Franz Philipp Broadspeaker

Franz Philipp Breitsprecher , ennobled as von Breitenstern , in literature also as Franz Philipp Breitsprecher von Breitenstern (* July 1739 in Bergen auf Rügen ; † November 27, 1798 in Wismar ) was a German lawyer, university professor and judge at the Wismar Higher Tribunal .

Life

After attending school in Bergen, where his father was mayor, Franz Philipp Breitsprecher studied at the University of Greifswald from 1756 . First, he studied with Peter Ahlwardt philosophy and mathematics, then at Johann Engelbrecht Brandan law . He continued his law studies in 1759 at the University of Kiel under Dorn and Winter and later at the University of Göttingen under Heinrich Christian von Selchow , Gottfried Achenwall , Johann Stephan Pütter and Georg Ludwig Böhmer, among others .

Later he was in Bergen until 1763 - in the same year he received his doctorate as Doctor iuris utriusque - and then worked as a lawyer in Greifswald. In 1769 he was appointed professor of law at Greifswald University and in 1772 he was appointed assessor of the Royal Consistory . In 1776 he went to Wismar, where he became an assessor at the upper tribunal. In 1788 he was raised to the Swedish nobility and at the same time appointed vice-president of the tribunal. He held this office until the end of his life. In 1795 he was accepted into the North Star Order .

One of his daughters, Ulrike von Breitenstern (1776-1828), became known as a musician. His son, Karl von Breitenstern (1777-1825), was mayor of Wismar. With his son, the bailiff and government secretary Gustav von Breitenstern in Dömitz , the noble von Breitenstern family went out.

Fonts (selection)

Emanuel Friedrich Hagemeister (ed.): From the Querel, according to the royal. Tribunal order for the Swedish-Pomeranian states. 1806.
The Swedish-Pomeranian tertiary law. (Manuscript).
Collection of legal cases. (Manuscript).

literature

Adolf Häckermann : Broadspeaker, Franz Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 303 f.
Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt : News of the life and writings of neo-Pomeranian-Rügen scholars from the beginning of the eighteenth century to 1822. Vol. 1, Friedrich Wilhelm Kunike, Greifswald 1824, pp. 29–31.

Individual evidence

↑ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Tiedemann, Rostock 1864, pp. 37-38 ( Google books ).

Web links

Literature about Franz Philipp Breitsprecher in the state bibliography MV

personal data
SURNAME	Broadspeaker, Franz Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Broadspeaker from Breitenstern, Franz Philipp; Breitenstern, Franz Philipp von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and judge at the Wismar Higher Tribunal
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mountains on Rügen
DATE OF DEATH	November 27, 1798
Place of death	Wismar

[1] Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Tiedemann, Rostock 1864, pp. 37-38 ( Google books ).