Carl Adolf Schmidt (lawyer)

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Carl Adolf Schmidt , also Karl Adolf Schmidt, Karl Adolph Schmidt and Adolph Schmidt (born November 4, 1815 in Allstedt , † October 24, 1903 in Baden-Baden ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The son of the later superintendent and church councilor Georg Friedrich August Schmidt († 1858) was a playmate of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's grandsons in his early youth . As a young man, Carl Adolf Schmidt saw the poet prince on his death bed. Schmidt studied law at the University of Jena . Here he won first prize for solving a prize question with the treatise De successione fisci in bona vacantia ex jure romano (Jena 1836).

In 1839 he graduated with the essay M. Tullii Ciceronis pro Q. Roscio comoedo oratio illustrata (Jena, 1839) to the doctor of the rights and habilitated in the following year at Jena University as a lecturer in Roman law. In 1843 he became an associate professor there , went to the University of Greifswald as a full professor of Roman law in 1849 and moved to the University of Freiburg in the same function in 1850 . He represented the latter from 1855 to 1865 in the first chamber of Baden and gained an excellent reputation in the course of his activities. After moving to the University of Bonn in the spring of 1869 , he went to the University of Leipzig in the autumn of the same year , where he worked for 33 years as a professor of Roman law .

Schmidt took part in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1872/73, 1880/81 and 1887/88 , and Rector of the Alma Mater in 1873/74 . The privy councilor of Saxony was an enthusiastic member of the National Liberal Party . In addition, on the occasion of his fifty-year doctorate, he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy on February 6, 1889 and became an honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig on December 13, 1895 . On October 1, 1901, he retired and moved to Karlsruhe ; he was particularly connected to this city through his second marriage. Due to illness, he went to Baden-Baden in 1903 , where he died. His scientific work was in many ways fundamental and received a lot of attention in the years that followed.

Fonts

  • Civilistic Treatises. Vol. I, Jena 1841
  • The Romans' interdict procedure. In historical development. Leipzig 1853
  • The formal right of emergency heirs. Leipzig 1862
  • The compulsory share right of the patronus and the parcus manumissor. Heidelberg 1868
  • Critical remarks on T. Livii histor. lib. XLI, chap. 8, 9 D. Ulpiani fragm. tit. I § ​​1; D. de inspiciecundo ventre. Freiburg 1856
  • Commentatio de originibus legis actionum. Freiburg 1857 (invitation program to the 4th secular celebration of the university)
  • The personality of the slave under Roman law. 1st department (program for the celebration of the Grand Duke's birth festival) Freiburg 1868
  • The house child in Mancipio. A legal history treatise. Leipzig 1879
  • About the legis actio per judicis postulatiomm. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation II, 145–164
  • On the doctrine of international legal relations of the Romans. In: Zeitschr. d. Savigny Foundation IX, 122–143
  • About the superficies. In: Zeitschr. d. Savigny Foundation XI, 121–164
  • The beginnings of the bonorum possessio. In: Zeitschr. d. Savigny Foundation XVII, 324–328

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