Carl Joseph Henoumont

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Carl Joseph Henoumont (* 1750 probably in Bissen ; † October 12, 1816 in Traar ) was a lawyer and professor of both rights at the Düsseldorf Law Academy . At 33, Henoumont was the longest teacher of any law professor at the Academy . Together with Johann Wilhelm Windscheid , who worked with him at the same time and for almost as long, he was able to bring great constancy to the body.

Life

Henoumont with his wife Maria Anna von Daniels and children. House Traar in the background . Painting by Joh. Wilh. Krafft , around 1835

An exact place of birth and Henoumont's birthday are not known. He probably came from an old Luxembourg family. In 1769 he began studying in Trier with Neller, a brother of Georg Franz Neller , who was a member of the college of professors in Düsseldorf until 1765. In the Heidelberg register of October 22, 1825, a Carl Henoumont , possibly a son of Henoumont, indicated his father's occupation as “landowner in Düsseldorf”. The first reliable data on Carl Joseph are only available from 1772, when he became a law student at the newly established law academy in Bonn under the reform-loving Joseph Broke . Probably had already studied at the law academy in Düsseldorf, since his thesis of October 9, 1773 was addressed to the "juris correpetitorem".

In his resignation from November 17, 1804 and in a supplementary letter two months later, Henoumont described his change at the law academy. He was then appointed as a law teacher at the Academy in Düsseldorf in November 1773, i.e. immediately after graduating from Bonn, with a salary of 100 Reichstalers (Rtl.). He wrote that until the French invasion of 1794 he had taught about 50 to 60 students in Roman law and about 60 to 80 in canon law. Other subjects such as "feudal and criminal law" were also taught by him. He replaced the ordinariate of Johannes Wilhelm Schiller , who took up the position of lawyer in Jülich with effect from November 16, 1773.

Fischer described him in his biography as a "phenomenon" because he had mastered both the professorship and his own lawyer for over 30 years. With the new legislation of 1803, according to which this dual position became inadmissible, he did not give up the less lucrative position of the teaching profession, but withdrew from his office because teaching was more important to him. He must have made a fortune by his own law firm, but he was also extremely popular at university. In 1787 it was said that he had twice as many students as all four other professors put together and that he also read free of charge for the poor. He is considered the spiritual father of numerous young Jülich-Bergisch lawyers. From 1796 Johann Wilhelm Neuss was one of his students . In the course of his life, Henoumont acquired various properties, including three adjoining houses in Mittelgasse and in 1812 also Haus Traar .

In 1785 an inquisition was opened against him, his now to 200 Rtl. increased annual donation will be 80 Rtl. shortened. The Academy supported Henoumont because he was the only one of the professors who “ read the productive Pandects ”. If it weren't for the proceedings against his “moral behavior”, by which “many parents will prevent many parents from entrusting their children with access”, the number of his listeners could be even larger than it already is. The allegations, however, were evidently baseless and the proceedings ended with no results. With the hint "We'll be graciously weighed you by the way" he received the previously reduced salaries again.

In the years 1800–1806 Henoumont dealt with an extensive case, which concerned the razing of the fortifications and the city expansion in the Carlstadt area . Obviously it was about restrictions on fishing law.

In 1804 he was attested by medical court counselor Reyland and Stabs-Chirurgus Nägele, “having weakened his chest through many years of persistent intellectual work”, which limited him in terms of the duration of the daily lectures. When his student and colleague Neuss also claimed his domain, the Pandects, Henoumont first tried to prevent him from doing so with a written complaint. Finally, on November 17th, he asked to be released from his professorship and to be admitted to the bar again, but this was refused by the electoral governor von Goltstein that same week. On January 4, 1805 Henoumont became the pension with 300 Rtl. pronounced annually. In late 1807 and again in mid-1808 he complained to Grand Duke Joachim Murat about outstanding pension payments. Count Nesselrode decreed that Henoumont's pension should be reduced to 200 Rtl. to be cut because the school fund is illiquid and Henoumont is extremely wealthy. Because of continued unwillingness to pay, Henoumont obtained an order for payment from the court councilor for the three-year arrears, but even this was rejected again by Interior Minister Nesselrode in 1812.

Carl Joseph Henoumont was married to Marie Anne Hubertena (von) Daniels and they had at least one daughter together, Huberte Angelica Marie Anne Henoumont. In May 1851, at the age of 21, this daughter married Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Beckers from Neuss, who was over 20 years her senior.

Like his birth, his death is not entirely clear either. After he was shot sitting at the window of his property in January, a fire destroyed part of this house in mid-June. The extent to which these circumstances, together with the state's refusal to recognize his benefits by means of a pension lock, have affected him emotionally can be assumed, but has never been investigated. The death note for his funeral is filled with euphemism . It says there: “With the year 1816 it also rose in his 66th year of life. It was his last, but also his hardest. In January he was shot through in a cruel way; soon afterwards the flames consumed a part of his finest property. The wise Christian endured all this meekly; and believed that after such a hard bed of pain he was beginning a new life. But the Lord of Life pleased to have him at 1 o'clock on October 12th. - His released soul becomes the prayer of pious Christians, and the HH. Sacrifice of the Mass highly recommended, so that you may rest in peace. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Guntram Fischer : Düsseldorf and his law academy. Triltsch publishing house.
  2. ^ Jean-Claude Loutsch: Armorial du pays de Luxembourg , Ministères des arts et sciences, 1974, p. 25
  3. ^ Max Braubach : The first Bonn university . Bouvier, Bonn 1966, p. 21
  4. ^ State Archives Düsseldorf, Sp A7 / 726
  5. ^ State Archives Düsseldorf, Sp A7 / 760
  6. ↑ Familysearch
personal data
SURNAME Henoumont, Carl Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: bite
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1816
Place of death Traar