Daniel Christoph Reidenitz

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Daniel Christoph Reidenitz (also: Reidnitz, Reibnitz ; * December 23, 1760 in Legitten in the Labiau district ; † April 8, 1842 in Königsberg ) was a German lawyer.

Life

He was the son of the pastor of Legitten Johann Ludwig Reidenitz († 1770) and his wife Regine Friederike, daughter of the Königsberg professor of theology David Vogel (1674-1736). He had attended the cathedral school in Königsberg and in 1776 began studying law at the University of Königsberg . On March 27, 1788 he had held his inaugural dissertation De theoria generali praesumtionis and was then awarded a doctorate in law. In the same year he began to hold private lectures at the university, was appointed associate professor of law in Königsberg in 1789 and fourth full professor in 1790. On March 24, 1792 he was appointed assessor of the East Prussian government, in 1796 he was promoted to the third full professorship of law, became second full professor in 1802 and first full professor in 1803.

In 1803 his only significant work, Natural Law after Kant (Königsberg 1803), appeared and he became the university's chancellor. He had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University. He was rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters 1803 and 1807 and in the winter semester 1807/08 . In the summer semesters of 1811, 1813, 1817, 1821, 1823 and 1829 he was Vice Rector. Just as he had risen in the reputation of the Königsberg University, this was also recognized in the royal Prussian government. In 1796 he was appointed to the East Prussian Government Council, in 1812 to the Tribunal Council, in 1822 to the Higher Justice Council and on January 1, 1840, he retired with the title of Privy Higher Justice Council.

literature

  • Georg Conrad: History of the Königsberg higher courts. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 269 f.
  • Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Verlag Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1811, vol. 15, p. 119 (online) ; 1823, Vol. 19, p. 279, (online) .
  • New necrology of the Germans. Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1844, Vol. 20, Part 2, (Vol. 1842), P. 1073, No. 793, (online) .
  • Aemilius Ludwig Richter, Robert Schneider: Critical year books for German jurisprudence. Publishing house Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., Leipzig 1842, 1st volume 1st year, p. 477, (online)
  • Old Prussian biography. II, Marburg 1967, p. 547.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ other sources 1751, 1758, 1761
  2. ↑ here also April 9th
personal data
SURNAME Reidenitz, Daniel Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reidnitz, Reibnitz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Legitten, Labiau County
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1842
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)