Profile Author:
Mikkel Munthe Jensen
Last Update:
2026-04-29
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Reyher, Samuel (* 1635.04.19 † 1714.11.20)
Basic Overview Data
Born
1635.04.19, Schleusingen
Died
1714.11.20, Kiel
Confession
Protestant, Lutheran
Institutional Affiliation
University of Leipzig
University of Kiel
Keywords
Protestant, Lutheran
Important Family Relations
Father, Andreas Reyher, rector of Gymnasium Ernestinum (Gotha)
Biographical and Intellectual Profile
Biography
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Comment on main natural law works
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Comment on profile’s conception of natural law
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Biographical Data
Education
1654 - 1656, Mathematics, jurisprudence, and philosophy, University of Leipzig [Jacob Thomasius]
1656.03.17 - 1661, Jurisprudence, mathematics, oriental studies, University of Leiden
Degrees
1655, Baccalaureate of philosophy, University of Leipzig
1656, Magister philosophiae, University of Leipzig
1666, Doctor of law, University of Leiden
Travels
1656\.. - ../1660, The Netherlands (Leiden)
1665 - 1666, The Netherlands
Teaching
1673, Winter semester, "History of the entire law", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1674, Summer semester, "Law of nature and nations, divine law", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1681, Summer semester, "History of universal law", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1689, Summer semester, "History of universal law", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1696, Summer semester, "History of universal law", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1697, Summer semster, "History of universal law", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1699, Winter semester, "History of universal law", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1701, Summer semester, "History of universal law", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1702, Summer semester, "History of universal law", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1703, Winter semester, "History of universal law", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1707, Summer semester, "Natural law, history of law", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1707, Winter semester, "Divine law, positive law", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1709, Winter semester, "Natural law, history of law", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1710, Winter semester, "Natural law, law of nations, civil law", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1710, Summer semsester, "Elemental law", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1714, Winter semester, "History of universal law", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
Career
1661 - 1662, Docentus, University of Leipzig
1662 - ../1665, Hofmeister (Private teacher), Princely House of Coburg
1665 - 1714, Ordinary professor of mathematics, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy
1673 - 1683, Extraordinary professor of Institutiones, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
1683 - 1692, Ordinary professor of Institutiones, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
1692 - 1714, Ordinary professor of Codex, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
Titles, Memberships and Other Relevant Roles
1686, Herzoglicher Rat (Ducal councillor), Court of Gotha
1702, Member, Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences), Berlin
Bibliographical Data
Printed Sources
Books
[Publisher] Robert Scharrockius de officiis secundum ius naturae annotationibus nonnullis non inutilibus illustratus, ac praeterea indice auctus (Gotha: Reyher, Schallius, 1667).
Kurtz gefasste allgemeine Rechts-Geschichte, oder Historia juris universalis (Hamburg, Benjamin Schillern, 1702).
- Edition 1704 (Hamburg, Benjamin Schillern): Digital version
- Edition 1710 (Hamburg, Benjamin Schillern).
Historia jurium universalis: In qva genuinis jurium naturae, gentium et civilium principiis praemissis, jura divina et humana, cum personarum et juris textuum indicibus anno M DCCXI (Kiel: Reuther, 1711): Digital version
- Edition 1718 (Lübeck: Böckmann)
Dissertations
Disputatio iuridica inauguralis de iure primigeniturae (Leiden: Hacke, 1665).
Disputatio iuridica, de milite (Kiel: Reumann, 1685), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Peter Lorenz Michaelis]: Digital version
De natura et iure aquarium atque aquæductuum (Kiel: Reumann, 1693), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Tobias Ludewig von Haugwitz].
De natura et iure auditus ac soni (Kiel: Reumann, 1693), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Caspar Ringelmann].
Positiones cum suis expositionibus ex iure civili, feudali, canonico, Saxonico (Kiel: Reumann, 1693), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Heinrich von Buchwald]: Digital version
De officiis iudicum (Kiel: Reuther, 1703), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Johann Augustin Fasch]: Digital version
De juribus positivis tam divinis, quam humanis, et in specie ante lapsum latis, post lapsum antediluvianis (Kiel: Reuther, 1707), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Detlev Göring]: Digital version
De juribus Hamburgensi, Judtico, Danico, Suecico, Norwagico, Borussico, Hanseatico (Kiel: Reuther, 1709), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Christian Erasmus Selmer].
De genuinis jurium naturae, gentium et civilium principiis, ex iimpidissimis verbi divini fontibus, ac vasto juris Romani oceano, ejusque Interpretibus derivatis (Kiel: Reuther, 1710), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Johann Michel Eckhard].
De iuribus Dithmarsico, Livonico, Polonico, Lithuanico, Russico, Hispanico, Lusitanico, Gallico & Anglico (Kiel: Reuther, 1710), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Fridericus Wilhelmus Ginheimer]: Digital version
De iuribus Anglico, Scotico, Hybernico, Batavico, Frisico, Veneto, Helvetico, Turcico, Persico, Sinensi, Iaponico, Indico, Abyssino, Guineano (Kiel: Reuther, 1710), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Christianus Albertus Opitius].
De juribus naturae, utroque gentium, utroque civili, collegiorum, familiarum, pollicitationum ac votorum, eorumque origine, nec non de Aequitate (Kiel: Reuther, 1707/11), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Christian Schmidt]: Digital version
De historiæ iuris universalis spicilegio (Kiel: Reuther, 1711), [Praeses: Samuel Reyher, Respondent: Johann Sebald Borndien]: Digital version
Manuscript Sources
Natural Law Network
Personal Connections
1665, Samuel Rachel, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1665, Daniel Georg Morhof, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1666, Nicolaus Martini, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1682, Simon Heinrich Musäus, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1689, Georg Pasch, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1701, Sebastian Kortholt, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1704, Christoph Heinrich Amthor, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1708, Andreas Ludwig Königsmann, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1708, Friedrich Gentzke, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1713, Franz Ernst Vogt, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
References and Acknowledgement
Profile References
Literature
Henning Ratjen: "Zur Geschichte der Universität - Die Professoren der juristischen Fakultät in Kiel" in Chronik der Universität zu Kiel (Kiel: C. F. Mohr, 1859), p. 4-30.
K.: "Reyher, Samuel" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 28 (1889), S. 354-358: Digital version
Volbehr, Friedrich & Richard Weyl: Professoren und Dozenten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665-1915 (Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1916) p. 26, 45, 92.
Sources
Matriculation (Leiden): Album Studiosorum: Academiae Lugduno Batavae, 1575-1875, (Hague: Nijhoff, 1875), col. 447.
Matriculation and degrees (Leipzig): Die Iüngere Matrikel der Universität Leipzig 1559-1809, vol. 2, ed. Georg Erler (Leipzig: 1909), p.356.
Portrait: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel; Bilddatei: haba-17539, URL: http://www.portraitindex.de/documents/obj/34022927
Acknowledgement
Profile Author:
Mikkel Munthe Jensen
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How to Cite This Profile
Jensen, Mikkel Munthe, "Samuel Reyher" in Natural Law 1625-1850: Database, ed. Mikkel Munthe Jensen (Erfurt, Gotha, Jena: ThULB, 2019-), Canonical URL: https://naturallawdatabase.thulb.uni-jena.de/item/natlaw_30