Ernst Friedrich Pfotenhauer

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Ernst Friedrich Pfotenhauer (born June 1, 1771 in Delitzsch , † August 23, 1843 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Born Heinrich Friedrich Samuel Pfotenhauer as the son of a district judge and later district inspector in Wernsdorf, he attended the city school in his hometown until he was 14 years old. Because of his good facilities that he had developed there, he moved into the electoral state high school in Schulpforta on September 3, 1785 . Here he developed a predilection for law, which was shown, among other things, in his dissertation De literis humanioribus cum studio jurispudentiae conjugendis , which he presented at the age of 18.

In order to complete the necessary academic ordinations, he went to the University of Wittenberg on September 29, 1789 . Here he mainly attended the lectures of Georg Stephan Wiesand , in history he heard Johann Matthias Schröckh and in philosophy Franz Volkmar Reinhard . During his studies he had primarily sought contact with like-minded people, so that on November 6, 1792 he was able to take his exams pro candidatura et praxi forensi. In the same year he found a job in the Wittenberg district office and held his first private academic lecture on January 7, 1793. After he had started to write his first legal work, he received his doctorate on July 17, 1795 as a doctor of law.

Due to the recognition he received, he was admitted to the Faculty of Law on June 27, 1801, and on April 21, 1803, he was given the full professorship of Dignesten Infort. Et novi and connected with it he was electoral Saxon court judge and received a seat at the Wittenberg Schöppenstuhl . In Wittenberg he experienced the last days of the declining university , which was finally relocated to Schmiedeberg, and in 1807 was its rector . Since the University of Halle presented him with very promising offers after the decline of Wittenberg University, he moved to Halle (Saale) on April 14, 1816 . At the University of Halle he became a full professor of the law faculty, in 1839 director of the Schöppenstuhl, in 1841 a secret councilor and died after being honored for his 50 years of academic work of gastric and pneumonia.

Genealogically it should be noted that he had married Eleonora Lange († 1811) in 1797 and then with Sophie Berndes. Of his numerous children, his son Karl Eduard Pfotenhauer (born September 18, 1802 in Wittenberg) also gained importance as a professor in Bern.

Selection of works

  • Doctrina processus cum Germanici, tum Saxonici. 3. Vol. Görlitz 1795–1797, Supplement 1797 in Wittenberg, Leipzig 1826–27.
  • De judiciis, a quiribus et ad quae provocare licet in terris Electori Saxon. Subjectis, Wittenberg 1795.
  • Handbook of the criminal laws published in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1770 to the most recent times. Wittenberg 1811.
  • Halle 1819 explains the criminal liability of the public burning of other people's pamphlets and the admissibility of a re-complaint in the denunciation and investigation process through a legal case .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Pfotenhauer, Ernst Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Delitzsch
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1843
Place of death Halle (Saale)