Ferdinand Frensdorff

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Ferdinand Frensdorff (born June 17, 1833 in Hanover ; † May 31, 1931 in Göttingen ) was a German lawyer, legal historian and university professor.

Life

family

Ferdinand Frensdorff was the son of the Jewish merchant working in Hanover and Josef (or Joseph) Frensdorff († 1877), son of Michael Frensdorff († 1810), who was entrusted with the administration of the Hanoverian state rabbinate. His mother was Röschen, daughter of the country rabbi Samuel Levi Egers and Rahel Berisch (1787-1815) , who worked in Braunschweig .

Ferdinand Frensdorff's sister Rosalie married Rabbi Moritz Landsberg (1824–1882) , who worked in Liegnitz . His cousin was the orientalist and educator Salomon Frensdorff .

Frensdorff married Anna Cäcilie, who died in 1928, sister of the ophthalmologist Richard Deutschmann .

School and study

Ferdinand Frensdorff was born in 1833 in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover at the beginning of industrialization . After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Hanover, he studied law . First he went to Heidelberg University for three semesters in the spring of 1853 , especially to hear from Adolph von Vangerow . He also attended the lectures of Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier , President of the Pre-Parliament in 1848 , which was supposed to prepare the election of the Frankfurt National Assembly, and of Heinrich Marquardsen , who at the time had recently completed his habilitation in Heidelberg. In autumn 1854 Frensdorff moved to the University of Göttingen , where he joined the fraternity of Hanover in 1854 , and first attended the lectures of Wilhelm Theodor Kraut and Johann Heinrich Thöl . The contact with Georg Waitz , who became a fatherly friend to him , became decisive . Waitz had only been appointed to Frensdorff's last semester in Göttingen in 1857. In the same year Frensdorff was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . Nevertheless, he continued his studies at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig for one semester each . He went to Berlin to deepen his knowledge with the legal historian Carl Gustav Homeyer , Leipzig interested him because of the constitutional lawyer Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht , who, according to his own admission, impressed Frensdorff extremely.

academic career

In 1863 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen - his habilitation thesis, published in 1861, was dedicated to the city ​​and court constitution of Lübeck in the 12th and 13th centuries - and in 1866 he was appointed associate professor. In the 1860s he edited the Augsburger Chroniken for the edition series Die Chroniken der deutschen Stadt on behalf of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. The management of the edition series was in the hands of the Erlangen historian Karl Hegel , son of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . The historian Marion Kreis stated about the relationship between the two: "The relationship between the two was characterized by mutual sympathy and the highest esteem until Hegel's death [1901]." Extensive correspondence has been preserved from this period, which testifies to Frensdorff's skillful, quick and conscientious way of working. In 1865 the first volume of the Chronicles appeared in Frensdorff's hand, and in 1866 the second. In 1871, two more essays followed on the subject of the Augsburg Chronicles and after leaving the edition project, he benevolently reviewed other volumes in the series. Frensdorff wrote two detailed, appreciative obituaries about his former employer Karl Hegel.

At the beginning of the 1870s, Frensdorff returned to his actual research interest, the Lübeck studies. In 1872 his fundamental work appeared, The Luebian Law according to its oldest forms. In 1873 Frensdorff was appointed full professor of German and public law at the University of Göttingen, with whom he remained connected until his death. Georg Waitz won him over in 1875 to work on the newly established sixth section of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , which was to be devoted to the city ​​rights of the Middle Ages. After many trips and archival studies, editing plans and preliminary work, Frensdorff had to return the order to the Central Commission in 1891 because he was unable to meet the new requirements placed on the publisher of documentary texts. The project was then discontinued by the Central Commission.

From 1881 Frensdorff belonged to the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In the winter semester of 1887/88 he was rector of the University of Göttingen. In 1886 he published the sixth improved edition of the textbook Grundriß for lectures on German private law , a standard work for legal training founded by Frensdorff, former teacher Wilhelm Theodor Kraut, until the civil law came into force. In 1896 he was appointed to the founding commission of the German Legal Dictionary (DRW). Herbert Meyer dedicated his work on the Mühlhausen imperial law book to him in 1923 - the now 90 year old - with the words: "The master of the philological method in the field of German legal history."

The painter Heinrich Pforr created a portrait of Frensdorff in 1912, which is in the Legal Department of the University of Göttingen.

Research priorities

Frensdorff's academic interest was primarily in medieval town law, especially in the Low German area, in particular the Lübeck constitution and the law of Luebeck . In addition, he researched legal relationships in the Hanseatic League . As the fruit of his work for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, he published the edition of the Dortmund Statutes and Judgments in 1882 , which was regarded as an exemplary work and one of the best editions of its time in this field. In several essays he devoted himself to further city rights, especially Braunschweig , until 1905 . From the 1880s, the law books came into Frensdorff's field of vision as a new research complex. He devoted himself to them in a series of articles on the history and explanation of German legal books. The last three articles in this "series" appeared in 1924–1926 and dealt with the legal books and the election of a king. After his wife's death in 1928, he was no longer able to complete his work on the Lübeck statutes.

