Wolfgang was the son of mayor Christoph Hirschbach and his wife Anna, who was the daughter merchant Hieronymus Poppe from Gotha. Hirschbach lost his mother at the age of three. He attended the Latin school in Gotha, which was under the direction John Helders who later became Gotha's superintendent. There Hirschbach acquired a solid education and insight and experience that had a lasting impact on his character and formed way of living. He was intended to follow an academic career from an early age. This explains his enrollment at the University of Jena in 1585. He went there after the completion of his training in Gotha in 1587. In Jena he followed the customs of the time and to first studied the philosophical sciences, and then turned to a degree in law. On 9 September 1593 he continued his studies at the University of Wittenberg. He completed his doctorate there on 7 March 1598 with a degree of Doctor of law. As early as 1595, Hirschbach acted as a tutor and teacher for a number of young nobles, in Wittenberg and also in Leipzig. Apparently, his lessons had merit and on 30 September the Electoral family 1601 hired him as preceptor of Duke August of Saxony. After his brother in lawBenedikt Carpzov the elder left Wittenberg in 1602, Hirschbach was appointed professor on the fourth chair, presumably on the recommendation of the Electoral family. In 1608 he was promoted to the third chair of the criminal law. Associated with this chair, were a position as assessor at the electoral court of justice, the Law Faculty and the Schöppenstuhl in Wittenberg. In that task, he read the materias juris emphyteutici et compensationes and he managed during the summer semester 1611 is the office of the Rector Magnificus of the University of Wittenberg. He died on 13 September 1620 from a fever and was buried on 17 September in Wittenberg.
Magaretha Hirschbach, married. 6 November 1627 to M. Martin Martinus, vicar in Sohlen
Anna Sabina Hirschbach married. 1 August 1631 with Cornelius Crull from Dresden
Wolfgang Christoph Hirschbach
Samuel Hirschbach
Christopher II Wolfgang Hirschbach
Christina Elizabeth Hirschbach
Wolfgang Ludwig Hirschbach Student of the University of Wittenberg and 1640 at the University of Leipzig.
Selected works
Synopsis quaestionum feudalium, Wittenberg 1600
De reconventionibus, Wittenberg 1611
De Crimins laesae majestatis, Wittenberg 1615
De compensationibus, Wittenberg 1616
De regalibus, Wittenberg 1618
Ad L. un. C. de his qui parentes, Wittenberg 1619
Additional sources
R. Strinzing: History of the law, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich and Leipzig, 1880, Part 1, p. 655, 722
Ernst Reimann: Princely education in Saxony at the end of the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th Century, Verlag Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden, 1904, p. 163
Hans Konrad Leonhard: Samuel Selfisch: a German bookseller at the close of the 16th Century, Jäh & Schunke, Leipzig 1902
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: General Scholars Lexicon, Leipzig 1750, Part 2, p. 1627
Fritz Roth: Evaluations of funeral sermons and writings for personal genealogical and historical and cultural purposes, Volume 7, p. 467
Walter Friedensburg: History of the University of Wittenberg, Max Niemeyer, Halle, 1917
Baptismal, death and marriage books Wittenberg
Johann Samuel Ersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1831, 2nd Section, Part 8, p. 416
Karl Kehrbach: Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica, A. Hofmann & Co., Berlin 1913, volume LII
