Andreas Weiss (lawyer)

Andreas Weiss

Andreas Weiss , also Andreas Weis , Andreas Weiss and Andreas Weyssius (born October 24, 1713 in Basel ; † April 5, 1792 in Augst ) was a Swiss jurist.

Life

The son of the Grand Councilor and Head Clerk of the Basel Hospital lic. iur. Emanuel Weiss and his wife Anna Maria Faesch (* 1691), the daughter of Professor of Law at the University of Basel Sebastian Fäsch (* July 6, 1647 in Basel, † May 27, 1712 ibid.) And his wife Anna Maria Winkelblech came from from a respected Basel bourgeois family. After receiving a private education from his parents, Weiss first studied the philosophical sciences from 1724 at the University of Basel . Here he acquired the Baccalaurat on June 3, 1727 under Johann I Bernoulli with the subject ingrato homine terrans nihil pejus alere and on June 10, 1728 under Samuel Battier (1667–1744) with the treatise de lege Thebanorum, qua sicut Aristotle docet administratione Republicae arcebatur is, qui per decem annos a merctura facienda non abstinuisset the highest philosophical degree of a Magister. On March 16, 1734, he was appointed professor of ethics and natural and international law in Basel, which he assumed on May 20 with the introductory speech de usu librorum Novi Foederis in philosophia practica .

Weiss completed an educational trip in 1735 which took him through France, the Netherlands and Germany. After returning to Basel on June 6, 1737 , he received his doctorate in law with the treatise de usu aequitatis in intterpreatione legum (Basel 1737), he became second full librarian in 1741, rector of the Basel educational institution in 1745 and supervisor of the university library in 1746.

On June 15, 1747 he received an appointment as professor of law at the University of Leiden . He took over his chair of nature and international law on October 9, 1747 with the speech de praesidiis quibus instructum esse oportet Juris publici Germanici interpretem . In addition, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university in Leiden and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1753/54 . He resigned this office with the speech pro institutione Nobilium Academia .

On August 8, 1759 he became the teacher of Prince Wilhelm V in The Hague , received the title of honorary professor for public and private law in Leiden on November 8, 1760, and returned to Leiden from 1766 after the prince's accession to power. Released from his professorship in 1773, he returned to Basel. In the same year he became a member of the Grand Council and took over the supervision of the family-related art and rarities collection of the Faesch Museum. From 1775 to 1783 he was a member of the small Basel council and from 1778 to 1783 he was an assessor in the Basel city court. Then he retired to his estate in Augst near Basel, where he spent the last years of his life. He died unmarried.

Works

• Diss. Theses Logicae. Basel 1731
• Diss. Specimen Rhetoricum. Basel 1733
• Diss. Theses morales. Basel 1734
• Disputationes de usu aequitatis in interpretatione legum. Basel 1737
• Diss. De jure victoriae. Basel 1738,
• Diss. De bello hominis privati. Basel 1742
• De opere Pandectarum, et ejus interpretandi ratione, quaedam generaliora etc. quibus subjiciuntur capita nonulla Iurisprudentiae Ecclesiasticae. Basel 1746
• Oratio ad Principem Arausionensem et Nassoviensem, Wilhelmum V. Leiden 1766

literature

• Christoph Weidlich . Biographical news from the legal scholars currently living in Germany. Hemmerdeische Buchhandlung, Halle (Saale), 1785, 4th vol., P. 262, ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1815, ( online )
• Johann Werner Herzog: Athenae Rauricae. Carl August Serini, Basel, 1778, pp. 439–441 ( online )
• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching , Johann Heinrich Martin Ernesti: Historical literary handbook of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century. Verlag Schwickert, Leipzig, 1813, vol. 16, p. 106 ( online )
• Franz August Stocker : The family of the Fäsch in Basel. From the Fasch family book. In: From the Jura to the Black Forest. History, legend, country and people. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, 1889, p. 241 f.
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1877, vol. 20, p. 101 ( online , Dutch)
• CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugdono-Batavae MDLXXV-MCMXL. Brill Archive, Leiden, 1941, p. 173
• Theodor Bühler: Andreas Weiss. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2012 .

Web link

• Rector's Council biography Basel (accessed February 5, 2013)