Gabriel Schweder

Gabriel Schweder on a portrait by Georg Kilian (1683–1745)

Gabriel Schweder (born May 18, 1648 in Köslin in Western Pomerania ; † April 30, 1735 in Tübingen ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

He was a member of the patrician family Schweder, which was widespread in the Netherlands, Denmark and Pomerania. The family is said to have originally come from Scotland and been noble, but this cannot be proven. The family has been documented in Köslin in Pomerania since around 1450; here she also made mayor. Gabriel Schweder's father was a church provisional in Köslin, his mother's name was Catharina Cochen.

He attended the Casimirianum high school in Coburg in 1664/65 and then studied law in Jena and Tübingen . In 1674 he received his doctorate in both rights. In 1677 he became a ducal Württemberg councilor and assessor at the court in Tübingen. In 1681 he was appointed full professor for constitutional and feudal law at the University of Tübingen . In 1703 he received the diploma of a Comes palatinus from Emperor Leopold I for a thesis paper on the claims of the empire to the Duchy of Milan . Schweder was a cousin of Christoph Hermann von Schweder .

Works (selection)

• Introductio in jus publicum Imperii Romano-Germnanici novissimum , Tübingen 1681 (10 editions until 1733).
• Ius sacratissimi imperatoris et imperii in ducatum Mediolanensem , Tübingen 1702.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd Edition, Vol. 9, Munich 2008, p. 335.
• Frank-Steffen Schmidt:  Schweder, Johann Gabriel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 37 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Schweder, Gabriel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 323-325.
• Johann Friedrich Jugler : Contributions to the legal biography , Vol. 5, Leipzig 1779 , pp. 108–122.

Web links

• Works by and about Gabriel Schweder  in the German Digital Library