Adam Friedrich von Glafey

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Adam Friedrich von Glafey (Illustration from Glafey's Historia Germaniae polemica , 1722)

Adam Friedrich Glafey , von Glafey since 1748 , (born July 14, 1692 in Reichenbach im Vogtland , † July 14, 1753 in Dresden ) was a German archivist , legal historian and philosopher . He was an opponent of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes and was close to the views of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Jean-Jacques Rousseau . In 1748 he was raised to the nobility.

Life

As the son of a silk merchant, Glafey grew up first in Reichenbach, then in Magdeburg , where he attended the cathedral school. After graduating from high school in Gotha , he began studying law at the University of Jena , where he received his master's degree in 1712. In 1718 he was at the University of Halle Dr. jur. PhD.

From 1717 Glafey worked as a private lecturer and later as an associate professor at the University of Leipzig . In addition, he was Hofmeister at von Tümpling in the trade fair city. In 1746 he acquired the upper manor (manor upper part) in Stötteritz near Leipzig. A street in Leipzig-Stötteritz is named after him.

In 1726 Glafey was appointed secret archives councilor in Dresden and moved to the royal seat of the Electorate of Saxony, where he worked as court and judicial councilor and director of the later state archive until his death . For his services to the Saxon state he was raised to the nobility in 1748.

Act

Glafey has published a total of 36 larger and smaller works in print. He wrote the most important works in the field of jurisprudence, especially in the field of legal philosophy and natural law. His work "The principles of civil legal scholarship" , Leipzig 1720, aroused such anger from the Saxon government that the book was destroyed on their orders. Further legal philosophical writings are «Vernunfft- und Völkerrecht» , first published in Frankfurt and Leipzig in 1723 and 1746 in the 3rd edition and «Complete History of the Law of Vernunfft» , Leipzig 1739. According to his philosophical point of view he was an opponent of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes and was close to the views of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Jean-Jacques Rousseau .

He also wrote numerous writings in the field of German history . His “Historia Germaniae polemica or Kern der Teutsche Reichsgeschichte” , 1722, was attacked so violently in the 77th part of the German Acta eruditorum that he published a special defensive text. The most widespread of his works was probably his "core of the story of the Chur- und Fürstl. House of Saxony » , which was written in its original form by Stiefen in Breslau and only revised by Glafey, although this book too initially attracted the indiscretion of the Saxon government because of the indiscretions it allegedly contained. The 4th edition of the work was published in 1753 and consists of 2 volumes, of which the second volume deals with the geography of the electorate. The numerous documents it contains give the book a certain value even today. Some of his works have remained unprinted but have been preserved in the manuscript, for example his «Kurzer Concept der Geschichte des Chur- und Fürstl. House of Saxony ” , 6 vols., For use by the Elector, in the Dresden library. In Thomas Fritsch's General historical lexicon , most of the articles on German special and provincial history have been edited by Glafey.

Glafey coat of arms on the grave site in Dresden-Plauen

coat of arms

Glafey's family coat of arms is a blue oblique left bar in a golden field, accompanied by two battle axes.

Works (selection)

  • De jure praededentiae foeminarum , Hall 1718 (dissertation)
  • Principles of Civil Legal Scholarship , 1720
  • Historia Germaniæ Polemica. Or the core of the history of the German Empire. In what the most important controversies, and things which are in salvation. Roman empires from Kayser to Kayser occurred ... Historically examined and discussed , 1722
  • Reason and International Law , 1723 and 1746
  • Instructions for a customary German writing style , 1730
  • Complete History of the Law of Reason , 1739
  • The core of the history of the High Chur and Princely House of Saxony , 1721

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Glafey, Adam Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1692
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach in Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1753
Place of death Dresden