Alfred Nicolovius

Alfred Nicolovius

Alfred Georg Nicolovius (born November 13, 1806 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † March 22, 1890 in Bonn ) was a German legal scholar, university professor and author.

Live and act

Alfred Nicolovius was the third son and the third of five children of the Prussian ministerial official Georg Heinrich Ludwig Nicolovius and his wife Luise Maria Anna, nee. Schlosser, daughter of the writer Johann Georg Schlosser and niece of Goethe .

After the family moved to Berlin, he attended the Friedrichwerder grammar school . As a young man he spent a year with Goethe. He studied law at the universities of Berlin, Bonn and Göttingen , where he received his doctorate on March 30, 1831. jur. received his doctorate. In 1832 he completed his habilitation at the University of Königsberg and was appointed associate professor here in 1834. In 1835 he went to the University of Bonn as an associate professor and taught here canon law, constitutional and international law, feudal law and, particularly regularly until 1865, Prussian land law.

In 1866 he was given a two-year vacation and did not return to the university afterwards. He had far more satisfaction and success as a writer and literary historian than in his teaching.

The sculptor Otto Lessing (1846–1912) created a portrait bust of Alfred Nicolovius. The marble bust was in the collection of the Free German Hochstift - Goethemuseum - in Frankfurt am Main and is considered a war loss. Nicolovius belonged to the other family group of Lessing's mother, Ida Lessing geb. Heuser.

Fonts

• About Goethe. Literary and artistic news. 1. (only) part, Leipzig 1828 ( digitized version ).
• De potestate ecclesiastica coercitiva et criminali. Regensburg 1833.
• The episcopal dignity in Prussia's Evangelical Church. A contribution to the history of Protestant canon law. Königsberg 1834 ( digitized version ).
• (Ed.) Fürstenspiegel / written by Anna Maria, Margravine of Brandenburg and Duchess of Prussia for her son, Duke Albrecht Friedrich. Königsberg: Bon, 1835 ( digital copy of the copy in the Herzog August Library ).
• Memorandum to Georg Heinrich Ludwig Nicolovius with a portrait. Bonn 1841 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ). Reprint Bern / Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1973.
• Johann Georg Schlosser's life and literary work. Bonn 1844 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich Leopold Count zu Stolberg. Mainz / Kirchheim: Schott and Thielmann, 1846 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library ).
• Outline of the life of Ferdinand Delbrück (in the second collection of the results of academic research published by him). Bonn 1848.
• (Ed.) Schlöffels des Younger Pressproceß negotiates before the Superior Court in Berlin: completely from the files / communicated by himself Berlin: Reuter & Stargardt 1848 ( digitized ).
• The German heraldist Theodor Bernd . A picture of life. In: Kölnische Zeitung . 1854, No. 337 (December 5, 1854), supplement.

literature

• Johann Friedrich von Schulte:  Nicolovius, Alfred . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 616 f.
• Jörg Kuhn : Otto Lessing (1846–1912), sculptor, craftsman, painter. Life and work of an artist of late historicism, Phil. Diss., Kunsthistorisches Institut der FU Berlin, Berlin 1994