Christian von Gmelin

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Portrait of Christian von Gmelin from the holdings of the Tübingen Professorengalerie on an oil painting by an anonymous master

Christian Gmelin , from 1808 by Gmelin , (born January 23, 1750 in Tübingen ; † June 6, 1823 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Christian Gmelin was born on January 23, 1750 as the son of Johann Georg Gmelin . He studied at the University of Tübingen and was appointed court lawyer in 1769 . At the same time he was allowed to give private lectures on civil law. For the next three years he took care of the legal training of a noble boy as a private teacher , whereby he also continued his education. 1773 he returned to lectures at the University of Tübingen and was there for the doctor of jurisprudence doctorate . He then became a councilor at the University of Erlangen . Now he also became a professor of law, more precisely, among other things, legal history.

In 1777 he was appointed honorary member of the Princely Moral Institute and the Fine Sciences in Erlangen, and in the following year he obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the university . At the beginning of 1781 he returned to Tübingen as a full law professor. Moriz Gmelin describes Christian von Gmelin not as a “one-sided specialist scholar”, but as a “man of varied education” who himself attracted students from other countries to the University of Tübingen. In 1808 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit , which was associated with the personal nobility.

During the last twenty years of his life, von Gmelin suffered from an illness, after several requests he was granted retirement in 1822 . During a visit by one of his sons, he finally died on June 6, 1823 in Ludwigsburg at the age of 73.

In October 1774 he had married Charlotte von Schlümbach. They had four children.

To distinguish it from his cousin of the same name ( Christian Gottlieb Gmelin ), Christian von Gmelin was called the “Pandecten-Gmelin” at the university, while Christian Gottlieb was the “Criminal-Gmelin”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1809/1810, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Gmelin, Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gmelin, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1823
Place of death Ludwigsburg