Ferdinand Mackeldey

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Ferdinand Mackeldey

Ferdinand Mackeldey (born November 5, 1784 in Braunschweig , † October 20, 1834 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and professor at the universities of Helmstedt , Marburg and Bonn.

Life

Ferdinand Mackeldey was the son of the Duke of Brunswick stable master Johann Wolfgang Mackeldey († 1810) and his wife Elisabeth , née Hundiker, sister of the Duke of Brunswick school board Johann Peter Hundiker . After his father was transferred to the University of Helmstedt as university stable master , Ferdinand attended the grammar school there from 1793 and the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig from 1800 . In 1802 he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt, where he received his doctorate in law on May 19, 1806 . Mackeldey joined the university's panel of judgments as an auditor , settled as a lawyer and qualified as a lecturer in 1807 .

After Mackeldey lost his hearing permanently on November 7, 1807, for no apparent cause at the time, he resigned his lawyer and concentrated on his work as a lawyer and university lecturer. In 1808 he was appointed associate professor and in 1810, after the University of Helmstedt was closed, transferred to the University of Marburg , where he was appointed full professor in 1811.

In the autumn of 1818 Mackeldey received a call from the newly founded University of Bonn as a professor of Roman law . He started teaching in Bonn in the summer semester of 1819.

His lectures have been described as clear and lively, and despite his deafness, he is said to have managed to give his voice the necessary modulation. On the other hand, the politician, lawyer and writer Jodocus Temme describes that in Mackeldey's lectures " tumultuous nonsense and ridicule ", which some of the listeners allowed themselves with their deafness, were the order of the day.

The Prussian government awarded Mackeldey the title of Privy Councilor of Justice in 1824 and the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class in 1828 . Nonetheless, faculty colleagues made massive complaints about the quality of his academic work. After clear arguments among his colleagues, Mackeldey resigned as full professor of the university's verdict committee in 1828 in order to limit himself exclusively to teaching.

Marked by illness, he let himself be carried to his last lectures in the lecture hall. Ferdinand Mackeldey died penniless in October 1834.

family

He had been married to Mathilde von Wedel, daughter of General Karl Alexander von Wedel , since May 16, 1816 . His younger brother Friedrich Mackeldey was a judge and minister in the Electorate of Hesse .

Works (selection)

  • Diss. Inaug. Quatenus a. de recepto contra aurigas et curatores mercium s. Speditores conpetat. 1806.
  • Discussion of the question of whether a Protestant marriage without parental consent is null and void. 1806.
  • Theory of the order of succession according to Napoleon's code of law. 1811 ( archive.org ).
  • Textbook of the institutions of today's Roman private law. 1814.
  • Textbook of today's Roman law. 1818.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KW Justi: Basis for a Hessian scholar, writer and artist story . Pp. 429-430.
  2. ↑ Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme: Memories . Keip, Goldbach 1997, ISBN 3-8051-0442-1 (reprint of the Leipzig 1883 edition).
personal data
SURNAME Mackeldey, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and professor at the universities of Helmstedt, Marburg and Bonn
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1834
Place of death Bonn