Between 1875 and 1900 he wrote 82 résumés for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, mostly about lawyers and historians who had a relationship with Göttingen. In 1914 he published an important biography about the lawyer and politician Gottlieb Planck , in which he presented the progress movement that existed during Planck's student days and later in Göttingen, including the significant part that his own fraternity, Hannovera, had in it.

Honors

  • In 1888 he was given the title of Privy Councilor of Justice .
  • In 1893 he received the Dr. phil. hc by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen.
  • In 1913 the Festschrift of the Göttingen Law Faculty - Ferdinand Frensdorff was published for his 80th birthday on June 17, 1913 .
  • In 1917 Lübeck honored him with the Bene Merenti commemorative coin .
  • In 1923 he was awarded the Dr. rer. pole. hc by the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Göttingen
  • In 1953, Frensdorffstrasse in Dortmund was named after him.

Publications

  • The city and court constitution of Lübeck in the 12th and 13th centuries. Lübeck 1861.
  • Luebian law according to its oldest forms. S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1872.
  • The chronicles of the city of Augsburg (= chronicles of the German cities. Volumes 4 and 5). Two volumes. Leipzig 1865–1866.
  • A judgment book of the ecclesiastical court of Augsburg from the 14th century. In: Journal of Canon Law. Volume 10, 1871, pp. 1-37.
  • Dortmund statutes and judgments. In: Hanseatic historical sources. 3. Orphanage bookshop, Halle 1882.
  • Karl Bertram Stüve . In: Prussian year books. Volume 30-32, 1872-73 (Part 1: Volume 30, pp. 295-316; Part 2: Volume 31, pp. 589-643; Part 3: Volume 32, pp. 176-211).
  • In memory of Dr. Heinrich Thöl . Mohr, Freiburg i. B. 1885.
  • Halle and Göttingen: Speech to celebrate the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor and King on January 27, 1894, given by F. Frensdorff on behalf of the Georg August University. Dieterich, Göttingen 1894.
  • From the old empire to the new. Speech to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the German Empire on January 18, 1896 given on behalf of the Georg-Augusts-Universität. Dieterich, Göttingen 1896.
  • About the life and writings of the economist JHG von Justi . Göttingen 1903 (reprint Auvermann, Glashütten (im Taunus) 1970).
  • Engagement and marriage according to Hanseatic legal and historical sources. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter . Volume 23, 1917, pp. 291-350; Volume 24, 1918, pp. 1–126.
  • Dortmund statutes and judgments (= Hanseatic historical sources Volume 3). Verlag der Buchh. des orphanage, Halle 1882 (reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim; Zurich; New York 2005, ISBN 3-487-12083-6 ).
  • The guild law, especially in northern Germany, and the craftsmanship. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter. Volume 34, 1907, pp. 1–89.
  • Karl Hegel. In: News from the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen. Business communications. 1902. Issue 1. Göttingen 1902, pp. 52–72.
  • Karl Hegel and the history of the German urban system. Lecture at the Hanseatic Days in Emden on May 20, 1902, given by F [erdinand] Frensdorff. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter. Volume 29, 1901 [1902], pp. 141–160.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ferdinand Frensdorff  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hugo Thielen : Frensdorff, Ferdinand. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 121.
  2. ↑ Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. Volume 2. KG Saur, Munich 2004, p. 1028 f .; Karl Siegfried Bader:  Frensdorff, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 402 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ A b Karl Siegfried Bader: Frensdorff, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography. (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, p. 402.
  4. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity Hannovera zu Göttingen 1848-1998. Düsseldorf 1998, p. 23.
  5. ^ Marion circle: Karl Hegel. Historical significance and scientific history location (= series of publications of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Volume 84). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen u. a. 2012, p. 250.
  6. ^ Marion circle: Karl Hegel. Historical significance and scientific history location (= series of publications of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Volume 84). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 2012, p. 251 f. 261.
  7. ^ Marion circle: Karl Hegel. Historical significance and scientific history location (= series of publications of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Volume 84). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 2012, p. 274.
  8. ^ Ferdinand Frensdorff: Karl Hegel. In: News from the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen. Business Communications 1902. Issue 1, 1902, pp. 52–72; Ferdinand Frensdorff: Karl Hegel and the history of the German urban system. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter. Volume 29, 1901, pp. 141–160.
personal data
SURNAME Frensdorff, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in German, lawyer and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1931
Place of death Goettingen