Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel

Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel

Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel (also Frederik Willem ; also von Pestel ; born January 7, 1724 in Rinteln ; † October 16, 1805 in Leiden ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Pestel came from a family who fled England to Germany during the Protestant persecution under Queen Maria . Many of the family members later became lawyers. His great-grandfather David Pestel (1603–1684) was a professor of feudal law and the Codex in Rinteln. His father Friedrich Ulrich Pestel (1691–1764) was also professor of ethics and rights at the University of Rinteln. His mother was Elisabeth Helene Pestel, b. Lenderking (* 1698 in Rinteln; † December 20, 1751 ibid) was the daughter of the Rinteln mayor Ludoph Wilhelm Lederking.

In 1739 Pestel began studying at the University of Rinteln and later moved to the University of Göttingen . He returned to Rinteln in 1745 with the treatise de successione inter conjuges ab intestanto (Rinteln 1745) licentiate in law. In 1747 he was appointed professor of ethics in Rinteln and - after he had obtained his doctorate in law in 1748 - he became full professor of law in Rinteln and a special colleague of his father that same year.

After he was appointed to the government council in 1762, he was appointed professor of natural and constitutional law at the University of Leiden in 1763 . In the years 1765/66, 1777/78 and 1788/89 he was rector of this alma mater . In 1792 he was raised to hereditary nobility by Emperor Franz in Vienna in recognition of his services to jurisprudence in the empire . In 1789 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

For political reasons, because he had sided with the supporters of the heir of Orange in the conflicts of the Batavian Republic , Pestel was dismissed from his employment on August 8, 1795, while retaining his professor's salary of 3,000 guilders. He returned to Germany, where he lived in Celle with his uncle, Senior Appealer Justin Ferdinand Friedrich Petzel . After the unrest subsided, his professorship was re-established on February 6, 1802, and Pestel returned to Leiden in 1803.

Works

• Diss. De Candore. Rinteln 1740 ( online )
• Diss. De cauta applicatione paroemiae: fidem frangenti fides frangatur eidem. Rinteln 1742
• Diss. Inaug. Sistens Theses de sucessione inter Conjuges ab intestato Rinteln 1745 also appeared under the title Disquisitio juris Germ. De fucc. Inter conjuges ab intest. Rinteln 1745
• Prog. Animadverss. Quaedam ad C. Taciti Germaniam. Rinteln 1747 ( online )
• Elementa juris publ. universalis. 1748-1752
• Prog. De natura legis actionum. Rinteln 1748
• Prog. De causis exitus felicis belli injusti. Rinteln 1748
• Prog. In quo pecuniam, qua feudum emtum est, in commune conferri debere, asseritur. Rinteln 1749
• Prog. De charactere verae virtutis. Rinteln 1750
• Prog. De modo computandi prorogationem dierum fatalium. Rinteln 1750
• Diss. Ad edictum Carbonianum. Rinteln 1751
• De limitibus imperii eminentis. Rinteln 1751
• Quaestiones juris publici de Homagio. Rinteln 1752
• Commentatio ad tabulas immunitatum academicarum, quas a Friderico V. Comite Palatino Rheni, SRI Vicario, Ernestus, princeps & comes Schaumburgicus a. 1619 obtinuit. Rinteln 1752
• Prog. De domicilio orginis ad L. pen D. de Senatoribus. Rinteln 1752
• Diss. Fons errorum de odio usurarum legitimo investigatus et obstructus. Rinteln 1753
• Progr. In quo jus criminalis universale delineatinem sistens. Rinteln 1753
• Justitia et benignitas legume Germanicarum erga peregrinos examinata. Rinteln 1755
• Disp. Explanationem juris clientelaris Schaumburgici de obligatione successoris feudalis ad solvendum aes alienum haereditarum. Rinteln 1755
• Prog. De justitia regnantium remunerante. Rinteln 1756
• Prolegomenta juris naturae et gentium. Lemgo 1756
• Diss. Inaugur. De herede defuntum in debitis pecuniariis non simpliciter repraesentante. Lemgo 1757
• Prog. I. animadverss. Forenses de pretio permutationis numorum. Rinteln 1757
• Prog. De eo, quod inter jus et rationem belli interest. Rinteln 1758
• Diss. Principia jur. publ. universalis de re judiciaria constituenda delineate. Rinteln 1758
• Prog. De jure actoris et rei in causis civilibus aequali. Rinteln 1759
• Thoughts of the legitimacy of the imperial estates land posts and the indisputability of this exclusive princely tax imperial post monopoly. Rinteln 1759
• Diss. Selecta capita doctrinae de servitute commerciorum. Rinteln 1760
• Prog. De domino maris mediterranei Romanis temere adscripto. Rinteln 1760
• Diss. Selecta ad illustrandum jus publici et privatum Lippiacum. Rinteln 1762
• Diss. De servitude commerciorum. Of the willingness to act and servitude. Leipzig 1763 ( online )
• Oratio aditialis de damnis ex neglectu juris publici in civitates redundantibus. Leiden 1763
• Oratio de studio boni communis lege civitatum prima. Leiden 1766
• Fundamenta jurisprudentiae naturalis delineate in usum auditorium. Leiden 1772 ( online ), 1774, Utrecht 1776, Leiden 1788, Leiden 1806, French: Les Fondemens de la Prudence naturelle. Utrecht 1774 ( online ), Dutch Utrecht 1783
• Oratio de literarum studiis florentibus pro eo, quo a populorum rectoribus cohonorantur, pretio. Leiden 1775
• Oratio de differentiis praecipuis in veteri ac recentiori gentium Europaearum politica. Leiden 1778
• Commentarii de republica Batava. Leiden 1782 ( online ), German by Johann August Mebes: Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel's complete news from the Republic of Holland: collected from authentic sources. Berlin 1784 ( online )
• Brevis expositio reipublicae Batavae, in usum auditorum. Leiden 1789
• Oratio de functibus, qui ex jurisprudential perfectori ad populos Europaeos seculo XVIII pervenerunt. Leiden 1789
• Diss. De praesidiis libertatis publicae. Leiden 1789 ( online )
• Selecta capita juris gentium maritime. Leiden 1789

literature

• Christoph Weidlich : Lexicon or brief descriptions of lives of all legal scholars living now in alphabetical order. Johann Heinrich Grunert, Halle 1766, p. 133 ( online ).
• Christoph Weidlich: Biographical news from legal scholars living now in Germany. Hemmerdeische Buchhandlung, Halle 1781, p. 175 ( online ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. JHC Griesbach, Kassel 1795, Vol. 10, p. 301 ( online ).
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1798, vol. 6, p. 60 ( online ); 1811, vol. 15, p. 24 ( online ).
• Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1816, Vol. 5, Col. 1971–1975.
• Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1843, 3rd section, 18th part, p. 322 ( online ).
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. JJ van Brederode Verlag, Haarlem 1872, vol. 15, p. 218 ( online , Dutch).
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Pestel, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 461 f.
• J. van Kuyk: PESTEL (Frederik Willem) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 3. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 968–969 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1914, reprinted unchanged).