 5. Beitrag Basilius Monnerus der erste Rekor des Gothaer Gymnasiums (1524-1524).'' In: ''Aus der Heimat. Blätter der Vereinigung für Gothaische Geschichte und Altertumsforschung.'' Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha, 1898, S. 98,
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* 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, S. 11 (Juristen
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External links

Druckschriften von Basilius Monner
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