Friedrich Gottlieb Struve

Friedrich Gottlieb Struve (born November 10, 1676 in Jena , † July 23, 1752 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer and university professor .

Life

Friedrich Gottlieb Struve was born as the fifth son or eighteenth child of Georg Adam Struve and his second wife Susanne, née. Berlich, born, seven more children were born after him. His nephews were the physicians Ernst Gotthold Struve , personal physician to the Empress of Russia Elisabeth , and Friedrich Christian Struve (1717–1780), professor at the University of Kiel .

He attended grammar school in Halle (Saale) from 1689 to 1696 and then began studying law with Johann Samuel Stryk at the University of Jena , which he continued two years later in 1698 at the University of Halle .

After completing his studies, he went to Westphalia in 1700 , where he stayed for two years in unspecified businesses.

In 1703, with his inaugural dissertation Von Badern und Badestuben in Jena, he acquired the Dr. jur. and held lectures on civil law as a private lecturer at the University of Jena .

In 1712 he was appointed court attorney in Jena and in 1722 by Duke Ernst Friedrich I of Saxony-Hildburghausen he was appointed councilor and professor at the illustrious grammar school in Hildburghausen and state syndic . In 1723, while retaining the professorship, he was promoted to the government and consistorial council .

In 1725 he accepted a call to the University of Kiel as a Schleswig-Holstein councilor; There he was appointed the first professor of legal practice, canon law and pundits as well as full professor of his faculty, and he was also given the title of judicial councilor . He remained in this office until his death.

In the years 1728, 1734, 1738, 1744 and 1750 he held the office of Vice-Rector .

Friedrich Gottlieb Struve was married to Johanna Dorothea († June 19, 1742), a daughter of Wilhelm Werner. The names of her children are known:

• Anton Sebastian von Struve , diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire .

Fonts (selection)

• Adrian Beier ; Friedrich Gottlieb Struve: General trade, art, mountain and handicraft lexicon . Jena 1722.

literature

• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Struve, Friedrich Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 676.    
• Friedrich Gottlieb Struve in Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten: The now living learned Europe . Braunschweig 1735. pp. 651 f.

Web links

• Friedrich Gottlieb Struve in the Kiel list of scholars .
• Writings of Friedrich Gottlieb Struve in the German Digital Library .