Friedrich Wilhelm Tafinger

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Friedrich Wilhelm Tafinger on a painting by Matthias Heinrich Schnürer in the Tübingen Professorengalerie

Friedrich Wilhelm Tafinger (born November 2, 1726 in Tübingen ; † June 2, 1777 there ) was a German law scholar and university professor.

Friedrich Wilhelm Tafinger was the son of Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger and came from the Tafinger family . He studied law in Tübingen, was licentiate in 1749 and doctor of law in 1751 . He then attended several German universities, gave lectures in Jena on the Reich Chamber Court process and spent a long time in Wetzlar , Regensburg and Vienna . After his return to Tübingen he returned home there and in 1753 became a full professor of law. In the same year he greeted Duke Karl on his visit to Tübingen with the speech De praerogativis Almae Eberhardi a principibus concessis et a Ser. Duce Carolo auctis, published in 1754 as 4 ° print.

In 1759 Tafinger received the title of ducal council, in 1763 the dignity of Dr. phil. Tafinger mainly read Roman civil law according to the Elementis juris by Johann Gottlieb Heineccius and the Reich process, the study of which he significantly promoted, as he not only gave lectures and wrote a few treatises on this, but also a solid, widespread textbook in 1754 with the title Institutiones jurisprudentiae cameralis wrote that it was reissued in 1775 and featured a great wealth of literary remarks. Tafinger was a member of five learned societies, including the Accademia degli Agiati in Rovereto and the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences .

The legal scholar Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tafinger was his son.

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SURNAME Tafinger, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1777
Place of death Tübingen