Friedrich Ernst Carl Mereau

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Friedrich Ernst Carl Mereau (born April 11, 1765 in Gotha ; † May 18, 1825 in Jena ) was a German legal scholar, librarian, judge and university professor.

Life

Mereau studied law and philosophy at the University of Jena and graduated with a master's degree in philosophy and a Dr. jur. from. He initially became an attorney at the Court of Justice in Jena and librarian at the university library .

In 1795 he became ao. Professor of Law and received a full professorship in Jena in 1800. In 1803 Mereau was appointed commissioner and bailiff in Themar , 1806 senior bailiff in Saalfeld .

From there he reported in writing to the sovereign Duke Ernst I about French troop movements during the French era . This news was intercepted and Mereau was sentenced to death as a spy by a French court martial. However, he succeeded in being represented as a lodge brother to the French military judges, who probably also belonged to lodges, to have the proceedings reopened and the acquittal.

He died of pneumonia after a lengthy judicial activity.

family

Mereau's first marriage from 1793 to the romantic poet Sophie Mereau , who divorced him in 1801, was unhappy . In 1801 he married the daughter of the manufacturer Herold in his second marriage.

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personal data
SURNAME Mereau, Friedrich Ernst Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German law teacher and judge
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1825
Place of death Jena