Andreas Wilhelm Cramer

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Andreas Wilhelm Cramer (* 1760 in Copenhagen ; † January 23, 1833 in Kiel ) was a German law teacher and librarian.

Life

Andreas Wilhelm Cramer was a son of the theologian Johannes Andreas Cramer and his wife Juliane Charlotte Radicke (born August 25, 1726 in Leipzig ). The family's ancestors came from Saxony and mostly worked as farmers and master craftsmen. His brother Carl Friedrich Cramer was a well-known theologian.

From 1774 Cramer attended the Princely School in Grimma , where he received comprehensive humanistic lessons. He completed a subsequent study of law at the University of Kiel and the University of Leipzig in 1785 at the University of Kiel with a doctorate in law. jur. Then he worked as a private lecturer. In 1786 he was appointed associate professor at Kiel University and in 1792 as a full professor of Roman law. From 1826 he worked as senior librarian for the Kiel University Library .

Cramer was married to Charlotte Zachariä (born March 24, 1764 in Bützow ), whose father Gotthilf Traugott Zachariae was a well-known theologian. The couple had five sons.

Work at Kiel University

During his courses on Roman law , in contrast to Friedrich Carl von Savigny , Cramer did not provide a systematic overview of the entire subject. Instead, as he himself said, following his example from Jacques Cujas, he treated individual passages of the Pandects . He also explained specific issues, which he did not bring together in one overall picture. He often spoke witty and astute about Roman law and writers such as Cicero , Suetonius or Juvenal . His students liked him because of his humorous and capricious style.

Cramer showed appreciation for the more recent historical legal doctrine. He maintained contacts with their representatives such as Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut , Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach , Pätz and Albrecht Schweppe , some of whom also taught in Kiel and with whom he got along well. Nevertheless, he followed the philological antiquarian theory embodied by Christian Gottlieb Haubold . He imparted a good basic knowledge of humanistics to his students, which was given special importance in the Schleswig-Holstein official examination.

Cramer's essential importance was not in the many legal writings he wrote. More important was his educational influence on the next generation of academics and his commitment to the interests of the university. He also had a major influence on the Kiel Faculty of Spruches. Cramer was a reluctant member of the Spruchkollegium, which he chaired in 1815. He later emphatically demanded careful filing and a similar discussion of the legal point. His judgments on university issues received a lot of attention. For a long period of time he was considered the most influential advisor to the curator when it came to questions about appointments in the law faculty.

Since he felt very close to Kiel and the duchies, Cramer turned down all offers from other universities. In 1822 he wrote a “house chronicle” as the only more comprehensive work in German. In it he described his attachment to the region from which he came.

From 1826 onwards, Cramer, who had extensive knowledge of literature, occupied himself almost exclusively with reorganizing the Kiel university library. He was able to increase the book holdings, move the library into more suitable rooms, and better catalog the holdings.

In 1810 Cramer was appointed budget councilor. The Kiel University appointed him Dr. phil. hc For his services he was made a knight of the Dannebrog and Dannebrogsmann.

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personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Andreas Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German law teacher and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1833
Place of death Kiel