Christian Steltzer (lawyer, 1758)

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Christian Steltzer

Christian Julius Ludwig Stelzer , also Stelzer , (* 5 February . Jul / 16th February  1758 greg. In Salzwedel , † September 26 jul. / 8. October  1831 greg. In Berlin ) was a German jurist , officials and university teachers .

Life

Christian Stelzer studied in Halle law and graduated with a doctorate from. He began his career as a judicial councilor and city secretary in Leimbach . From 1792 Steltzer was in Schraplau , in the department of the Magdeburg government, judicial commissioner and judicial officer in the county of Mansfeld .

In 1795 he resigned from his office and became a full professor of criminal law at the University of Halle , but returned to Schraplau in 1796 in his former position.

From 1805 he was with the title of Imperial Russian Councilor for 10 years Professor of Law at Moscow University . In Moscow he taught Roman law according to Johann August Hellfeld and Johann August Bach . He later used the system of pandect law presented by Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut as the basis for his teaching.

He sharply criticized the legal lessons at that time: “[The lecturer] was allowed to read individual articles of the Russian code to the students and nothing more; he chose the paragraphs he thought necessary and read them off without changing a word. "

From 1815 to mid-1817 he was Professor of Livonian Law in Dorpat . From 1816 on as rector of the Imperial University in Dorpat .

He moved to Berlin and was from 1819 to 1823 private lecturer for private and inheritance law and forensics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . Christian Steltzer became a royal Prussian judicial advisor and assistant judge at the criminal senate of the chamber court . In addition, he was a higher regional judge and secret secretary in the State Ministry for the revision of the laws.

In addition to his professional publications, he wrote several poems and prosaic essays. He was in correspondence with Karl Friedrich von Savigny , Heinrich Christian Boie and Friedrich Leopold von Kircheisen .

Christian Steltzer was married and died childless.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Franziska (Francisca) Montenegro. A tragedy in 5 acts , Johann Adam Creutz, 1781.
  • Principles of Embarrassing Law , two volumes, Keyser, 1790.
  • Critique of Prussia's new criminal law , Renger, 1795.
  • About the theuration of grain and administration of domain or chamber property as counteracting means , Free literary magazine for the common good of the peoples and countries, Volume 1, 1804.
  • Criticism of the Baron von Egger's draft of an embarrassing code for the duchies of Schleswig and Hollstein Altona , two volumes, Hommerich, 1811.
  • About the will , Rein, 1817.
  • Some recollections on the attribution of fatal injuries , Neues Archiv des Criminalrechts, Volume 4, Hemmerde and Schwetschke , 1821.

Co-authorship

  • together with Wilhelm von Stubenrauch:
    • Textbook of German criminal law , Hemmerde and Schwetschke, 1793.
    • Principles of the Prussian judicial process , two volumes, Ruff, 1796.

Memberships (selection)

  • 1797: Royal Academy of Useful Sciences in Erfurt
  • Imperial Russian Society of Naturalists in Moscow
  • Medical-surgical law firm in Moscow
  • Thuringian economic society in Berlin

Award (selection)

  • For his contribution to the rise in grain prices in 1804 through the Neue Leipziger Literaturzeitung.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexander Hu: Commemorative Calendar (II) - Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt. (No longer available online.) October 30, 2006, archived from the original on January 25, 2018 ; accessed on January 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Johann Friedrich von Recke: General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Steffenhagen, 1832 ( google.de [accessed on January 23, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b Martin Avenarius: Foreign Traditions of Roman Law: Influence, Perception and Arguments of the "rimskoe pravo" in the Russian Empire of the 19th century . Wallstein Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-2659-0 ( google.de [accessed on January 23, 2018]).
  4. ↑ http://www.utlib.ee/ekollekt/eeva/index.php?lang=de&do=autor&aid=204
  5. ^ Biography, Christian Julius Ludwig Steltzer. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  6. ^ Steltzer, Christian Julius Ludwig (1758–1831): Kalliope-Verbund search. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  7. ↑ New Leipzig literary newspaper . 1805 ( google.de [accessed on January 23, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Steltzer, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steltzer, Christian Julius Ludwig; Steltzer, Christian Julius Ludwig von; Steltzer, CJL; Stelzer, Christian J .; Stelzer, Christian Julius Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, poet, civil servant, university professor and rector of the University of Dorpat (1816)
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1831
Place of death Berlin