Georg Beyer

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Copper engraving by Georg Beyer

Georg Beyer (born September 10, 1665 in Leipzig , † August 21, 1714 in Wittenberg ) was a German lawyer and law teacher.

Life

Beyer was born as the son of the actuary at the higher court in Leipzig Georg Beyer and his wife Regina (née Straubig). He studied philosophy and law in his hometown with Christian Thomasius , from 1685 in Frankfurt (Oder) with Samuel Stryk , from 1687 again in Leipzig and in 1693 became a doctor of law . As a private lecturer, he initially earned his living before he was appointed Professor of Law at the University of Wittenberg in 1706 .

In 1707 he was accepted into the law faculty, as an assessor at the court and in the Schöppenstuhl . In 1713 he received the third professorship (Digestum vetus) at the Faculty of Law. After his teacher Thomasius, he was the second lecturer who treated German law separately from Roman law and thus introduced it as a new, independent discipline in academic lectures. Instead of the Pandects , he based his lecture on the Sachsenspiegel and other medieval German legal sources.

In his work "De utilitate lectionum academicarum in juris Germanici capita" (Wittenberg 1707) he first announced lectures on German law, which he held three times a week. This resulted in his "Delineatio juris Germanici", which was published four years after his death in 1718 by Michael Heinrich Gribner up to the 14th chapter of the 2nd book. In the following editions, taken care of by Christian Gottfried Hoffmann , the remaining eight chapters with the entire third book were added from Beyer's documents (1723, 1729, 1740). This first imperfect attempt was of lasting merit for the foundation of the science of German private law . Beyer also worked on Roman civil law, feudal law , natural law and criminal law in short textbooks that were published several times.

A collection of his dissertations was published in Leipzig in 1723, where he had given lectures as a private teacher on legal knowledge of books. His work "Schediasma de utili ac necessaria Aucm Juridicorum notitia", which he published from the legal discussions in 1698, 1701 and 1705, was reprinted in 1726 and later continued until 1758 by Gottlob August Jenichen , Karl Ferdinand Hommel and Heinrich Gottlob Franke .

Beyer was married to Regina Elisabeth Grosse from 1693 and to Dorothea Sophia Braun (widowed Krause) from 1710. From the first marriage he had four sons and three daughters and from the second marriage a daughter.

Works

  • Schediasma de utili ac necessaria Aucm Juridicorum notitia . Leipzig 1698–1705. (continued by Gottlob August Jenichen, Karl Ferdinand Hommel and Heinrich Gottlob Franke until 1758).
  • De utilitate lectionum academicarum in juris Germanici capita . Wittenberg 1707.

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SURNAME Beyer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and law teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig ,
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1714
Place of death Wittenberg