Ämilius Ludwig Richter

Ämilius Ludwig Richter (born February 15, 1808 in Stolpen ; † May 8, 1864 in Berlin ) was a German teacher of canon law .

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Richter studied in Leipzig and settled there as a lawyer in 1831 . At the same time he completed his habilitation and gave lectures on canon law. Due to his first publications Corpus juris canonici (Leipzig 1833-39, 2 vol.) And contributions to the knowledge of the sources of canon law (das. 1834) he was appointed in 1835 as associate professor for canon law . In 1838 he became a full professor of canon law and civil litigation in Marburg . Appointed to Berlin in May 1846, he also worked as an "unskilled worker" (a kind of assistant ) in the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs . As a member of the Evangelical Upper Church Council (since 1850) of the Evangelical Regional Church in Prussia , then as a Secret Upper Government Council and lecturer in the Ministry since 1859, he played a decisive role in the church legislation in Prussia. Some of his students ( Richard Wilhelm Dove , Paul Hinschius , Emil Friedberg , Johann Friedrich von Schulte ) were the leading canon lawyers of the second half of the 19th century.

Richter wrote influential textbooks, including a. the epoch-making textbook of Catholic and Protestant canon law (Leipzig 1842; 8th edition, edited by Richard Wilhelm Dove and Wilhelm Kahl , 1877–86) and the history of the Protestant church constitution (Leipzig 1851). In 1836 he founded the Critical Yearbooks for German Law (later continued by Robert Schneider until 1848) . However, its editions are of greatest importance: In addition to the Corpus juris canonici already mentioned, above all the Protestant church ordinances of the 16th century (Weimar 1846, 2 vol.) And the Canones et decreta concilii Tridentini (that. 1853). Richter's contributions to Prussian canon law (Leipzig 1865) were published by Paul Hinschius.

Ämilius Ludwig Richter died in Berlin in 1864 at the age of 56 and was buried in the local cathedral cemetery I on Liesenstrasse . The grave has not been preserved.

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• King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And the constitution of the Evangelical Church . Berlin 1861

literature

• Peter Landau :  Richter, Aemilius Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 522 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Friedrich von Schulte :  Judge, Aemilius Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 340-343.
• Karl Schwarz:  RICHTER, Aemilius Ludwig. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 244-246.
• Judge, Ämilius Ludwig . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 13, p. 851.

Web links

• Ämilius Ludwig Richter in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of Ämilius Ludwig Richter's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1829 to winter semester 1838)
• Works by and about Ämilius Ludwig Richter  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 8.