David Mevius

David Mevius (6 December 1609, Greifswald – 14 August 1670, Greifswald) was a legal practitioner and one of the most important lawyers of the usus modernus. David Mevius statue symbolizes the Faculty of Law at the Greifswalder.

Life and work David Mevius was the second son of the Greifswald law professor Friedrich Mevius and his wife Elisabeth Rhaw. He received his first education at the Latin School in Greifswald and first attended the University in the study of theology. Soon, however, he turned to the Jurisprudence and studied from August 1629 at the University of Rostock. Later he undertook long journeys, also because of the misery in Pomerania during the Thirty Years' War. In 1635 he came to Greifswald, where at the law school a vacancy was vacant. At the end of 1636 he received the chair of Friedrich Gerschow, who died on 6 September 1635. The church was badly damaged in an air raid just before the end of the war in 1945. It was blown up in August 1960. The epitaph was transferred to the St. Nicholas Church where it was extensively restored.

At the Greifswalder Rubenow Monument, a statue of Mevius symbolizes the Faculty of Law.