Egid von Löhr

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Egid Valentin Johann Felix Nepomuk Ferdinand von Löhr (born March 17, 1784 in Wetzlar ; † March 6, 1851 in Gießen ) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

Egid von Löhr was the son of Johann Philipp Joseph von Löhr (born January 11, 1746 in Wetzlar, † June 11, 1787 there), post office director in Wetzlar and his wife Salome (born April 28, 1746 in Wetzlar; † March 18, 1821 in Gießen), daughter of Georg Matthias Rudolf von Sachs (1713–1792), procurator at the Imperial Court of Justice , Hohenlohischer Hofrat , born. One of his ancestors was the Kurmainz chancellor Hartmann Jacobi .

Due to the premature death of his father in 1787, he received formal entitlement to the post office in Wetzlar in a princely handwriting, but he lost this right when the Prussian crown took over the city in 1815 , but had already decided to study law beforehand . He received his first legal lessons in 1800 from Bernegger in Wetzlar. At Easter 1802 he began to study law at the University of Marburg , which he continued until autumn 1805 at the University of Gießen and the University of Göttingen .

He was particularly marked at the University of Marburg by his professor Gustav von Hugo , who determined the scientific direction and with whom he was friends until his death. He also heard lectures from Philipp Friedrich Weiß , Georg Robert , Anton Bauer , Friedrich Carl von Savigny , Helwig Bernhard Jaup (1750–1806), Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Grolman , Justus Christoph Leist and Christoph Martin .

In 1807 he was already co-editor of the magazine for legislation and jurisprudence founded by the university professor Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Grolman .

After the prince-prince Karl Theodor von Dalberg founded a law school in Wetzlar in July 1808 , Egid von Löhr was appointed there as a full professor of law and promoted to the judiciary ; there he gave lectures on the legal encyclopedia, pandects , history and antiquities of Roman law, and at times also exegetical and hermeneutic lectures.

On May 10, 1813, he accepted a call to the sixth professorship of law at the University of Giessen, which he took up with the speech de lege Voconia ; shortly afterwards, based on previous publications, he received his doctorate and remained in this position until his death in 1851, despite calls from, among others, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Göttingen. In 1815 he moved to fifth in 1819 to fourth in 1821 and ordinary to the second professor of law and was in 1818 for secret government advice and appointed on July 9, 1830 Councilor. On November 30, 1833, he became Primarius of the Faculty of Law. Since January 16, 1835, he also held the office of syndic of the University of Giessen for a few years , which meant that in the absence of Chancellor Justin von Linde , he had to take over a lot of things that fell within his portfolio.

Together with Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut and Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier , he ran the archive for civilistic practice . He also wrote articles for the General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts .

Egid von Löhr married Franziska on October 11, 1814 (born April 30, 1794 in Wetzlar; † May 28, 1845 in Gießen), daughter of Joseph Marks (1763-1840), archive director of the Reich Chamber of Commerce and his wife Marie Anna Pistor. They had seven children together, of whom we know by name:

  • Joseph Ferdinand Karl von Löhr (born December 20, 1817 in Gießen, † December 28, 1876 in San Francisco), doctor of the German Hospital in San Francisco and vice-president of the Association for the Protection of German Immigrants in San Francisco.

Awards

  • In January 1823 he was appointed first class knight of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Ludwig .
  • On November 27, 1833 he received the Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Grand Ducal Order of Ludwig.
  • On March 25, 1840 he was awarded the honoris causa doctorate by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Giessen .

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SURNAME Löhr, Egid von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löhr, Egid Valentin von; Löhr, Egid Valentin Johann Felix Nepomuk Ferdinand von; Löhr, Egid Valentin Felix Johannes Nepomuk Ferdinand von; Löhr, Aegidius Valentin Felix Johannes Nepomuk Ferdinand von; Löhr, Egid V. von; Löhr, Egid Valentin JFNF von; Loehr, Egid Valentin JFNF from; Löhr, Egid Valentin Felix Johann Nepomuk Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1851
Place of death to water