Carl Wilhelm Robert

Carl Wilhelm Robert , nickname Carl (born March 21, 1740 in Kassel ; † April 8, 1803 ibid) was a German theologian, lawyer and active Freemason . He was the father of the lawyer Georg Friedrich Carl Robert .

Professional life path

Carl Wilhelm Robert was examined per ministerio in Marburg in 1761 and ordained pastor in Kassel in 1762, after which he was second preacher of the Reformed congregation in Marburg until 1767, from 1764 at the same time associate professor of theology at the University of Marburg from 1766 . In 1767 he took over the function of Ephorus of the Hessian Scholarship Institution . In 1768 he received his doctorate in theology . Between 1769 and 1778 he was dean of the theological faculty four times. His main teaching areas were dogmatics, pastoral theology and the exegesis of the New Testament . From 1771 he also worked as consistorial councilor and inspector of the reformed communities in the Upper Principality of Hesse.

In 1778 he resigned all theological offices. At the same time he became a member of the law faculty and full professor of practical philosophy. Until 1797 he was a member of the law and philosophy faculties. The degree of Dr. iur. he acquired in 1779. Between 1787 and 1794 he was dean of the Faculty of Law four times, and between 1769 and 1793 he was vice-rector of the university. - His teaching focus in law was canon law and the canonical criminal process , criminal law, institutions and pundits as well as the legal encyclopedia . In philosophy he dealt with ethics, natural law and education.

In addition to his university duties, from 1784 on he held the office of a velvet revision judge ; In 1785/86 he was a state parliament deputy. He was a member of the Political Science Institute founded by Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling at the University of Marburg and its first chairman in 1790; In 1801 he became its honorary member.

In 1797 he was appointed to Kassel as an appellate judge .

Freemasonry

Carl Wilhelm Robert was admitted to the League of Freemasons in Lyon in 1763 in the La Concorde Lodge . In the same year he was promoted to journeyman in the La Virtu lodge in Paris and made master. In Marburg, until Freemasonry was banned in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel in 1793, he was a member of the Lodge Zu den drey Löwen and the resulting Lodge Zum krönten Löwen , whose emphasis shifted to Kassel after 1772. Robert was a master of the chair for many years and had a major influence on the development of Freemasonry in Marburg and northern Hesse.

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• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis , arr. v. Franz Gundlach. Marburg: Elwert 1927 p. 32f.
• Stefan Redies: Freemasons, Knights Templar and Rosicrucians. On the history of the secret societies in Marburg in the 18th century. Marburg: Tectum 1998.

Individual proof

1. ↑ portrait [1]