Franz von Egger

Knight Franz von Egger (born June 14, 1765 in Orth an der Donau , † November 2, 1851 in Graz ) was an Austrian lawyer and university professor.

Life

Franz von Egger initially attended school in Gmunden and the Episcopale et Academicum grammar school in Passau . He then began studying theology in Passau and attended the newly opened general seminar in Vienna in 1784 . In 1786 he gave up studying theology and turned to studying law at the University of Vienna , where he heard lectures by Franz von Zeiller , Joseph von Sonnenfels , Christoph Hupka (1750-1811), Johann Bernhard Fölsch (1757-1822) and more. Joseph von Sonnenfels also took him on as an assistant in his office.

In 1789 he received the professorship of political science at the University of Graz ; from 1796 to 1797 he taught natural and Roman law and in 1798 Austrian criminal and civil law ; from 1796 to 1797 he was also rector of the lyceum of the University of Graz. In 1803 he was appointed to succeed Professor Franz von Zeiller at the University of Vienna and in the same year he was appointed professor for natural law, general constitutional and international law and criminal law; In 1808 he also became a consultant for the then court commission in political law matters. In 1809 he was appointed government councilor .

After he retired after 41 years of service in 1829, he provisionally held his former post in 1835 because his successor Sebastian Jenull was appointed to the court commission set up to revise the criminal law.

Awards

In 1814 he was raised to the nobility and in 1829 to the knighthood .

Works

• Guide to Political Science . 1793
• The natural private law according to the textbook of the kk Hofrath F. Edlen von Zeiller about the same . Vienna and Trieste 1815.
• Natural public law according to the tenets of Baron von Martini on constitutional law with special consideration for the natural private law of the Imperial Councilor von Zeiller . Vienna and Trieste: Geistinger, 1810.
• Brief explanation of the Austrian code of law on crimes and serious police violations . Vienna; Trieste: Geistinger, 1817.
• Franz von Zeiller; Franz von Egger: Jus naturae privatum Francisci de Zeiller . Romae: Cl. Puccinelli, 1846.

He wrote articles in the Annalen der Literatur und Kunst , the Vaterländische Blätter, in Franz von Zeiller's contributions to legal studies ( on the punishment of crimes committed abroad, with regard to the Austrian penal code (Volume IV, p. 44) ) and in Vincenz August Wagner's magazine for Austrian legal scholarship ( on the crime of fraud through falsification of a public document under the Austrian penal laws (1826 (IS 1)) and comments on the Austrian ordinance of 1826 in consideration of the trade in slaves and their slaves Abuse (1829, p. 249).

literature

• Ronald Roggen: «Restoration» - battle cry and swear word . University Press Freiburg Switzerland 1999, p. 137 f.
• Egger, Franz von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 222.