Christian von Schlözer

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Christian von Schlözer (born December 1, 1774 in Göttingen , † November 24, 1831 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

Christian von Schlözer was the eldest son of the 1804 Russian ennobled Göttingen scholar August Ludwig von Schlözer and his wife Caroline Friederike von Schlözer . The philosopher Dorothea Schlözer was his sister, the businessman Karl von Schlözer his brother. He attended school in Eisleben and studied law and history at the University of Göttingen , where he was awarded a Dr. of both rights. Like his father, he began his academic career after studying in Russia, where he taught as a constitutional lawyer at the University of Dorpat from 1800 and from 1802 to 1826 at the Lomonossow University in Moscow. In 1805 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Schlözer was appointed Russian court councilor and Russian state councilor in Moscow . In 1810 he began inspecting his father's estate and in 1828 published his biography, which he dedicated to his new employer, Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein . He entered the Prussian civil service in 1827 and in the summer semester of 1828 became a professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn , where he worked until his death.

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  1. Schlözer's public and private life from original documents and with the literal addition of several of the latter. 2 vols., Leipzig 1828.