Philipp Knipschildt
German legal historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philipp Knipschildt was a jurist and legal historian. Life Philipp Knipschildt was born in Treisbach , the son of Melchior Knipschildt and Catharina née Lefart. From c. 1604 he attended school at Medebach in the Duchy of Westphalia; as a Protestant, he moved to Sachsenhausen in the Duchy of Waldeck in 1606. He spent several years in Wildungen and Korbach before enrolling at the Soest Archigymnasium. He attended the University of Giessen from 1615 to 1620 before serving as tutor to Prince Charles Ludwig of Pfalz-Veldenz until 1623. Subsequently, he studied at Strasbourg, obtaining his doctoral degree on November 4, 1626, with a study of fideicommissa. He became engaged to Elisabeth Kreidenmann from Esslingen that same year.
