Christian Weidling

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Christian Weidling (born August 14, 1660 in Weißenfels ; † 1731 Ottendorf near Hamburg) was a lawyer and, in the meantime, a member of the Chamber and Councilor.

Career

Christian Weidling was born the son of a councilor from Weissenfels and studied at the University of Leipzig theology and philosophy u. a. with Christian Thomasius . Since he could not find a job as a pastor, he began to study law and received his doctorate in 1689 at the University of Jena . After a job at the Illustre Augusteum grammar school in Weißenfels, he became a full professor of feudal law in Leipzig in 1719. In 1701 he founded the journal Curieuser of political, historical, geographical, heraldic and genealogical discourses on the weekly Nouvellen or Neue Historie , which only existed for one year.

Before continuing to teach at Kiel University , he went to the Anhalt court as a councilor, where he only stayed for a few years. A serious illness forced him to move to his son in Hamburg, where he finally died in 1731.

The intellectual upheaval at the beginning of the Enlightenment becomes clear in his writings. In some respects he followed Christian Thomasius and openly took a position against his opponent Valentin Alberti in Leipzig.

Christian Weidling was married twice. In 1692 he married Sofie Magdalene Thomasius' daughter of Jakob Thomasius , who died in 1695. So he married Susanne Dorothea daughter of the Leipzig councilor Friedrich Conrad . There are two children from the first marriage.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio Philologica. (Leipzig 1684);
  • The learned church speaker (Leipzig 1700);
  • Philosophy Juridica (Leipzig 1701);
  • The oratorical court master (Leipzig 1698 and 1704);
  • The Funeral Orator (Leipzig 1698 and 1706);
  • The oratorical treasury (Leipzig 1700 and 1703);
  • Emblematic treasury (Leipzig 1702);
  • Curious and thorough moralite (Leipzig 1701);
  • Ius publicum imperii Romano-Germanici hodierni (Leipzig 1706);
  • Introduction to constitutional law (Leipzig 1706);
  • Methodum praelectionum hybernarum tam juridicarum, quam oratoriarum ac philosophicarum (Leipzig 1718);

literature

personal data
SURNAME Weidling, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1660
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH 1731
Place of death Ottendorf