Georg Christian Gebauer

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Georg Christian Gebauer (born October 26, 1690 in Breslau ; † January 29, 1773 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar , historian and university professor .

Life

After visiting the Elizabeth High School in Wroclaw, Gebauer began 1710 in Leipzig the humanities . In 1712 he first moved to the University of Altdorf before continuing his legal and historical studies with Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling at the University of Halle . At the urging of Mayor Gottfried Gräve , Gebauer returned to Leipzig in 1715 to continue teaching the mayor's son. In 1717 his master's degree in Leipzig followed, and in 1721 he became an assessor at the philosophical faculty. At the University of Erfurt Gebauer received his doctorate iuris in 1723 . Four years later, in 1727, he was appointed full professor of common and Saxon feudal law in Leipzig . In 1730 he accepted a position as an assessor at the local court of higher courts.

Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen became aware of him and Johann Jakob Schmauß through his publications and his apprenticeship with Gundling . In 1734 Münchhausen brought Gebauer to the newly founded University of Göttingen , where he became professor juris primarius with the title of court counselor. At the same time, he was supposed to run the business of a prorector in the first year of university. In 1747 he was given the title of a secret judicial councilor and in 1755 he was appointed professor in the verdict college of the law faculty. Gebauer covered a wide range of lectures, so he read the history of law, law of nature according to Gundling, European history according to its outline, pandects according to Ludovici, about the text of institutions according to his Ordo institutionum and feudal law.

Gebauer occupied an important position in the intellectual environment of his time. Lessing dealt with his historical work in 52 letter, concerning the latest literature , he was known to the poet and literary critic Johann Christoph Gottsched , he was a student of Christian Thomasius and he also acted as editor of the second edition of Lohenstein's Arminius novel, the appeared in 1731 and still had many readers at that time.

Works (selection)

  • Notea on Johann Schilter's institutions of feudal law. 1st edition. 1728; led to a long-term conflict with Johann Peter von Ludewig to which he cultivated a natural opposition as a student of Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling and Christian Thomasius .
  • Editor and author of an extensive and knowledgeable foreword to Daniel Casper von Lohenstein : Generous Feldherr Arminius and Thussnelda. Another thoroughly improved and increased edition, 4 volumes, Leipzig 1731.
  • Outline of a complicated history of the most distinguished European empires and states. 1st edition. 1733.
  • Mr. Richard's life and memorable deeds, chosen Roman emperors. Leipzig 1744.
  • Ordo institutionum. Goettingen 1752.
  • Narratio de Henrico Brenkmanno, de manuscriptis Brenkmannianis etc. 1764.
  • Vestigia juris Germanici antiquissima in Cornelii Taciti Germania obvia. Goettingen 1766.
  • Corpus juris civilis. posthumously 1776–1797 by Georg August Spangenberg

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Bender: Lohenstein's "Arminius". Comments on the “Höfisch-Historischen” novel. In: Reception and production between 1570 and 1730. Festschrift Günther Weydt. Bern / Munich 1972, DNB 740131397 , pp. 381-410, p. 382.
personal data
SURNAME Gebauer, Georg Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmauß, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1773
Place of death Goettingen