Benjamin Christoph von Graßhof

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Benjamin Christoph von Graßhof (born February 5, 1702 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † July 31, 1778 in Ballenstedt ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Benjamin Christoph von Graßhof lost his father Heinrich Wilhelm Graßhof when he was 15 years old. After completing his legal studies at the University of Leipzig and returning to Mühlhausen, he was initially appointed to the council and soon afterwards to the city counsel. Important matters took him to Vienna three times in 1731, 1733 and 1755 . During this period, in which he worked at the Reichshofrat for the benefit of his fellow citizens, Prince Heinrich von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen appointed him Hofrat and later a secret councilor. Therefore he sometimes had to go to the court of this regent to take care of the business assigned to him. In 1770 the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg appointed him to his real secret council. He followed this call and initially lived in Bernburg and then in Ballenstedt, where he died on July 31, 1778 at the age of 76. He left a reputation as a thorough legal scholar.

Graßhof tried to get to know the history and legal situation of his hometown exactly. He wrote a treatise on the origins and antiquities of the city of Mühlhausen, which was important for his contemporaries but later became meaningless ( Commentatio de originibus atque antiquitatibus SRJ liberae civitatis Muhlhusae Thuringorum, monumentis adhuc ineditis illustrata , 1749). He also had a large share in the edition of the Corpus juris germanici medii aevi organized by the Reichshofrat, Baron von Senckenberg . He is also said to be the author of various writings, some of which came out independently without his name, and some are contained in other compilations.

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personal data
SURNAME Graßhof, Benjamin Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1778
Place of death Ballenstedt