August Wilhelm Heffter

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August Wilhelm Heffter (born April 30, 1796 in Schweinitz , Electorate of Saxony , † January 5, 1880 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Born as the son of General Admission Commissioner Johann Christian Heffter (1746–1830), he enjoyed his first lessons from private tutors. In May 1808 he attended the Saxon Princely School St. Augustin in Grimma and went to study theology at the University of Wittenberg , where he spent the summer semester of 1813 together with his brother Moritz Wilhelm Heffter (1792-1873), later professor at the Knight Academy Brandenburg an der Havel , matriculated. During the Wars of Liberation , however, the city became a target of military conflict. Therefore, Heffter left the city and moved to the University of Leipzig in the fall of 1813 to continue studying law.

In the winter of 1815 he moved to the University of Berlin , where he got to know other aspects of law. There he passed his first legal exam in the Berlin Superior Court on March 28, 1816, and was signed up as an auscultator in Jüterbog on April 18 . After 1817 his military service, he insisted that in November of the same year his second legal exam clerkship . He returned to Berlin and initially took on various activities until he had passed the third legal exam on April 22, 1820.

He then went to the Cologne Court of Appeal as an assessor and was then counsel at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . His writing Athenean Judicial Constitution (Cologne 1822) prompted his appointment to the University of Bonn in 1823 . In 1828/29 he was the rector of the university. From there he went to Halle (Saale) as Professor of Law in 1830 , and to the University of Berlin in 1833, where he was also full professor of the Spruchkollegium, later Privy High Tribunal Councilor (1846–1868), Rector (1836/37), Crown Syndic and member of the Prussian Mansion was.

August Wilhelm Heffter died in Berlin in 1880 at the age of 83 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The neoclassical wall grave has not been preserved, but its appearance was reconstructed on site in 2009 in the form of a facade painting.

Selection of works

  • Institutions of the Roman and German civil process (Bonn 1825, 2nd ed. 1843);
  • Contributions to German constitutional and princely law (Berlin 1829);
  • Textbook of common German criminal law (Halle 1833);
  • The inheritance rights of coat children (Berlin 1836);
  • The current border dispute between state and church (1839) (in view of the confusion in Cologne )
  • European international law of the present (Berlin 1844 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ); 7th edition by Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken , 1881; also in French. 4th edition, 1883);
  • Civil litigation in the area of ​​general land law for the Prussian states (Berlin 1856);
  • The special rights of the sovereign and mediatized houses of Germany (Berlin 1871).

He published the institutions of Gaius (Bonn 1830) and participated in the editing of the New Archives of Criminal Law .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Alter St. Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin. A cemetery guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-936242-16-4 , p. 11. "Grave formerly Heffter" . On: http://www.efeu-ev.de/ (accessed on February 25, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Heffter, August Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hefter, August Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION jurist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinitz , Electorate of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1880
Place of death Berlin