Christian Ferdinand Harpprecht

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Christian Ferdinand Harpprecht (born September 13, 1718 in Tübingen ; † December 25, 1758 ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Christian Ferdinand Harpprecht came from the Württemberg legal family Harpprecht. He was the great-grandson of Ferdinand Christoph Harpprecht , who in turn was great-grandson of the family ancestor Johannes Christoph Harpprecht . Christian himself was the son of Johannes Harpprecht , a Tübingen mayor . After studying at the University of Tübingen , he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1741 . Since the same year he also worked as a court lawyer . On January 18, 1746, he married a daughter of a law school teacher.

On November 13, 1747, the university appointed him associate professor of law. In Rothenburg he worked from 1748 in the service of the Count of Ulm . He was promoted to full professor of practical philosophy in the spring of 1749, but in December of the following year he again taught canon law and institutions at the law faculty, and he was also ducal councilor.

Harpprecht was appointed doctor of both rights on April 18, 1753, and not much later he was accepted by the German Society of Göttingen . In the winter of 1757, however, Harpprecht fell ill with a lung disease. His health had been in poor health all his life, now his health was looking worse because of work. After a cure in Teinach , the disease seemed to have improved, but he died on December 25, 1758 at the age of 41. His marriage was childless.

Harpprecht's education and research went well beyond the field of law, including philosophy , mathematics , philology , archeology , chemistry and the fine arts .

Works

  • De jure in rempublicam obsides deferentem (Rede, 1749)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Harpprecht, Christian Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1758