Nicolaus Reusner

He was born into a family of wealthy German landowners in Löwenberg, Silesia, who had recently moved there from Transylvania.

In Leipzig, imperial personal physician Georg Wirth (1524–1613) persuaded him to abandon medicine and study law.

In 1594 he was sent on an (unsuccessful) diplomatic mission to Krakau, to petition military support against the Turks on behalf of Mecklenburg.

In recognition of his service, emperor Rudolph II awarded him the heritable title of comes Palatinus (which was however extinct upon his death because he had no children).

He authored a total of 83 works on a wide range of topics, including poetry, biography, history, rhetorics, philosophy and natural science besides his proper field of civil and feudal law.