Ferdinand Walter

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Ferdinand Walter. Chalk lithograph by Christian Hohe 1834.

Ferdinand Walter (born November 30, 1794 in Wetzlar ; † December 13, 1879 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Ferdinand Walter was the son of Hofkammerrat Franz Martin Walter, who served the Prince of Salm-Salm in Senones ( Vosges ) and in Wetzlar. As a child of three years Walter was bitten in the face by General Hoche's dog , leaving a large scar. In December 1802 his mother moved with the children to Düsseldorf , where he received his first lessons until 1805 and often went to the gallery, so that, according to his own story, in 1841 in the Munich “ Rembrandts , Rubens and other paintings like old ones Acquaintances welcomed ”. From 1805 to 1809 he attended the Latin school in Mülheim am Rhein . From 1809 to 1813 he received some private lessons in Cologne, where on June 9, 1811 he took part as Mercury in the parade in Napoleon's honor. In November 1813 he volunteered and served in a Cossack regiment, took part in the campaign until his entry into Paris and received the George Cross 5th grade.

From autumn 1814 he studied at the University of Heidelberg , where he was especially friends with Carové , Thibaut and Hegel . In 1814 he became a member of the Teutonia Heidelberg fraternity . He was one of the founding members of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft . On August 10, 1818, he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1818. On February 13, 1819 he was appointed associate professor and on February 26, 1826 full professor in Bonn . He taught canon law , Roman legal history , German constitutional law and legal history , German private law and legal philosophy . Walter was also university rector in Bonn in 1832/33 . In 1842 Walter initiated the establishment of the Bonn Hospital Association , which was responsible for building the St. Johannes Hospital .

In 1848 he became a member of the Prussian National Assembly in Berlin, then also a member of the First Chamber (1849-1850) in which he represented the moderate conservative direction. In the negotiations of the first chamber, Walter spoke particularly on Articles 11 and following of the constitution. In his memoirs he printed the speeches and a letter to President von Gerlach of January 2, 1853 against attempts at change. In 1850 he was in talks with Friedrich Wilhelm IV. To become Prussian Minister of Justice. In 1869 he opposed the Pope's infallibility. Walter was also one of those citizens who campaigned for the Beethoven monument in Bonn in 1845.

family

Walter married Wilhelmine Windischmann († April 6, 1832), daughter of Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann, on December 27, 1821 in Bonn. On September 4, 1833, he married Clara Menningen in his second marriage. Four children including Antonie married to Dr. med. Menningen , Paula married to Theodor Guillery and the son Friedrich Gottlieb Ludwig Walter .

Honors

Works

  • Textbook of canon law taking into account the latest circumstances . Adolph Marcus , Bonn 1822 digitized
  • Corpus juris Germanici antiqui. Ex optimis subsidiis collegit, edidit et lectionum varietatem adjecit . 3 vols. G. Reimer, Berlin 1824 Third volume digitized
  • Textbook of canon law edited from the new and older sources . 2nd very changed edition. Adolf Marcus, Bonn 1822 digitized
  • Textbook of canon law of all Christian denominations . 6th edition Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1833 digitized
  • System of common German private law. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1833 digitized
  • About Niebuhr and Schultz . Eduard Weber, Bonn 1834 digitized
  • History of Roman law up to Justinian . 3 deliveries. Eduard Weber, Bonn 1834 Digitized , 1837, 1840
  • Textbook of canon law of all Christian denominations . 7th increased edition. With an appendix containing the latest ecclesiastical legal sources for Germany and Switzerland . Aldolph Marcus, Bonn 1836 digitized
  • Romeo Maurenbrecher : Textbook of the whole of today's German private law . Ed. Ferdinand Walter. 2 vols. Eduard Weber, Bonn 1840–1855
  • Manuel de droit ecclésiastique de toutes les confessions chrétiennes . Paris 1840 digitized
  • Mr. Ellendorf against Walter's canon law . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1841
  • To the land! We have already addressed our words to you, residents of our Prussian Empire, during this fateful time . The elected committee of the Right and Right Center of the National Assembly. Tree strong . v. Daniels . Harkort . vd Heydt . Hesse. Ostermann. Simons . Vennewitz. Walter. v. Wittgenstein . The members present today: v. Bard life . Berlin 1848 (leaflet)
  • About the crimes of the clergy under the new draft of the Prussian Penal Code. A frank criticism . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1848
  • Addendum to my criticism on the title of the draft of the Prussian penal code on the crimes of the clergy . Eduard Weber, Bonn 1848
  • Two speeches against the right to refuse taxes. Held in the Prussian First Chamber . Decker, Berlin 1849
  • On the revision of our constitutional charter . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1852 digitized
  • German legal history . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1852
  • System of common German private law . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1855
  • Legal encyclopedia . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1856 digitized
  • Observationes doctriam de banno in Speculo saxoenico et suevico illustrates . Caroli Georgii, Bonn 1857
  • German legal history . 2nd improved edition, 2 volumes. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1857 Second volume digitized
  • Sacram Memoriam Regis Serenissimi Friderici Guilelmi III. , Caroli Georgii, Bonn 1857 digitized
  • Declaration on the Prussian Yearbooks . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1858
  • To judge's canon law . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1858 [digitized version]
  • Old Wales. A contribution to the history of nations, law and the church . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1859 digitized
  • History of Roman law up to Justinian . 2. Parts. 3rd edition Eduard Weber, Bonn 1860 Second part digitized
  • Fontes juris ecclesiastici . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1862 digitized
  • Natural Law and Politics in the Light of the Present . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1863 digitized
  • Out of my life . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1865 digitized
  • Memories from Seelisberg in August 1865 . Stahel'sche Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Würzburg 1865 digitized
  • The old archbishopric and the imperial city of Cologne, its spiritual and secular constitution. A contribution to the history of German constitutional and private law, German canon law and the Rhenish nobility . First book. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1866 digitized
  • The general council and the world situation . Georg Joseph Manz, Regensburg 1869 digitized
  • About ecclesiastical infallibility. Conversations with a witty woman. From a layperson . Henry, Bonn 1871
  • Textbook of Canon Law . 14th edition edited by H. Gerlach. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1871
  • Natural Law and Politics in the Light of the Present . 2. verb. Ed. Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1871

