Adolph Michaelis

Adolph Michaelis in the Tübingen Professorengalerie (1856)

Legal state examination in Tübingen around 1851/52, Michaelis third from the left

Adolph Michaelis (born December 25, 1797 in Hameln , † January 20, 1863 in Tübingen ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Michaelis came from a Jewish family in Hameln , where his father worked as a merchant. From 1812 he studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and from the winter semester 1814/15 at the Georg August University in Göttingen . There he became active in the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . Adolf von Wangenheim from Hameln had already entered the previous summer . Two other cousins from the von Wangenheim family from Gotha came to Göttingen on October 25, 1814 and also became Hanoverians. Probably because of an investigation by the Göttingen university authorities against the prohibited student associations, he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in October 1816 . On November 9th, 1817 he renewed his matriculation in Göttingen "to do a doctorate."

His uncle Salomo Michaelis was the first Germanist at the University of Tübingen to hold the chair for German language and German-language literature since 1810 . Due to the connections to his friend and sponsor Karl August von Wangenheim , the curator of the University of Tübingen, Adolph Michaelis was appointed as a private lecturer in Tübingen in 1818 . Associate professor since 1820 , from 1822 until his death in 1863 he was professor of German law and canon law .

In 1824 the affair of his sister Julie Michaelis, who was living with him, with the five years younger theology student at the Tübingen monastery and poet Wilhelm Waiblinger became known, which caused a sensation in Tübingen and after the arson of a pupil from Hameln who also lived with him became the subject of a spectacular trial. Waiblinger was expelled from the monastery in 1826. The pupil and mayor's son from Hameln sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Michaelis 1862, a mental illness made a longer stay in the Winnenden institution necessary, but this did not relieve him of his depression. He drowned after falling from the Neckar Bridge and was buried in the Tübingen city cemetery.

Both Michaelis, each in his own way, paved the way for Jewish assimilation in German academic life as university lecturers .

Awards

Knight of the Belgian Order of Leopold

Fonts

Draft of a representation of the public law of the German Federation and the German federal states. Tubingen 1820

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

Historical and diplomatic presentation of the foundation of the Kingdom of Belgium under international law , Cotta, Stuttgart 1836 (edited translation of the work by Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, which was published in French )

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

Vote on the Countess Bentinck's succession dispute , 3 volumes, Laupp, Tübingen 1841–1845

Digitized volume 1, copy from the Bavarian State Library

Digitized volume 2, copy from the Bavarian State Library

Digitized from volume 3 (title here: About the current situation of Bentinck's succession dispute. ), Copy from the Bavarian State Library

The constitutional situation of the princes and counts Lords of Schönburg , Ferber, Gießen 1861

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

literature

Max Miller : Salomo Michaelis, colleague and friend of the Frrn. v. Wangenheim , in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 3, 1939, pp. 158–211 (Critical note: Contains facts from the south-west German archives, presented and commented on in the anti-Semitic diction of the National Socialist period of publication)

Hans-Joachim Lang : Salomo and Adolph Michaelis: the baptismal certificate as an entrance ticket for a university career , in: Tubingensia , Ostfildern 2008, pp. [445>] - 458

Bernhard Gelderblom : The Jews of Hameln: from their beginnings in the 13th century to their extermination by the Nazi regime, Mitzkat, Holzminden 2011 ISBN 978-3-940751-39-3 , pp. 58–59 ( The university lecturer and convert Adolph Michaelis )

Web links

Commons : Adolph Michaelis - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Adolph Michaelis - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

