Adam Martin (Councilor)

Adam Martin (* 25. November 1760 in Bonn ; † 11. May 1819 in Dusseldorf ) was as a lawyer associate professor of law at the Düsseldorf Academy of Law , Councilor in the Duchy of Berg and private scholar in his hometown.

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Martin came from the master builder family Friedrich Martin and his wife Catharina Zilleken. In the year it was established in 1776 and 1777, he studied philosophy at the Electoral Cologne Academy in Bonn and then law until 1780. Then he went to Göttingen for a year . For his law studies he received, among other things, a certificate written in Latin from Philipp Hedderich , who, like Martin, was to go to the Düsseldorf Law Academy from 1803. With his degree in Göttingen he wrote the Inaugural -Schrift De ASYLIS . ee 1782 Adam Martin began his career at the Düsseldorf electoral court as a juris internship . With this position he was certified as having “particular hard work” and “exceptional talents”. He was granted the qualification to work as a law firm advocate. He asked to be appointed Professor of Law to read the vacant lecture on feudal law. Although he has not yet published his dissertation, he has already written it. He also announced his application as a Kanzley lawyer , which is equivalent to a promotion. Two people have recently left the service, his successors have not yet been named. His professorship was recognized on October 26, but he was not promoted. On February 15 of the following year he was appointed répétiteur with the explanation, "The current professors [do] their duties in all matters ... [because] Henoumont is under an inquisition that brings him unhealthy and Dewies is very overburdened as a lawyer" be.

The criticism in his dissertation of his former professor Hedderich, who spread a heresy that also affected the Dukes of Berg, moved the "extremely conservative Vice Chancellor Georg Joseph von Knapp " to endorse Martin's renewed application on April 8th. In a public disputation, Martin wanted to defend 480 theses, which were written on 20 pages in Latin . He will have made this suggestion because he was in competition with Düsseldorf-based Josef Pampus in filling this position and had to fear that he would be preferred. But there was an oral exam, which was recorded on 81 pages. Only 15 pages were written on Pampus and on June 11 both were appointed to the Law Academy. As a result, Martin mainly read feudal and civil law until 1792, while Pampus received no specialist teaching restrictions. On March 31, 1787, he was sworn in as a lawyer, three years later, on March 23, 1790, he was naturalized by Elector Karl Theodor following a recommendation from the Jülich-Bergische Land estates .

On June 6, 1792 he was dismissed from Jülich-Bergisch services. Before that he had tried to get a position on the court council. Since this test was negative, he applied as kurkölnischer Court and Government. When Cologne was occupied by the French, the court moved to Vest Recklinghausen , where Martin followed. Its function became obsolete with secularization . His attempt to be reused by his old employer in Düsseldorf was refused by the Elector of Bavaria. It was not until 1812 that he found employment as a lawyer at the Court of Appeal in Düsseldorf. In the intervening years he worked as a private tutor and private scholar in Bonn. Over the years, his residential address Ratinger Straße 14 in Düsseldorf can be found. In 1819 he is recorded in the death register of St. Lambertus with the text "Adamus Martin, Hofrath und Advokat, spouse of Marie Anne Custoll, aged 59, omnibus sacramentis munitus".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard Köbler: Law Faculties Bonn , 2008
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Fischer: Law Academy.

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• Guntram Fischer : Düsseldorf and his legal academy , Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-7998-0024-7 , pp. 232-234