Felix Matthäus Stupan von Ehrenstein

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Felix Matthäus Stupan von Ehrenstein (* 1743 ; † January 26, 1800 ) was an Austrian lawyer.

Life

Felix Matthäus Stupan von Ehrenstein was the son of Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein, Austrian Privy Councilor of State .

After studying law, he began in 1767 at the Imperial Chamber visit and in 1771 came as a councilor to the Lower Austrian government and in 1782 to the Lower Austrian Court of Appeal in the same way .

In 1784 negotiations for the constitution of an Austrian maritime law were started and Felix Matthäus Stupan von Ehrenstein led the department on maritime law matters to the legislative court commission after Franz Georg von Keeß (1747–1799) and Michael Joseph Freiherr von Conforti.

When the land table was introduced at the highest judicial office ( later: Supreme Court ) in 1785 , he was employed as a consultant.

In 1789 he became vice-president of the Bohemian Land Law . At his request on February 24, 1791, he was appointed court counselor to the highest judicial office and when this was merged with the Bohemian-Austrian court chancellery , he was transferred to the court chancellery.

When, on February 23, 1797, the composition of a court commission in legal matters, ordered by the imperial handwritten ticket by Emperor Franz II , he was appointed as assessor by the Justice Department. During the advance of the French army towards Vienna in the spring of 1797 , it was feared that the highest judicial authority could be hindered in its activities, also with regard to the parts of the empire that were not directly affected by the war. For this reason, the Supreme Justice President Leopold von Clary and Aldringen (1736–1800) with six councilors, including Felix Matthäus Stupan von Ehrenstein, was ordered to Prague to take over the administration of justice for Bohemia , Moravia , Silesia and East - and to maintain western Galicia .

His son was the councilor Ignaz Stupan von Ehrenstein .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BLKÖ: Stupan von Ehrenstein, Anton Maria Freiherr - Wikisource. Retrieved July 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ New titulature and economic calendar: to the year ... published by Anton Elsenwanger, 1776 ( google.de [accessed on July 6, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Stupan von Ehrenstein, Felix Matthäus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1743
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1800