↑ The date of birth is unclear, see the Tübingen matriculation and the explanations in Max Miller (lit.)
↑ Heinrich Spanuth: History of the City of Hameln from the Renaissance to the Modern Era , Hameln 1955, Vol. II, p. 329, 429: The Jewish Michaelis family, to which the Tübingen lawyer Professor Adolf Michaelis also belongs, devoted itself over three generations. the tobacco shop: Ezekiel Salomon Michaelis was followed by Karl Michaelis, who moved from the modest property on Kleine Strasse to Osterstrasse in 1872, and finally Julius Michaelis, the last head of the Israeli community, who finally switched to wholesale business under changed circumstances.
^ Albert Bürk / Wilhelm Wille: Die Matrikel der Universität Tübingen , Vol. 3 (1710-1817), Tübingen 1953, p. 472, No. 40.850: November 26th, 1812, Adolph Michaelis von Hameln in Westphalen, born December 31st. 1796, stud. iur., P (ater): Eph., in Hameln merchant, pays 6 fl 15 times
^ Enrollment in Göttingen on October 22, 1814 ex ac. Tübingen
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42, 178
^ Rudolf Meyer-Brons: Directory of Members of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen , Göttingen 1927, No. 169; proven in the studbook of the Hanoverian August Friedrich Wilhelm Görtz , after excerpts from Wilhelm Fabricius : "Adolf (sic!) Michaelis, iur. student from Hameln in the Kingdom of Hanover, Göttingen on March 17th, 1816 - with circle, motto, as well as" H . s. P. "and on both sides set" R. "and" B. "Exerpt in the Institute for University Studies .
↑ including Ernst von Wangenheim ; see Kösener corps lists 1960, 42, 180 and 181.
↑ Type-written excerpt from the files of the Göttingen University Archives, Secretariat files Sign. 48 C. 22 - forbidden connections: Investigation against the Landsmannschaften [sic!] In Göttingen from March 9, 1816 ff. Up to the punishment of the leading members, with lists of names of those identified Göttinger Landsmannschafter - and the memo that such had tried to hide under the cover name Corps . The attached Hanoverian list contains 39 names, under No. 14: Michaelis. ( SUB Göttingen / Archives of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen)
^ Enrollment in Heidelberg on October 25, 1816 under lfde. No. 163. See Gustav Toepke (ed.): The register of the University of Heidelberg (5th part): From 1807 - 1846 , Heidelberg, 1904, p. 124
↑ Georg May : Professorships to be filled with Catholics at the University of Tübingen from 1817 to 1945 . John Benjamin Publishing, 1975, p. 160, footnote 13 with reference to Max Miller: Salomo Michaelis, colleague and friend of Frhrn. v. Wangenheim (1939), p. 194
↑ History of the Faculty of Law (accessed on February 25, 2013)
^ Bernhard Gelderblom: The Jews of Hameln: from their beginnings in the 13th century to their destruction by the Nazi regime. Mitzkat, Holzminden 2011, pp. 58–59.

personal data
SURNAME	Michaelis, Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Michaelis, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1863
Place of death	Tübingen

[1] The date of birth is unclear, see the Tübingen matriculation and the explanations in Max Miller (lit.)

[2] Heinrich Spanuth: History of the City of Hameln from the Renaissance to the Modern Era , Hameln 1955, Vol. II, p. 329, 429: The Jewish Michaelis family, to which the Tübingen lawyer Professor Adolf Michaelis also belongs, devoted itself over three generations. the tobacco shop: Ezekiel Salomon Michaelis was followed by Karl Michaelis, who moved from the modest property on Kleine Strasse to Osterstrasse in 1872, and finally Julius Michaelis, the last head of the Israeli community, who finally switched to wholesale business under changed circumstances.

[3] Albert Bürk / Wilhelm Wille: Die Matrikel der Universität Tübingen , Vol. 3 (1710-1817), Tübingen 1953, p. 472, No. 40.850: November 26th, 1812, Adolph Michaelis von Hameln in Westphalen, born December 31st. 1796, stud. iur., P (ater): Eph., in Hameln merchant, pays 6 fl 15 times

[4] Enrollment in Göttingen on October 22, 1814 ex ac. Tübingen

[5] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42, 178

[6] Rudolf Meyer-Brons: Directory of Members of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen , Göttingen 1927, No. 169; proven in the studbook of the Hanoverian August Friedrich Wilhelm Görtz , after excerpts from Wilhelm Fabricius : "Adolf (sic!) Michaelis, iur. student from Hameln in the Kingdom of Hanover, Göttingen on March 17th, 1816 - with circle, motto, as well as" H . s. P. "and on both sides set" R. "and" B. "Exerpt in the Institute for University Studies .

[7] uding Ernst von Wangenheim ; see Kösener corps lists 1960, 42, 180 and 181.

[8] Type-written excerpt from the files of the Göttingen University Archives, Secretariat files Sign. 48 C. 22 - forbidden connections: Investigation against the Landsmannschaften [sic!] In Göttingen from March 9, 1816 ff. Up to the punishment of the leading members, with lists of names of those identified Göttinger Landsmannschafter - and the memo that such had tried to hide under the cover name Corps . The attached Hanoverian list contains 39 names, under No. 14: Michaelis. ( SUB Göttingen / Archives of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen)

[9] Enrollment in Heidelberg on October 25, 1816 under lfde. No. 163. See Gustav Toepke (ed.): The register of the University of Heidelberg (5th part): From 1807 - 1846 , Heidelberg, 1904, p. 124

[10] Georg May : Professorships to be filled with Catholics at the University of Tübingen from 1817 to 1945 . John Benjamin Publishing, 1975, p. 160, footnote 13 with reference to Max Miller: Salomo Michaelis, colleague and friend of Frhrn. v. Wangenheim (1939), p. 194

[11] History of the Faculty of Law (accessed on February 25, 2013)

[12] Bernhard Gelderblom: The Jews of Hameln: from their beginnings in the 13th century to their destruction by the Nazi regime. Mitzkat, Holzminden 2011, pp. 58–59.