Friedrich Wilhelm Leyser (lawyer)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Leyser (born January 20, 1658 in Halle (Saale) , † January 4, 1720 in Magdeburg ) was a German legal scholar and municipal syndic of Magdeburg.

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The son of Magdeburg Dompredigers Friedrich Wilhelm Leyser and Christina Margarethe Malsius (1631-1681) studied for his school days at the country Pforta at the universities of Leipzig, Erfurt and Rinteln initially philosophy and theology and graduated in 1678 with testing to Master from. In Leipzig Leyser was for his brother Polykarp Leyser III. also worked several times as a respondent . On the recommendation of a state minister in the Principality of Calenberg , Leyser then studied law at the University of Hanover . He then went on study trips as court master with a certain Freiherr von Elz and, on his return, passed his doctor juris utriusque exams under Hermann Zoll in Rinteln and Christoph Andreas Schubart in Erfurt .

This was followed by several assignments as legal counsel , including at various monasteries and foundations, before Leyser was in the reign of Elector Friedrich III. was appointed to the Electoral Brandenburg Council. In 1703 he finally followed a call from the Magdeburg city council, where he was entrusted with the task of city syndic. He held this office until his death in 1720. His cousin Johann Christoph Olearius gave his funeral sermon .

Friedrich Wilhelm Leyser was married to Dorothea Eleonore Seyffarth (* 1664), with whom he had several children. Two of his most famous grandchildren were the Kgl. British Councilor and personal physician to Caroline Mathilde of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover Polykarp Friedrich von Leyser (1724–1795) and the botanist Friedrich Wilhelm von Leysser .

Works (selection)

  • Leyser, Friedrich Wilhelm / Leyser, Polycarp III. "Hala Saxon" : Disputatio politica De foederibus cum infidelibus , Leipzig 1676
  • Conclusiones selectas circa jura connubiorum , Rinteln, 1683
  • De reuisione catastri, pro gradu disputiret , Erfurt, 1685

Literature and Sources

  • Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel: Historical-critical messages from deceased scholars , part 1, page 458; Cornish Bookshop 1753

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personal data
SURNAME Leyser Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and municipal lawyer of Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1720
Place of death Magdeburg