Ernst Georg Julius Hecht

Ernst Georg Julius Hecht (born September 25, 1775 in Halberstadt ; † January 22, 1840 there ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Ernst Georg Julius Hecht was born the second son of a doctor and private scholar; his brother was the Prussian secret government councilor and botanist Gottfried Konrad Hecht . He attended the cathedral grammar school in Halberstadt and began studying law at the University of Halle at Easter 1794 . From 1796 to 1797 he attended the University of Göttingen and then returned to Halberstadt.

After successfully passing the exam at the local higher court, he became an auscultator and 1800 consultant at the higher court.

In the newly established Kingdom of Westphalia , the French satellite state of the French Empire, the judicial authorities were reorganized, to which the higher court in Halberstadt belonged, so that in 1808 he received a judge's position at the tribunal of the first instance . He was later appointed to the higher regional judge, but asked on June 20, 1830 for health reasons to be released from civil service.

Since then he has dealt exclusively with historical and antiquarian studies and also undertook major trips in the service of science, so he visited various regions in Germany, also toured Switzerland , Tyrol , Holland , Belgium , Italy , Hungary and Bohemia .

He acquired several collections, which consisted of printed and written books on the half-town history, constitution, geography and topography, maps, plans, hand drawings, portraits of memorable people from Halberstadt, documents, manuscripts from chronicles, seals and seal impressions and coins from Halberstadt.

After his death he bequeathed the Hecht collections, which also included the monastery library and the monastery archive of the abolished St. Jacobi monastery (Halberstadt) . He had remained unmarried and bequeathed the collection to his nephew, Judge Heine, on the condition that it should not be divided up or sold, and no one should have access until 30 years after his death.

Through the inheritance, the Heine family, who had already acquired the property of the monastery, also received the associated collections. Later on, the Heine family refused to make the collections publicly available, as was stipulated in the will. After the allotted time, she sold a large part of it in 1882. Parts are preserved today in the main state archive in Hanover.

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed on November 21, 2017]).
2. ↑ St. Jacobi Monastery (Halberstadt) - Saxony-Anhalt Wiki. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on November 22, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ NLA HA Dep. 76 - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .