Benedict Schmidt

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Benedict Schmidt (born March 21, 1726 in Forchheim , † October 3, 1778 in Ingolstadt ) was a German lawyer during the Enlightenment.

After studying law in Bamberg and Altdorf , he obtained the Licentiat iuris in 1749. In 1750 he became a government advocate and in 1754 he received an extraordinary professorship in Bamberg. In 1755 he was appointed court councilor. The full professorship followed in 1757, at the same time he became an assessor in the law faculty. 1759 - in the year the Bavarian Academy of Sciences was founded, he was elected a foreign member. In 1761 the doctorate to Dr. iuris and shortly afterwards he received a professorship in Ingolstadt . In 1765 he became court advisor and assessor at the imperial free court in Hirschberg , and in 1766 rector of the University of Ingolstadt.

He got into an argument with his colleague Ickstatt and later with Sutor . Schmidt became known in particular with his work Historically, Reichs-Grund-Gesäzliche Prüffung and Proof of the imperial-highest church authority beyond the Protestant Papal State, which was indented under secularism, far beyond Bavaria.

Works

  • Principia iuris publici germ. , Nuremberg 1756, Ingolstadt a. Augsburg 1768, Munich 1776;
  • Instruction principles for jurist. out of court and judicially common Kurbaierischen and Reichspraxis , Ingolstadt 1765.

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Benedict
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Benedictus; Schmidt, Benedikt; Schmidt, Benedict S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Forchheim
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1778
Place of death Ingolstadt