Christian Leonhard Leucht

Christian Leonhard Leucht (born February 12, 1645 in Arnstadt ; † November 24, 1716 ) was a German lawyer, administrative officer and publicist .

He published his own treatises and extensive legal compilations under the pseudonyms Antonius Faber , Sigismundus Ferrarius , CL Thucelius , CL Lucius and Cassander Thucelius .

Life

Leucht studied at the University of Leipzig , University of Gießen and University of Jena , where he was awarded a Dr. jur. received his doctorate .

He worked as a lawyer in Dresden for a few years and then entered the service of the House of Reuss in Greiz as the "Count of Reussian Court Councilor" . In 1688 he was appointed "Count's Limburg Councilor" and worked as a legal advisor (consultant) to the knight canton of Altmühl of the Frankish imperial knight circle . In 1690 he became the imperial court palatinate count in Nuremberg , 1692 consultant at the Nuremberg lower court, then at the city marriage court and finally council consultant, ie legal advisor to the Nuremberg city council. In 1699 he retired from this post for health reasons, but was allowed to continue to use the title of Counselor.

Act

Title page of the New Müntz Tractate , 1692

Leucht published his own legal treatises, mostly under a pseudonym, but also as CL Lucius with the New Müntz Tract of Approved and Devalued Guldiners, an extensive work on numismatics of the 17th century.

Above all, however, he published extensive collections of files and documents, comparable to his younger contemporary Johann Christian Lünig . Under the pseudonym Antonius Faber , which was never exposed during his lifetime, Leucht founded the large-scale collection of files, Europäische Staats-Cantzley, as the editor of one of the longest-running German-language legal periodicals on constitutional law . From 1697 two volumes of the collection appeared annually. The work was continued after Leucht's death and only discontinued in 1760 with the 115th part, 1761–1782 as the Neue Europäische Staatscanzley in 55 parts, and 1783–1803 by Johann August Reuss as the Teutsche Staatskantzlei .

After Leucht had dedicated his collection of the Holy Roman Empire Reichs-Staats-Acta to the princes of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Schwarzburg-Arnstadt , they appointed him in 1715 - a year before his death - as a “ real secret council ”.

A catalog of Leucht's extensive private library was published posthumously in 1730.

Publications

• Austria SR Imperii ConJux. That is: of salvation. Rom. Reichs with the most highly praised Ducal Ertz House of Austria, lasting marriage, Which From the Most High Divine Providence, As The Most Serene and Most Powerful Prince and Lord, Mr. Josephus, To Hungary, Croatia, Slavonia, Servia, Bossnien and Bulgaria King, Ertz-Duke to Austria, [et] c. Augsburg 1690
• Crowns (crowns) for the adornment and protection of the Holy Roman Empire on which the heads of the most serene and powerful Roman cheese lady and Roman king Eleonorä and Josephi / So described in the most correct way according to all circumstances of the electoral and coronation solemnities who went before and after : But in particular what this time observed during the given visits / audiences had before Curalien / and what else / by virtue of the fundamental laws of salvation. Rom. Reichs Teutscher Nation to happen at the same actibus / besides the electoral capitulation also different very submissive congratulations with the original contrefaites of all Käyserl. Royal and Churfürstl. high persons / as well as those Reichs-Cleinodien and Numismatibus in Kupffer presented quite curiosly by Sigismund Ferrarium . Relocated by Leonhard Loschge, Nuremberg, 1690
• New Müntz treatise of approved and delavoured Guldiners, and other Müntz varieties ... With the latest ones published from 1676 to 1691 ... Müntz mandates ... and a specification of what in Nuremberg, Augsburg, Frankfurt and Leipzig before Guldiner Ordered to take payment in bills of exchange , 1691–1694, 2nd edition 1700
• Cassandri Thucelii Electa juris publici curiousa , 3 volumes, 1694/1696/1697
• Ant. Fabri European State-Cantzley , started 1697
• Diss. Jur. publ. de imperiorum et familiarum successionibus et mutationibus (3rd edition 1699)
• Tractatus academici de jurisdictione , 1700
• Consilia nec non responsa juris Altorfina , 2 volumes, 1702
• Codex Mevianus he decisiones , 3 volumes, 1703
• Consil. H. Linckii et al. antecessorum , 1708
• Continuatio Actorum publicorum Londorpii , volumes 13 and 14, 1708/1716
• The Holy Roman Empire Reichs-Staats-Acta, from the present XVIII. Seculo approaching each other , 5 parts, 1715–1722
• Tractatus novus de iure fenestrarum; vulgo of light and window law , 1717

literature

• Roderich von Stintzing :  Leucht, Christian Leonhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 475.

Web links

Wikisource: Christian Leonhard Leucht  - Sources and full texts

• Works by and about Christian Leonhard Leucht  in the German Digital Library