Franz Xaver Nippel from Weyerheim

Franz Xaver Nippel , since 1861 Nippel von Weyerheim (born January 29, 1787 in Weyer Castle in Gmunden ; † March 8, 1862 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer.

Life

Franz Xaver Nippel von Weyerheim was the son of an administrator who managed the boys' orphanage, which was housed in Weyer Castle.

He attended the Kremsmünster grammar school and showed a penchant for mathematical sciences; he intended to study mining, but then entered the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster as a novice in 1805 . Because monastery life did not appeal to him, he left the monastery the following year and began studying theology in the episcopal seminary in Linz ; When he lost his father and mother in quick succession in 1807, he finished his theology studies and began studying law in Linz.

Due to the French invasion , he was forced to finish his studies in 1809 and to take up a job in a rural law firm, so that he was employed as clerk and at the same time as teacher to the son of the senior civil servant in the rule of St. Martin in the Innviertel . There he was able to continue his private studies and be trained to exercise the office of judge.

After the Innviertel was ceded to Bavaria in the Peace of Schönbrunn in 1810 , he no longer wanted to serve under the new government and returned to Linz in 1813. He got a job as a concept intern at the magistrate and in 1814 got the post of clerk in Baumgartenberg in the Mühlviertel ; shortly afterwards he became the syndic of the princely market in Mauthausen .

At the beginning of 1816 he was appointed administrator of the municipal property in Linz and in 1818 a magistrate's council, where he was given the task of compiling a collection of all trade regulations for Austria above the Enns from the provincial government.At the beginning of 1821, when the judicial business in Linz passed to the magistrate, he was Appointed Council Ministers to the newly created Urban and Land Law and promoted to Secretary two years later; In 1825 he was appointed to the council for land law in Styria .

From 1827 to 1830 he was mayor of the city of Graz ; as such, he reorganized the administration of the Graz magistrate. In 1832 he received the office of general director of all high schools in Styria, but in the same year he was promoted to councilor at the court of appeal in Brno . He stayed there until he was transferred to the Court of Appeal in Vienna in 1838 and was promoted to a higher regional judge after it was renamed a higher regional court. After his appointment as Hofrat in the same year, he remained at the Higher Regional Court of Vienna until the end of his life.

Writing

One of his first writings was an essay on freedom of the press and Büchercensur , who in the 1820s in that of John Paul Harl in Erlangen published Kameral correspondents generally appeared. In the Vaterländische Blätter , published in Vienna, he drew a comparison between the new Austrian civil code and the French civil code . In the legal journals appearing in Austria, such as Karl Joseph Pratobevera's The Materials for Law and Justice in the Austrian States , Vincenz August Wagner's Journal for Austrian Legal Scholarship and Ignaz Wildner von Maithstein's Der Jurist , numerous articles were published by him; these were listed in Moritz von Stubenrauch's Bibliotheca juridica under the numbers 2789 to 2825.

His main work was the nine-volume explanation of the general civil code for the entire German states of the Austrian monarchy, with special consideration of practical needs .

Honors

• On August 21, 1855 he was given the title and character of a real councilor.
• On May 13, 1861 he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown III. Class excellent, connected with this was the elevation to the knighthood with the predicate of Weyerheim .
• He was granted honorary citizenship in the cities of Graz and Brno .

Fonts (selection)

• From the interpretation and application of the laws, or attempting a commentary on the §§. 6 and 7 of the general bürg. Law book . Linz 1822.
• Manual to facilitate the application of Part II of the Criminal Code, for use by those officials who deal with the administration of justice for serious police violations . Linz 1824.
• Presentation of the rights of the spouses in relation to their property . Linz 1824.
• Presentation of the rights and obligations of guardians, curators, guardianship and curatels authorities . Linz 1825.
• Handbook for the knowledge of the private rights of the subjects of the Austrian imperial state and the way in which they can be preserved and enforced . Vienna 1827.
• Explanation of the legal provisions on the compulsory part and the crediting in the same, according to the Austrian civil code . Linz 1828.
• Explanation of the general civil code for the entire German states of the Austrian monarchy, with special consideration of practical needs . Gratz 1830-1839.
• Explanation of the general court order of May 1, 1781, together with an appendix, containing the discussion of the deviations from the West Galician court order, on the basis of the commentary from the court councilor JG Edlen von Kees . Vienna 1845 and 1847.
• Explanation of the very highest regulation of October 18, 1845 on the summary procedure in civil disputes . Vienna 1848.
• Materials on the reform of Austrian legislation in the field of justice . Vienna 1850.

Literature (selection)

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Nippel von Weyerheim, Franz Xaver . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 20th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1869, p. 363 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Franz Xaver Nippel from Weyerheim . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon .
• Franz Xaver Nippel from Weyerheim . In: Homepage City of Graz .