Christian Reinhold Köstlin

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State examination in law in Tübingen around 1851/52, Köstlin second from the left

Christian Reinhold Köstlin (born January 29, 1813 in Tübingen ; † September 14, 1856 ibid) was a German legal scholar specializing in criminal law . In addition, he was considered a versatile and well-known poet lawyer .

Live and act

Christian Reinhold Köstlin, son of the theology professor and senior consistorial councilor Nathanael Friedrich von Köstlin and Heinrike Schnurrer (1788–1819), showed a keen interest in art as a high school student in Stuttgart, but studied law at the University of Tübingen from 1829 at the request of his father (friendship with the writers Berthold Auerbach , Hermann Kurz and Ludwig Seeger , participation in Ludwig Uhland's stylistics) as well as at the universities of Heidelberg (1831, studies with Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier , friendship with the poet Nikolaus Lenau ), Berlin (1832) and Vienna (1834) . At the same time, Köstlin was active as an artist: he made music, composed and wrote songs, dramas and novels . During his studies in 1829 he became a member of the Tübingen Comment Burschenschaft . In autumn 1834, Köstlin passed the first state examination in Tübingen with distinction. This was followed by years of legal clerkship at the court in Esslingen and at the criminal court in Stuttgart. In 1836 he passed the second state examination and then settled as a lawyer in Stuttgart. Here he took an active part in court and theater life, busy with compositions and dramatic experiments. His drama "The Doge's Sons" was performed on March 28, 1838 at the court theater. On the recommendation of his teacher, Karl Georg von Wächter , who had been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1839 and was no longer able to hold his chair at the University of Tübingen, Köstlin was appointed as a private lecturer as his deputy after his habilitation in the autumn of the same year. In the winter semester of 1839/40 he started lecturing in the field of criminal law. Two years later he was taken on as associate professor and in 1851 full professor. But as early as 1853 a serious throat disease (laryngeal tuberculosis) made this teaching activity impossible for him: he fell silent and finally died of the consequences of this disease on September 14, 1856. His grave is preserved in the Tübingen city cemetery . In 1904 the university town named a street after Reinhold Köstlin.

Köstlin was active as a writer throughout his entire time in Tübingen. In his main legal work, "New Revision of the Basic Concepts of Criminal Law" , he attempted to reformulate criminal law on the basis of Hegel's legal philosophy , which could not remain without contradiction.

Villa Köstlin around 1900

Married to the singer and song composer Josephine Lang , the salon of the "Villa Köstlin" (Rümelinstrasse 27), which Reinhold had built in front of the city in the late classicist style in 1842/43, quickly developed into a cultural center: Here, poets and musical readings met Soirees Berthold Auerbach, Immanuel Faißt , Karl Gerok , Hermann Kurz, Karl Mayer , Gustav Schwab , Friedrich Silcher , Ludwig Uhland and Ottilie Wildermuth - Emanuel Geibel came to visit in 1852 . The house and the former " Köstlinschen Garten " are under monument protection and have been used by the university administration since 1881. After a thorough restoration, the Center for Islamic Theology of the University of Tübingen was established there and officially opened on January 16, 2012.

Köstlin's grave in Tübingen

In a necrology from October 5, 1856 in the Schwäbisches Merkur and in the journal " Critical Survey of German Legislation and Jurisprudence ", Volume V., Munich, 1857, Professor Friedrich Walther honored Köstlin's services to criminal law in a special way.

family

Christian Reinhold Köstlin was married to Josephine Caroline Lang, daughter of the Munich horn virtuoso and violinist Theobald Lang (1783–1839) and the chamber singer Regina Hitzelberger (1786–1827). He had six children with her, including the musically gifted but early deceased son Felix Köstlin (1842–1868), godchild of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , the theology professor and church musician Heinrich Adolf Köstlin (1846–1907) and the daughter Maria (1849–1849–1907). 1925), who married Richard Albert Fellinger (1848–1903), director of Siemens & Halske in Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

  • The doctrine of murder and manslaughter , Stuttgart, 1838
  • Wilhelm the First, King of Wirtemberg, and the development of the Wirtemberg constitution before and under his government , Stuttgart, 1839, 2nd edition. 1841
  • The Perduellio under the Roman Kings , Tübingen, 1841
  • New revision of the basic concepts of criminal law , Tübingen, 1845
  • The turning point in German criminal proceedings in the nineteenth century , Tübingen 1849
  • The jury, presented for non-lawyers , 1. u. 2nd edition Tübingen 1849
  • The jury courts , Leipzig, 1851
  • System of German Criminal Law , Tübingen, 1855, vol. 1 (reprint Aalen 1978)
  • Treatises from criminal law , ed. by Theodor Geßler, Tübingen 1858 (posthumously; reprint Aalen 1978, Goldbach 1995)
  • An outline of the history of German criminal law , ed. by Theodor Geßler, Tübingen, 1859 (posthumously; reprinted by Goldbach 1996)
  • The story of the Spanish builder and the story of Leim and Mariandl , Stuttgart 1837
  • The Mathildenhöhle. Novella based on a true story , Stuttgart 1839
  • The children of the stranger. Novella , Bremen 1847
  • Real and ideal. Novella , Bremen 1847
  • The Good Friday Christians. Novella , Bremen 1848
  • Memories of a German house servant, as he wrote them down himself in Flachsenfingen in the year of salvation in 1848 , Tübingen 1850
  • Auerswald and Lichnowsky , Ein Zeitbild, according to the files of the appellate court in Frankfurt a. M. with permission of this h. Portrayed by C. Reinhold Köstlin, Dr. and professor of law. Verlag der H. Laupp'schen Buchhandlung, 1853 Tübingen ( transcription on Wikisource )
  • Poems , Stuttgart 1853

literature

  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Köstlin, Christian Reinhold (1813-1856). In: Ulrich Gaier, Monika Küble, Wolfgang Schürle: Schwabenspiegel. Literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1800–1950. Vol. 1.2., Biberach / Riß 2006, pp. 86, 210-211, 223 (catalog raisonné).
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Professor of criminal law and poet. Reinhold Köstlin died 150 years ago. In: Swabian homeland. 2007, issue 1, pp. 29-33.
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Professor of criminal law and poet. Christian Reinhold Köstlin was born yesterday 200 years ago. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt . Tübingen, January 30, 2013, p. 24.
  • Richard Fellinger, Peter Goeßler: On the history of an old Tübingen professors' house. In: Tübinger Blätter . Vol. 35 (1946/47), pp. 48-56.
  • Hermann Fischer: Reinhold Köstlin. A secular memory. Tubingen 1913.
  • Karl Klüpfel:  Köstlin, Christian Reinhold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 759-761.
  • Maria Köstlin (ed.): The book of the Köstlin family. Stuttgart 1931, pp. 15-17, 146-149.
  • Wolfgang Naucke:  Köstlin, Reinhold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 408 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Michael Ramb: Justification for punishment in the systems of the Hegelians. A legal philosophical investigation into the criminal theories of Julius Abegg, Christian Reinhold Köstlin, Albert Friedrich Berner and Hugo Hälschner. Berlin 2005.
  • Köstlin, Christian Reinhold . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 11, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p.  535 .

Web links

Wikisource: Reinhold Köstlin  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Christian Reinhold Köstlin  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 411-412.
personal data
SURNAME Köstlin, Christian Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and poet lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1856
Place of death Tübingen