Lüder Mencke
Lüder Mencke (14 December 1658 – 26 June 1726) was a German scholar and jurist. He was a professor at the law faculty and from 1707–1711 rector of the University of Leipzig.
Biography
Lüder Mencke was born in Oldenburg, the son of Helmerich Mencke, a businessman. He attended school in Nordhausen and Merseburg and then studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Jena, alongside Georg Adam Struve. In 1680, he received his master's degree and in 1682 he was awarded a doctorate in law. August Mutzenbecher describes him in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie as a “very small, but pious and hardworking” man, whose lectures and writings had received “extraordinary approval”.
In 1699, he became an assessor at the law faculty, and in 1702 Mencke was given the full professorship for Saxon and general particular law at the law faculty of the University of Leipzig. In 1705, he lectured on the Institutes. In 1708, he changed to a chair on the Pandects, which he held until his death. From 1707 to 1711, he was rector of the university. His cousin Otto Mencke was also a professor in Leipzig (for morality and politics) at this time, as well as the editor of the scholarly journal Acta Eruditorum. Lüder Mencke's son Gottfried Ludwig Mencke also became a professor at the Faculty of Law in 1712.
In addition to his work at the university, Lüder Mencke was also a member of the Upper Court of the Electorate of Saxony. He was a secular canon of the cathedral chapters of Naumburg (from 1708) and Merseburg (from 1709). From 1709, he carried the title of Royal Council. From 1720, he was also a judge in his place of residence at Gohlis, then a suburb of Leipzig, of which he was also the landowner.
On June 27, 1681, Mencke's msartied Dorothea Elisabeth († August 5, 1683 in Leipzig), the daughter of the senior court protector Johann Gottfried Trübe. However, she died giving birth to her only child, Gottfried Ludwig Mencke. His second marriage was on May 30, 1686 in Leipzig with Rosine Elisabeth Horn († November 14, 1707 in Leipzig), the widow of the theologian and preacher Daniel Griebner. They Hand three children: Heinrich Otto (born in 1690), Johanna Catharina (1691–1696), Magaretha Christina (born in 1696; married the legal scholar Friedrich Alexander Künhold in 1722). His third marriage was on July 25, 1713 with Christiane Sophia Schubart, the daughter of Gottfried Adolf Suja. This marriage remained childless.
Today, Mencke street and Lüder street in Leipzig-Gohlis are named after Lüder Mencke.
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