Johann Jakob Cella

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Johann Jakob Cella (born February 27, 1756 in Bayreuth ; † November 30, 1820 in Ansbach ) was a German lawyer and author of legal and socially critical writings.

Life

Jacob Cella grew up as the youngest of eight children of Mattheo Cella (1718–1789) and Emilia, née Hohlweg, in the courtly margravial milieu of Bayreuth and Erlangen . His father Mattheo Cella, who, according to the parish register of the Bayreuth town church, was a native Corsican, was valet and sub-director of the French comedy at the Bayreuth Margrave Court and was first mentioned in the Bayreuth court calendar in 1740 as domestics . His mother was a chambermaid there. After the death of Bayreuth Margravine Wilhelmine in October 1758, Margrave Friedrich married Sophie Caroline Marie , a sister of Anna Amalia of Weimar, in 1759 . Margrave Friedrich died in 1763 and in the following years the Cella family moved with the margrave's widow to Erlangen, Bayreuth's secondary residence, where the father finally took the position of steward of the so-called "Erlangen Margravine" from then on. Johann Jacob Cella graduated from high school in Erlangen and began studying law at Erlangen University , which he continued in Göttingen . After studying from 1771 to 1775 in Erlangen and Göttingen , he worked (like Goethe before him ) for almost two years in Wetzlar at the Imperial Court of Justice . Then he settled as a lawyer in Bayreuth. After he became secretary of the Ansbach minister Otto Heinrich von Gemmingen in 1778 , he accompanied him on a trip to Paris . Von Gemmingen, who was the same age as Cella and who, like him, was active as a writer, made friends with Mozart in Paris ; whether Cella was also connected to this group is unknown. In 1781, Cella became Kastner or bailiff in Ferrieden and Burgthann . In 1784 he received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen . From 1788 to 1796 he was “Princely. Nassau government and chancellery director ”in Weilburg and in 1797 received the post of district director in Schwabach . In 1808 he went to Ansbach as a district councilor, in 1810 as "Local Commisariats and Oberadministrations-Rath" to Nuremberg , in 1817 as Bavarian government councilor back to Ansbach, where he died in 1820. He is buried there. In Schwabach (Middle Franconia) a street was named after him.

Cella was married three times: from 1781 to 1792 in her first marriage to Helene Buff from Wetzlar , the youngest sister of Charlotte Buff , who became known from Goethe's “ The Sorrows of Young Werther ”. His second wife Luise Schellenberg died in 1794. He had eight children from his first marriage and six children from his third marriage with Johannette Sophie von Hert, several of whom died in childhood. This last marriage was concluded in Weimar in 1795 with the help of Johann Gottfried Herder .

meaning

Johann Jacob Cella made a name for himself through numerous legal and socio-political progressive studies. His works are still used in lectures on criminal law and copyright law at German universities, among others. Particularly noteworthy are his Freymüthigen essays (3 volumes, 1784–1786) and the monograph “About crime and punishment in fornication cases” (1787). Cella dealt with this topic several times. In particular his work “About child murder and its contraception” , printed in 1786 in the third volume of the frank essays, was of particular importance in Goethe's time.

Works (selection)

  • Cheerful essays. 3 volumes. Haueisen, Ansbach 1784–1786 ( digitized version of the first volume by the BSB ).
  • Of punishments for illegitimate impregnations, especially those of the otherwise common forced populations. Balanced on principles of equity and common sense. Haueisen, Anspach 1784 ( digitized version of the Regensburg University Library).
  • Answer to an unnamed thought about my treatise on the punishments of improper impregnations, especially those of the coercive populations that are in use. Axes Anspach 1784 ( Digitalisat the UB Regensburg ).
  • About crime and punishment for fornication. Hahn, Zweibrücken and Leipzig 1787 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data from the Princely Court Calendars of Bayreuth and Erlangen and the Bayreuth church registers.
  2. ^ Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen:  Cella, Johann Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 79.
  3. ↑ See Johann August Vocke: Birth and Death Almanac Ansbach scholars, writers, and artists . Augsburg 1796, p. 164 . In the ADB it was wrongly called "Herrieden".
  4. ↑ See [1]
  5. ^ Johann Jacob Cella: Johann Jacob Cella's JVD and Hochfürstl. Anspach. Justizrath and Kastner zu Ferrieden frank essays. Third ribbon. Anspach, Benedict Friedrich Haueisen […] bookstore. 1786, pp. 67-138.
personal data
SURNAME Cella, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1820
Place of death Ansbach