Karl Ferdinand Hommel
Karl Ferdinand Hommel (born January 6, 1722 in Leipzig ; † May 16, 1781 there ) was a German lawyer and criminal law reformer .
Life
Hommel was the son of the law professor and appellate judge Ferdinand August Hommel (1697-1765). After attending the Nikolaischule and studying law in Halle (Saale) and Leipzig, Hommel became an attorney at court. In 1750 he received an extraordinary professorship for constitutional law at the University of Leipzig. In 1752 he was appointed to a full professorship for feudal law there. From 1756 Hommel was an assessor of the Spruchkollegium, which he later took over as his father's successor. In 1763 he published the program "On the Reform of German Criminal Law", in which he promoted the application and enforcement of educational principles in criminal law. He spoke out against the death penalty, torture and expulsion from the country and called for the humanization of criminal law.
In 1770 he achieved the legal abolition of inquisition procedures and torture. Hommel also made particular contributions to the simplification of the court language .
Under his aegis, a building for the law faculty, the so-called Hommelbau , was erected in 1773 on Schloßgasse in Leipzig .
Hommel earned the first time in 1778 published new translation of Beccaria's magnum opus Dei delitti e delle pene (under the title The Lord Marquis of Beccaria immortal work of crimes and penalties ) nicknamed as German Beccaria ; the preface that precedes the translation, today so-called Hommel's preface, is of importance for criminal law to this day.
Works
- The Lord Marquis of Beccaria's immortal work of crimes and punishments , new edition Berlin 1966, Akademie Verlag [1]
literature
- Rolf Lieberwirth: Hommel, Karl Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 592 ( digitized version ).
- Albert Teichmann : Hommel, Karl Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 58 f.
- Friedrich August Weiz : The learned Saxony or directory of those in the Churfürstl. Saxon. and incorporated countries of contemporary writers and their writings. Verlag Carl Friederich Schneider, Leipzig, 1780, p. 120
- Karl von Zahn : Karl Ferdinand Hommel as a criminal law philosopher and teacher of criminal law. A contribution to the history of criminal investigation in Germany . Ernst Wiegandt, Leipzig 1911.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Ferdinand Hommel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Karl Ferdinand Hommel in the German Digital Library
- Bernd-Rüdiger Kern (University of Leipzig): Karl Ferdinand Hommel - On the 225th anniversary of his death on May 16, 2006
- Karl Ferdinand Hommel in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hommel, Karl Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and professor at the University of Leipzig |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1722 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1781 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |