Carl Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg

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Carl Ludwig Arndts, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1861

Carl Ludwig Arndts, Knight of Arnesberg (ennobled since 1870/71, born August 19, 1803 in Arnsberg , † March 1, 1878 in Vienna ) was a lawyer, professor and politician (member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Austrian Manor House ).

biography

Family and education

Arndts was born in 1803 as the ninth of ten children into an educated middle class family with a long legal tradition, which had been based in Arnsberg, the capital of the Duchy of Westphalia , since the beginning of the 18th century . In addition to his position as electoral court advisor, Arndt's grandfather Johann Wilhelm (1710–1771) was the postman of the Thurn und Taxische postal company and the founder of the first Arnsberger Zeitung (1766). Friedrich Arndt's father was at the time when the duchy belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , the director of the court court (later the higher regional court or regional court) and a member of the legislative commission in the capital Darmstadt. Arndts received his school education up to the Abitur in 1820 at the Laurentianum grammar school in his hometown.

Arndts studied law primarily at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin and heard from Justin von Linde and Karl Theodor Welcker , among others . In 1820 in Bonn, Arndts and other students from Westphalia took an active part in a Germania fraternity despite the “ demagogue persecution ” . After moving to Heidelberg, he heard from Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut , who was having a scientific dispute with Friedrich Carl von Savigny at the time . This was apparently the trigger for a move to the Reform University Berlin, where von Savigny taught. Welcker proposed to Arndts as early as 1822 when he visited Arnsberg to become a lecturer. At least since his time in Berlin, the profession of university lecturer was Arndts' goal. Immediately after his military service with the guardsmen in Berlin, Arndts submitted his dissertation in Berlin in 1825 and his habilitation in Bonn in 1826. In 1830 Arndts married his cousin, the writer Bertha Arndts, and took her on a trip to Rome from 1834–35. After her death in 1859 he was with the writer Maria Arndts geb. Vespermann married.

Scientific and political work

Only after a long waiting period did he receive an extraordinary professorship for Roman law in Bonn in 1836 . The reason for this delay, however, is not to be found in his academic work (Arndts already published a number of important papers at this time) nor in the quality as a lecturer. It was probably his “freedom” attitude that hindered his university career.

In 1838 he was appointed full professor in Breslau and almost simultaneously in Munich. He chose the Munich position as professor of civil law . In addition to his lectures, Arndts published numerous articles and was the author of a textbook.

In 1843 he published his legal encyclopedia and methodology , which he dedicated to his Sauerland compatriot Johann Suibert Seibertz . As a member of the Bavarian Legislative Commission, he was involved in drafting a civil code and a code of civil procedure.

Before the drafts could have any practical significance, the commission was dissolved in 1847. However, in 1857 the draft for a civil code for Bavaria was essentially based on Arndts' preparatory work, and this also played a considerable role in the draft of a German civil code.

Together with Johann Caspar Bluntschli , he published the critical survey of German legislation and jurisprudence from 1853 .

Both his freedom of mind and his legal expertise predestined Arndts as a candidate for the Frankfurt National Assembly in the spring of 1848. As a member of the Greater German parliamentary group, he represented the constituency of Straubing from May 20, 1848 to May 19, 1849 in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, where he was a member of the casino group and the Paris court . His main interests within Parliament were legal issues. In the course of the negotiations he joined the Ultramontane Catholic Association .

After leaving parliament on May 19, 1849, Arndts continued teaching. In the early 1850s he published his textbook Der Pandekten , which had about 16 new editions over time. During this time, Arndts was also rector of Munich University and a member of the Munich casual society before he was offered a position in Vienna in 1855. Although King Max II personally campaigned to keep Arndts in Munich, he went to Austria. He was a professor in Vienna for 18 years. While he was still in the liberal camp in Vormärz, he represented increasingly Catholic and conservative views in marriage and school legislation, especially since his appointment as a lifelong member of the manor house (1867). However, he made a contribution to the reform of legal training in Austria. In gratitude, Emperor Franz Joseph raised him to the nobility in 1870 and made him Knight of Arnesberg . In 1872 he was appointed a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and a councilor. After his retirement in 1874, he retired to his estates on Lake Ammersee and died in Vienna in 1878.

Fonts

  • Textbook of the Pandects . Munich, 1852; Reprinted by Goldbach, 1997.
  • Legal encyclopedia and methodology . 11th edition after the author's death / obtained from Bernhard Erwin Grueber. Stuttgart, 1908.
  • Collected civilistic writings . Stuttgart, 1873; Reprinted by Goldbach, 1999.
  • The Doctrine of the Legacies , 3 volumes. Erlangen, 1869–1878.
  • Collected civilistic writings , 3 volumes. Stuttgart, 1873-1874.
  • Co-author of Critical Review of German Legislation and Jurisprudence , 6 volumes. Munich, 1853-1858.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 26.
  2. ↑ Informal Society: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Informal Society Munich 1837-1987 , University printing and publishing house Dr. C. Wolf and Son KG, Munich 1987, 159 pages

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personal data
SURNAME Arndts von Arnesberg, Carl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arndts von Arnesberg, Carl Ludwig Ritter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian legal scholar and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1878
Place of death Vienna