literature

  • August Wilhelm von Schlegel : To my friend Windischmann at the wedding of his daughter Miss Wilhelmine Windischmann and Mr. Ferdinand Walter . Bonn 1821
  • The doctrine of injustice and its various forms. Festschrift to your highly esteemed colleague and senior Mr. Ferdinand Walter, on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in office on March 10, 1869 . Carl Georgi, Bonn 1869
  • Directory of the library of Mr. Ferdinand Walter. Extensive in the fields of theology, history, jurisprudence and canon law. Including a valuable collection, some of which are rare even in England, on the history and legal antiquities of Wales. Bonn book auction on November 8th, 1875 which will be auctioned in the auction room of Matthias Lempertz in Bonn . Bonn 1875
  • Hans Gerhardt: One hundred years of the Bonn Corps. The corps-historical development of the Bonner SC from 1819 to 1918 . Frankfurt am Main 1926; P. 117
  • Carl Grünberg : Documents from Karl Marx's university years . Archive for the History of Socialism and the Labor Movement 1926, pp. 232–239
  • Otto Wenig (Ed.): Directory of professors and lecturers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818-1968 . H. Bouvier & Co. Verlag, Bonn 1968
  • The doctorate of Karl Marx - Jena 1841 . Introduced and edited by Erhard Lange, Ernst-Günther Schmidt, Günter Steiger, Inge Taubert with the assistance of Bolko Schweinitz. Berlin 1983
  • Ruth Schirmer : August Wilhelm Schlegel and his time. A life in Bonn . Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, Bonn 1986
  • Felix Bernhard: The Bonn legal scholar Ferdinand Walter (1794 - 1879) as a cantonist. A contribution to the history of canon law studies in the 19th century . Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 1986 (Dissertation Bonn 1984/85) ( Research on Canon Law, Vol. 1)
  • Manfred Schöncke: “A happy year in Bonn”? What we know about Karl Marx's first year at university . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 1994 , Hamburg 1994, pp. 239-255
  • Johann Friedrich von Schulte :  Walter, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 22-24.
  • Walter, Ferdinand . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 16, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 373–374.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 203-204.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Wentzcke: History of the German Burschenschaft , Volume 1: Early and Early Times up to the Karlsbader Resolutions , Carl Winters University Bookshop, Heidelberg 1919, p. 148
  2. ↑ Karl Marx studied with him in the winter semester 1835/36 "Encyclopedia and Methodology of Jurisprudence" and "Roman Legal History" . (Manfred Schöncke, p. 240).
  3. ↑ Karl Marx studied "German legal history" with him in the summer semester of 1836 . (Manfred Schöncke, p. 241).
  4. ↑ From my life , pp. 144 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1879
Place of death Bonn