Carl Friedrich Gerstlacher
Carl Friedrich Gerstlacher (born May 12, 1732 in Böblingen ; † August 15, 1795 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer, journalist and university professor.
Life
After studying at the University of Tübingen (from 1747) Gerstlacher was lawyer and attorney in Stuttgart, from 1761 to 1767 (associate) professor in Tübingen and in 1763/64 also a Württemberg tutelary councilor and in 1765 a member of the newly established police deputation with the rank of court counselor . In 1767 he joined Baden as a court judge. In 1789 he was accepted into the College of the Privy Council. In 1791 he became a real Privy Councilor and member of the Audit Office. He also gained notoriety because he represented the interests of his father, the physician Johann Andreas Antonius Gerstlacher (1700–1775), in several publications in an inheritance dispute.
The Friedrich-Gerstlacher-Strasse in Böblingen, the town of his birth, commemorates Carl Friedrich Gerstlacher.
Of his children, Christian Friedrich Gerstlacher (1778–1850) became Prime Minister of Baden in Paris. In the Princeton University Library, Livingston Collection, are "Letters to Mr. Gerstlacher". The estate of the son Carl August Gerstlacher (1781–1848) is in the Baden General State Archives in Karlsruhe .
Major works
- Collection of all individually issued ducal Württemberg laws and other norms , Thl. I-II, 1759-66.
- Collection of all institutions and ordinances relating to Baden-Durlach, the church and school system, life and health of people , Vol. 1–3, 1773–74.
- Corpus iuris Germanici publici et privati (4 vols., Schmieder, 1783–89, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe)
- Handbook of the German Imperial Laws based on the most genuine text possible in systematic order (11 parts in 10 volumes, 1786–94, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Karlsruhe)
literature
- Hermann Müller (librarian): Gerstlacher, Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 67.
- Johann Georg Meusel , Lexicon of German writers who died between 1750 and 1800 , IV, 136
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Friedrich Gerstlacher in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerstlacher, Carl Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, journalist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boeblingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1795 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |