Christoph Christian von Dabelow

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Christoph Christian Freiherr von Dabelow (born July 19, 1768 in Neubukow ; † April 28, July / May 10,  1830 greg. In Dorpat ) was a German law scholar and university professor .

Life

After attending the high schools in Güstrow and Rostock, Dabelow studied law at the universities of Rostock and Jena . After graduating in 1787, he settled as a lawyer. In 1789 he received his doctorate at the University of Bützow , at the time a branch of the University of Rostock. After his habilitation, he taught from 1792 as a full professor of law at the University of Halle . In Halle (Saale) , Dabelow became a member of the Freemasons' Union in the Johannisloge Friedrich zur steadfastness located there . When the university was temporarily closed after the war against Napoleon in the autumn of 1806, he traveled through Austria, Italy and France to expand his knowledge of Roman and French law at the local libraries. After the university reopened, he returned to Halle for a short time, but left there in 1809.

He moved to Leipzig because the prospect of a professorship at the University of Leipzig had officially been opened to him. The Saxon king wanted to establish several new professorships in Leipzig . However, when the war broke out again in 1809, things came to a standstill and failed. Then Dabelow stayed in Leipzig, where he lived partly in literary, partly practical occupation and u. a. Was a member of a major academic reading society . After completing his habilitation, he held law lectures at the university until March 1811. In the legal field he dealt in particular with the new Napoleonic civil law. He stood in the tradition of Christian Wolff's rational law approaches developed from natural law and was a student of Daniel Nettelbladt .

In 1811 he became State Councilor and then Minister of State under Duke August Christian zu Anhalt-Köthen . After the duke died childless in early May 1812 and the government was formally transferred to his underage nephew Ludwig August under the tutelage of the ducal family, Dabelow requested his release in 1813. He then lived without a permanent job in Heidelberg, Göttingen and then again in Halle before he was appointed full professor of law at the University of Dorpat in 1819 . After he had also been appointed court councilor in 1819, he was promoted to councilor in 1824 and finally to the Imperial Russian Council of State in 1830. He was responsible for the chair of civil law of Roman and German origin at the University of Dorpat until his death in 1830. He was the bearer of the Grand Ducal Hessian House Order. In his writings he covered almost all areas of law. Most recently, he was particularly interested in constitutional and international law.

Works (selection)

  • History of all sources of common German positive law , two parts. Hall 1792.
  • Encyclopedia and Methodology of Law , Halle 1793.
  • Textbook of constitutional and international law of the Germans , Halle 1795.
  • Attempt of a theory of the doctrines of the feudal debts, the feudal concourse and the relation of the feudal believers to the allodial believers , Halle 1797.
  • Detailed theoretical and practical commentary on the Code Napoleon , Halle 1810.
  • France's current situation, constitution and administration - with an introduction to the past , Halle 1810.
  • Thoughts on the German Confederation promised by the Peace of Paris on May 30, 1814. Along with an appendix on Napoleon's plans for Germany if his plans for Russia had been successful, from unprinted documents. Johann Friedrich Röwer, Göttingen 1814.
  • About the 13th article of the German Federal Act concerning the state constitutions , Halle 1816.
  • On sovereignty, the state constitution and the representative system, taking into account Ancillon's principles and applying it to Germany , Marburg 1816.
  • Roman state and legal history in plan , Halle 1818.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the burial register of St. John's Church in Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu Jaani kirik)
  2. ↑ See the entry of Christoph Christian Dabelow's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ See the entry of Christoph Christian Dabelow's doctorate in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Christoph von Dabelow-Freemason , on the homepage: Institute for German Aristocracy Research (accessed January 11, 2013)
  5. ^ Franz Wieacker : History of private law in the modern era with special consideration of German developments. Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 2nd edition 1967, p. 321.
personal data
SURNAME Dabelow, Christoph Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dabelow, Christoph Christian Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubukow
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1830
Place of death Dorpat