Ferdinand Chamberlain

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Ferdinand Kämmerer (born February 9, 1784 in Güstrow , † November 14, 1841 in Rostock ) was a lawyer and legal scholar at the University of Rostock .

Life

Ferdinand Kämmerer, whose family came from Stendal in the Altmark, was born as the son of the lawyer and senator Johann Georg Kämmerer (1747-1831) and his wife Christina Sophia, daughter of the council syndicate and Güstrow mayor Carl (VII.) Sibeth.

Kämmerer attended the Güstrower Domschule, then the pedagogy in Halle and the Lyceum in Gotha and then studied in Leipzig and Göttingen initially philology and later law. In 1807 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg and began to give lectures there. From 1813 he took part in the voluntary hunter corps in the wars of liberation .

In 1816 he was appointed full professor to Rostock and held a number of academic positions in the course of his university career. He was a member of the Philomatic Society of Rostock and the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity (Schwerin). In 1840 he was given the title of Privy Councilor.

Kämmerer was an outspoken literary expert and had amassed a very extensive library, which he bequeathed to the Rostock University Library , where it has been preserved to this day.

He died in Rostock, but was buried in his home town of Güstrow.

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to the history and theory of Roman law , Güstrow 1816
  • Contributions to the knowledge of Mecklenburg law , Rostock 1820
  • The appeal of the appeal in the Criminal Proceß , Rostock 1833

literature

  • Bibliotheca Kaemmererianer ... bequest to the Rostock University Library , Rostock 1843
  • Albert Teichmann :  Chamberlain, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 57.
  • Heinrich Roloff: Contributions to the history of the Rostock University Library in the 19th century. Leipzig 1955

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personal data
SURNAME Chamberlain, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, legal scholar in Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1841
Place of death Rostock