Georg Melchior by Ludolf

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Georg Melchior Ludolf , from 1712 by Ludolf (* March 2, 1667 in Erfurt ; † February 1, 1740 in Wetzlar ; also Ludolph ), was a German lawyer at the Imperial Court of Wetzlar.

Life

Georg Melchior Ludolf comes from an Erfurt council family, his brother was Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf . He lost his father first, then his mother too, so that his education is mainly provided by his stepfather . Not yet 9 years old, he is said to have already given a free, Latin lecture on the Greek state in front of a learned audience. At the age of 14, he began studying history , philosophy and law at the University of Erfurt in 1681 . When the plague broke out in Erfurt in 1682, Ludolf continued his studies at the University of Jena , where he was mainly under the direct influence of Nikolaus Christoph Freiherr von Lyncker .

After completing his studies in 1685, he went to Vienna as a secretary with his uncle , the ducal Saxon-Eisenach supreme councilor Johann Jacob Schmid . There Ludolf came as a secretary to a prince whom he accompanied to his country estates in Bohemia and later to an imperial camp near Belgrade , where they defeated the Turks under Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden . For his prince he then went to Augsburg to attend the election of the German king and later emperor Joseph I and to handle official business. Then he returned to Vienna.

After Ludolf had returned from Vienna to Leipzig and Jena, through the mediation of his uncle Schmid he was able to hold various positions at the court of the dukes Johann Georg von Sachsen-Eisenach and Johann Wilhelm von Sachsen-Eisenach . After a few trips he moved up to the first service, and was now responsible for running government affairs and dealing with domestic, court and military affairs. In 1694 he married Sophia Dorothea Faligken , in 1697 he was appointed court counselor under Duke Wilhelm and was part of the government in Jena.

After Duke Georg died in 1698, Duke Wilhelm also took over his government, which changed Ludolf's duties again. Among other things, he was sent back to Vienna to see Emperor Leopold I to do business for the Duke there. When the assessor at the Reich Chamber of Commerce von Bernstorff died in 1710 , Ludolf asked his duke to propose him for this position. In parallel, he resumed legal studies in Jena, and completed his doctorate with the work De Jure foeminarum illustrium 1711 to Dr. iur. utr. His lectures at the University of Jena during this time met with admiration from the audience. In the same year he passed the assessor's examination with preference and moved to Wetzlar , where he was introduced to the college of the court on June 15, 1711 under Franz Adolf Dietrich von Ingelheim, President of the Court of Appeal, and took the place of assessor of the Upper Saxony district . In Wetzlar, Ludolf gave interested young people lessons in law. On May 22nd, 1721 he was introduced as a Electoral Palatinate Assessor after applying himself and changed his place within the Reich Chamber of Commerce. He stayed on it until his death.

Honors

By Emperor Charles VI. Ludolf was awarded the hereditary imperial nobility on January 12, 1712 in Frankfurt am Main for his services .

Works (selection)

De iure camerali commentatio systemica , Frankfurt am Main with Johann Maximilian von Sande, 1719, Reichskammergerichtsmuseum Wetzlar
  • Schediasma de Comitiorum statu , 1796.
  • Electa juris publici , part 1 1709 (further editions: 1711, 1718), part 2, 1710.
  • De Jure foeminarum illustrium , Jena 1711 (dissertation).
  • Delineatio juris cameralis brevis et perspicua , 1711; as Commentatio systematica de jure camerali increased 1719; enlarged by Johann Jacob von Zwierlein in 1741.
  • Corpus juris cameralis , continued by Ludolf in 1724.
  • Symphorema consultationum et decisionum forensium etc. etc. , Vol. I, 1731. Vol. II, 1734. Vol. III, 1739.
  • Variae observationes forenses part I 1735, part II. 1732, part III. 1734.
  • earundem supplementa , 1738.
  • Vitae viri perillustris GM de Ludolf etc from ipso scripta. Edidit etc. Heumannus , Göttingen 1740.

Works based on Ludolf:

  • Catalogus privilegiorum SRI Electorum, Principum ac Statuum de non appellando by Johann Wilhelm Ludolf (Reichsgerichtsprokurator, related to Ludolf), several editions.
  • Ludolf'schen Commentatio , 2nd edition 1765 by Chamber Court Assessor v. Plonies.
  • Ad Trigam Paragraphorum de Lud. comment. camer. , 1775 by Johann Ulrich Röder.

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personal data
SURNAME Ludolf, Georg Melchior from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludolph, Georg Melchior von; Ludolf, Georg Melchior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jurist and assessor at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1667
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1740
Place of death Wetzlar