Adolph Friedrich Dehns

Adolph Friedrich Dehns (born August 27, 1740 in Lübeck ; † March 18, 1806 there ) was a German lawyer and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

Adolph Friedrich Dehns was the son of the preacher at the Aegidienkirche Johann Balthasar Dehns. In the early 1760s he studied law at the University of Jena , where he became a Freemason in the lodge Zu den Drei Rosen in 1761 together with Carl Abraham Gütschow from Lübeck, who came from Mecklenburg . Dehns was a student at Harderwijk University in 1763 and was awarded a doctorate in law. On June 21, 1769 he became the third secretary of the council of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck as registrar, since the previous protonotary Christian David Evers had become syndicus of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck . He held this office until his death.

In 1789 he was one of the 25 founding members of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and in 1792 was its third director in an honorary capacity. As an active member of the society, he held a number of lectures on topics of general interest that have been preserved in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . From 1770 he organized the archive of the Lübeck Novgorod drivers.

Fonts

• De repudiatione haereditatis a debitore in fraudem creditorum facta, jure Lubecensi invalida , Harderwijk 1763

literature

• Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 , in: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 163
• Rüdiger Kurowski: Medical lectures in the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities 1789-1839: a patriotic society during the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995 ISBN 3-7950-0463-2 , p. 133

Web links

• Publications by and about Adolph Friedrich Dehns in VD 18 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Zaunstöck: Sozietätslandschaft and membership structures , Niemeyer, 1999, p. 205.
2. ^ Finding aid from the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.