Friedrich Gottfried Houck

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Friedrich Gottfried Houck

Friedrich Gottfried Houck (also: Fredericus Godefridus Houk, Friedrich Gotfried Huck ; born August 19, 1708 in Burgsteinfurt , † June 28, 1767 in Utrecht ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The son of high school professor August Houck and his wife Anna Wilhelmine Bachmann, the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Dr. jur. utr. Gottfried Bachmann and his wife Anna von Wildenraet had attended the city school in his hometown and the Arnoldinum high school there. After receiving extensive basic training, he enrolled at the University of Groningen on December 19, 1726 to study law. His formative teachers there were Jean Barbeyrac and Peter de Toullieu (1669–1734) for natural law and Arnold Rotger (1684–1752) for civil law. In 1733 he moved to the University of Utrecht , where he attended the history lectures with Karl Andreas Duker and was familiarized with Roman antiquity under the guidance of Arnold Drakenborch .

His most influential teacher in law was Everard Otto , under whom he had disputed in 1733 with the treatise de officio Praefecti vigilem circa incendia (Utrecht 1733) and under whom he disputed on November 5, 1734 with the legal treatise de rationibus veterum jctorum falso suspectis (Utrecht 1734, Bremen 1769) obtained his doctorate in law. He then returned to his hometown, where he became a professor at the Arnoldinum high school. On June 23, 1738 he moved to the Illustre Athenaeum grammar school in Deventer as a professor of law , which he took up with the speech pro legislatoria Justiniani Imperatoris prudentia .

After he had already been considered a professor at the University of Harderwijk in 1744, after the death of Abraham Wieling, the curators of the University of Utrecht appointed him professor of civil law on May 9, 1746, which he held on June 20, 1746 with the speech de proprio obligationum jure, ex variis causarum figuris . In this capacity he also participated in the organizational tasks of the Utrecht University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1748/49 , which office he resigned with the speech Quaenam verosimilior sit sententia de secundo capite Legis Aquiliae .

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Houck, Friedrich Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgsteinfurt
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1767
Place of death Utrecht