Christoph Martin (lawyer)

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Christoph Martin
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Christoph Reinhard Dietrich Martin (born February 2, 1772 in Bovenden ; † August 13, 1857 in Gotha ) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

Martin came from a family from Dijon who had entered Hessian services as persecuted Protestants. His father was reserve commissioner in the Hessian exclave Bovenden, later in Hofgeismar . Martin attended school in Grebenstein and then studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1787 . He finished his studies in 1789 at the age of 17 and became an imperial notary in Göttingen . In 1796 he was promoted to Dr. doctorate in law. From then on he held lectures and exercises at the University of Göttingen, where he became an associate professor in 1802 and a full professor in 1805. In 1805 he followed his second call from Heidelberg and became professor and, as Thibaut's successor, temporarily prorector of the University of Heidelberg . There he became a member of the Freemason Lodge Carl for German honesty . The question of the introduction of a corporate constitution in the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1815 made him say goodbye to Baden and in 1816 he accepted a call to the new Jena Court of Appeal and the University of Jena , where he taught until his retirement in 1842. In retirement he wrote reports, was a member of government commissions and from 1846 to 1848 also a judge at the State Court of Justice.

In 1798 Martin married the daughter of General Superintendent Gottfried Wilhelm Wagemann . The legal scholar Adolph Martin (1802–1831) was his oldest son and also taught in Jena.

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SURNAME Martin, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Christoph Reinhard Dietrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Bovenden
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1857
Place of death Gotha