Adolf von Ende

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Silhouette of stud. jur. Adolf von Ende in Göttingen (1778)

Ferdinand Adolf Freiherr am Ende (von Ende) (born March 9, 1760 in Lucklum ; † July 10, 1816 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer and Württemberg Minister of Justice .

origin

His parents were Gotthelf Dietrich von Ende (June 4, 1726 - October 13, 1798) and his wife Countess Johanna Adelheid von der Schulenburg- Wolfsburg (November 27, 1735 - May 12, 1805). His father was a royal British and Electorate of Hanover , a real secret councilor and heir to Monzig near Meißen; his mother the daughter of the Prussian general Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg . His brother was the Prussian general and commander of Cologne Friedrich Albrecht Gotthilf von Ende .

Career

Ferdinand Adolf von Ende was prepared for his studies at the university by his private tutors. He studied in Leipzig under the guidance of the court master Höpfer and later moved to Göttingen , where he became a member of the Kurland team . His silhouette from his student days in Göttingen has been preserved in the Schubert silhouette collection . In 1780 he became a chancellery auditor in Celle, in 1783 an extraordinary judicial advisor in Stade, then a full judicial advisor and, after a few years, an appellate councilor in Celle. He stayed there until 1803. He then entered the service of the Elector of Württemberg and was head of the justice department in the Württemberg State Ministry in Stuttgart from 1806 to 1809 . From 1810 at the end of Baden he was a secret legation councilor in Karlsruhe and from this time lived in Mannheim . He died in Cologne.

Interests

In addition to his professional interest in law, Ende also studied historical studies. For example, he drew attention to some unclear passages in the works of Strabo and Cicero . He also had a strong interest in astronomy . He tried to observe all celestial phenomena such as eclipses, star coverings and comets (especially the comet of 1811 ) himself. On his travels he often took portable instruments (especially sextants and clocks ) with him to determine geographic locations, for example on a trip to Leipzig and Dresden in 1799 . In Celle he had set up an observatory on his house, the instruments of which he later took with him to Mannheim. He finally sold his reflector to the Mannheim observatory and showed great interest in their financial resources.

Together with Johann Hieronymus Schroeter , Franz Xaver von Zach , Johann Gildemeister , Wilhelm Olbers and Karl Ludwig Harding , he founded the United Astronomical Society in 1800 .

Publications

The list of his publications is as broad as his various interests: Ferdinand Adolf von Ende anonymously published several historical and legal essays in the Brunswick-Lüneburg Annals and published collections for history and civics with Andreas Ludolf Jacobi (1746–1825) the Brunswick-Lüneburg Courlands.

Other legal publications from his pen were:

  • Mixed legal treatises , Celle 1802;
  • Mixed legal essays , 1816.

In the field of astronomy, in addition to small articles, Ende published the following in the monthly correspondence for the promotion of Earth and Heaven , edited by Franz Xaver von Zach , and in the Astronomical Yearbooks , edited by Johann Elert Bode :

  • Geographical localization in the Lower Saxony district along with some astronomical observations and remarks , 1802
  • About masses and stones that fell from the moon to earth , 1804. NB: This publication took into account the hypothesis made at the time that the meteor stones came from the moon

In his astronomical writings, Ende spoke out against the possible visibility of Jupiter's moons with the naked eye. In relation to the question of the supposed Venus moon , however, he did not want to definitely acknowledge that such phenomena can always be traced back to an optical illusion.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Although he was born in Lucklum as the son of a father who worked in the Electorate of Hanover, he matriculated in Göttingen as a “stud. jur. from Saxony ”; According to the convention protocols of the Hanoverian Landsmannschaft, membership was made possible by the lifting of the compulsory cantonment on the part of the Curische Landsmannschaft. Cf. Otto Deneke : Alte Göttinger Landsmannschaften - documents for their earliest history (1737-1813) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1937; as a record book holder in the Göttingen city archive 109 , 68 (1776) with editorial note “Indication of origin erased” (!), 188 , 13
personal data
SURNAME End, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ende, Freiherr Ferdinand Adolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucklum
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1816
Place of death Cologne