Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda
Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda (born March 5, 1746 in Wulmstorf (Thedinghausen) , † May 18, 1803 in Regensburg ) was a German constitutional lawyer and minister from Braunschweig .
Life
Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda arrived on March 5, 1746 at his father's estate Wulmstorf in the county of Hoya as the son of the court master and captain Dietrich August von Ompteda and Beata Magdalena, née. from horn to the world.
After a befitting education in the years 1761 to 1763 at the Knight Academy Lüneburg he studied with Johann Stephan Putter , with whom he was friends, in the then prestigious University of Goettingen jurisprudence . He was a member of the student order Ordre de l'Esperance in Göttingen .
After successfully completing his studies, Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda found a job in 1767 as a full assessor at the Calenberg court in Hanover , where he was appointed court councilor in quick succession in 1770, in 1774 as a real council of war, in 1778 as court judge at the Calenberg court and in 1782 as district and treasurer of the Principality of Calenberg advanced. Freemason since 1778 , he officiated from 1781 to 1784 as master of the chair of the Hanover lodge Zum white horses . In 1783, at the age of 37, he became Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of Karl Theodor in Munich , who, as Elector Palatinate, also became Elector of Bavaria in 1777 , when he was also Comitial Envoy for the Brunswick-Lüneburg Elector Georg III at the Imperial Assembly in Regensburg . who was also King of England. In 1792 he was elected honorary member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
He held both posts in Regensburg without interruption until his death on May 18, 1803. Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda died at the age of 57.
estate
His extensive collection of more than two thousand maps, amassed for the purpose of studying international law, was acquired by the Dorpat University Library in 1805 .
meaning
In his main work, literature of the entire natural and positive international law in two volumes, published in 1785, Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda decisively expanded the systematics of international law, which previously consisted only of peace and martial law, by adding a third to international law with the rights and obligations of the people Added area that is fundamentally above peace and martial law and is only partially influenced by the latter.
Long after Ompteda's death, Karl Albert von Kamptz added a third volume to his main work in 1817 . Other works by Ompteda appeared anonymously because George III. was considered very conservative and difficult; they dealt with the kingdom of justice, but under Napoleon I was changed.
Fonts
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Literature of the whole of both natural and positive international law. 2 parts. Mondags Erben, Regensburg 1785 (dedicated to the Electoral Comtial Envoy Carl Anton Friedrich Graf von Hohenthal; digitized part 1 ; digitized part 2 ).
- in addition: Part 3: Karl Albert von Kamptz : New literature of international law since 1784; as a supplement and continuation of the work of the envoy of Ompteda. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1817, ( digitized version ).
- (anonymous): Illumination of the impartial thoughts about the introduction of the Simultaneum in the Osnabrück towns of Fürstenau and Schledehausen and the complaints made by the City of Fürstenau. Mondays Erben, Regensburg 1788, ( online ).
- (anonymous): Considerations on the matter of the senates of the Imperial and Reich Cammer Courts. Piece 1. Mondays Erben, Regensburg 1788, ( online ).
- History of the former regular court visitations and the two centuries of fruitless efforts to restore them. Zeitler, Regensburg 1792, ( online ).
His wife, a Freiin von der Horst, wrote a French poem on the death of the celebrated founder and curator of the Göttingen University, Prime Minister Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen, in 1770.
literature
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Ompteda, Ludwig von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 354 f.
- Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin: Ompteda, Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 534 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda in the catalog of the German National Library
- family tree
- Another family tree with a short biography
- Ompteda as the founder of a collection of over 2000 cards
- More about the map collection (PDF file; 169 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 182.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ompteda, Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ompteda, Dietrich H. von; Ompteda, Diedrich H .; Ompteda, Diedrich H. von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German constitutional lawyer and minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1746 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hoya |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1803 |
| Place of death | regensburg |