Ernst von Meier

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Ernst von Meier

Ernst Ludwig Arnold Meier , von Meier from 1888(born October 12, 1832 in Braunschweig , † April 21, 1911 in Berlin ), was a German legal scholar .

Life

Ernst von Meier came from an old Hildesheim bourgeois family from which theologians , civil servants and lawyers emerged. His father Ernst Meier (1790–1874), himself a doctor of law, was a city ​​councilor in Braunschweig. His mother Luise (1812–1878) was the daughter of the appellate judge and councilor Rudolph Lüderßen (1778–1826). His brother was the professional officer and local historian Heinrich Meier .

Meier began studying at Heidelberg University in 1852 , where he attended lectures by the historians Ludwig Häusser (1818–1867) and Georg Gervinus (1805–1871). His main focus was on the subject of law, including the lectures of Robert von Mohl (1799-1875). In 1855 he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Berlin , where he passed his first law degree and in 1856 with the theme "The rights education in church and state" for doctor of canon law doctorate .

In 1856 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen and was subsequently a private lecturer in canon law, legal encyclopedia, German legal history and German constitutional law. In 1865 Meier moved back to Berlin, where he completed his habilitation again in 1866. He also had a job as a government trainee in Szczecin . In 1868 he was appointed associate professor in the law faculty at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . After participating in the French campaign and in 1871, Meier accepted a call as a full professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.

Meier became rector of the Halle Alma Mater in 1879 , curator at the University of Marburg in 1886 and curator at the University of Göttingen in 1888. In the same year he was raised to the Prussian nobility. Due to disputes with Minister Friedrich Althoff (1839–1908), he returned to Berlin, where he was active in literature in the last years of his life.

In 1894 the University of Göttingen awarded him an honorary doctorate in philosophy . In 1901 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Fonts

  • On the relationship between justice and administration in England. In: Journal for German Constitutional Law. 1st year, 1867, pp. 275–353.
  • Administrative law. In: Franz von Holtzendorff (ed.): Encyclopedia of Law. 1870, pp. 693-746, and 1904, pp. 639-760.
  • About the conclusion of state treaties. 1874.
  • On the question of communal taxation. In: Series of publications by the Association for Social Policy. 1877, pp. 77-109.
  • Robert von Mohl. In: Journal for the entire field of criminal law . (ZGStW) No. 34, 1878, pp. 431-528.
  • The reform of the administrative organization under Stein and Hardenberg. Leipzig 1881. 2nd edition 1912.
  • Constitutional and administrative history of Hanover. 2 volumes. 1898/1899.
  • French influences on the state and legal development of Prussia in the 19th century. 2 volumes. 1907/08.
  • Savigny. common law and the Prussian state in 1818. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . German Department (ZSRG.G) No. 39, 1909, pp. 318–326.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karsten Kablitz: Heinrich Meier. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. S: 407-408.


personal data
SURNAME Meier, Ernst von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1911
Place of death Berlin