Clemens-August von Droste zu Hülshoff

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Clemens-August Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff (born February 2, 1793 in Coesfeld , † August 13, 1832 in Wiesbaden ) was a professor of legal philosophy, canon law and criminal law and rector of the University of Bonn .

Life

The Hülshoff'sche Hof to the left of the Krameramtshaus , Clemens August's residence from 1810–1817

Clemens-August (III.) Von Droste zu Hülshoff , who should not be confused with his uncle Clemens-August II. Von Droste zu Hülshoff , was born on February 2, 1793 in Coesfeld as the younger son of the composer Maximilian-Friedrich von Droste zu Hülshoff (1764–1840) and his wife Bernardine Engelen (1769–1827) and belonged to the 20th generation of his family. His older brother Joseph was an ophthalmologist and was the owner of Haus Alst for a time . He was a cousin of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , who was very close to him, visited the family several times in Bonn in Voigtsgasse (today Konviktsstraße 2a) and dedicated a poem to him as an obituary. From the autumn of 1804 he attended the Paulinum high school in Münster and studied philosophy, theology and law at the University of Münster from 1809 . There he met his esteemed teacher and friend Georg Hermes . He was highly musical and in his youth was considered the best piano player in Münster. He married Pauline von und zur Mühlen in 1823 (* August 15, 1797, † July 25, 1871). They had a daughter Elisabeth (born April 11, 1827 in Bonn; † February 8, 1891 there), who remained unmarried. During a spa stay in Wiesbaden , Clemens-August Droste zu Hülshoff, only 39 years old, suddenly died on August 13, 1832. Originally buried there, he was later buried in a family grave in the old cemetery in Bonn, which still exists.

Act

University of Bonn, place of activity of Clemens-August

From 1814 to 1820 Clemens-August Droste zu Hülshoff was a teacher at the Paulinum grammar school in Münster. On the mediation of his sponsor Ferdinand August von Spiegel , he received a scholarship from 1817 to study philology and law in Berlin for two years . He completed his law studies in 1820 with a doctorate .

After studying church conditions in Vienna and Munich for almost twelve months on behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Culture, he completed his habilitation at the request of the Prussian Ministry of Culture in 1822 at the law faculty of the University of Bonn and became a full professor there in 1825 .

His activities included natural, church and criminal law, but also procedural and constitutional law. Without ever being dean , he became rector of the university for the years 1829/30 and in the summer semester of 1831 .

After the death of Georg Hermes , in the confusion of Cologne , he became the “quick-witted literary governor of Hermesianism”, v. a. in the journal for philosophy and Catholic theology, which he co-founded .

Appreciations

Heinrich Schrörs judges him:

“The Westphalian baron, who came from the nobility of the Münsterland region, was a philosopher and theologian by nature, in the style of his teacher Hermes, to whom he was closer scientifically and personally than anyone else. But he was incomparably superior to this not only because of the extensive knowledge that encompassed the most diverse branches of jurisprudence, but also because of the breadth and height of a uniform general education and the lively and witty handling of the written word. "

Erik Wolf writes about him:

"Distinguished through the ingenious combination of historical-dogmatic and metaphysical-speculative methods, solid character in the fundamentals, clear conceptualization and cultivated style, his works are among the best achievements of German legal philosophy in the beginning of the 19th century."

Alexander Hollerbach emphasizes:

"However, if one had followed his natural law doctrine in German Catholicism, the liberal wing of political Catholicism would presumably also have had its legal philosophical basis and could have found a theoretically positive approach to the idea of ​​the constitutional state with guarantees of fundamental rights."

Works

  • De juris austriaci et communis canonici circa matrimonii impedimenta discrimine , Bonn 1822.
  • On natural law as a source of canon law , Bonn 1822.
  • Textbook of natural law or legal philosophy , Bonn 1823 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Legal philosophical treatises , Bonn 1824.
  • De Aristoteles justitia universali et particulari, deque nexu quo ethica et jurisprudentia junctae sunt , Bonn 1826.
  • Introduction to common German criminal law , Bonn 1826.
  • Justification of the judgment issued by the Bonn Faculty of Law in the case of the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt aM , Bonn 1827.
  • Principles of common canon law of Catholics and Protestants, as they apply in Germany , Münster 1828–33.
  • Illumination I. of the "Urphilosophie, the systems of dogmatics, Kant's, Jacobi's, especially indicated as opposed to the necessity system by Georg Hermes" by A. von Sieger. Düsseldorf with Joh. Heinrich Christ. Schreiner 1831. + II. The promotion of the same in the magazine "der Katholik" from the year 1831 + III. and the “main moments of Hermessian philosophy. Or illuminating the philosophical introduction to the Christian Catholic theology by Georg Hermes. An attempt ”by Johann Hast. Münster 1832. in the Theissing'schen Buchhandlung , Bonn 1832.
  • Questions to all Catholic theologians in Germany regarding Hermesianism etc., answered by DvH , Bonn 1832.
  • Sidecar for the Bonn magazine for philosophy and catholic theology , Bonn 1832.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Schrörs: A forgotten guide from the Rhenish intellectual history of the nineteenth century: Johann Wilhelm Joseph Braun (1801–1863), professor of theology in Bonn. Kurt Schroeder, Bonn 1925, p. 110.
  2. ↑ Erik Wolf :  Droste zu Hülshoff, Clemens August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 132 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Alexander Hollerbach: Catholicism and Jurisprudence: Contributions to Catholicism research and the recent history of science. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, p. 266.
personal data
SURNAME Droste zu Hülshoff, Clemens-August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Droste zu Hülshoff, Clemens-August Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and professor of legal philosophy, church and criminal law and rector of the University of Bonn
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Coesfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1832
Place of death Wiesbaden