Georg Stephan Wiesand

Georg Stephan Wiesand (born May 1, 1736 in Vohenstrauss , † May 22, 1821 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Pastor Johann Jacob Wiesand's son was orphaned early. He attended school in Sulzbach and the St. Sebald high school in Nuremberg . In 1754 he went to the University of Jena , changed to the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1756 and on February 12, 1757 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. He then concentrated on studying law, was on May 9, 1760 Bachelor of Law and received his doctorate on November 13, 1760 to the doctorate in law.

In 1763 he became an attorney at the Leipzig Court of Justice and in 1764 an associate professor of law at the Leipzig Academy. In the winter semester of 1765 he went to the University of Wittenberg as a full professor of the institutions , which position he took up on April 7, 1766, moved up over the years to the top positions and took over the professorship of decretals in 1790. In addition, Wiesand had been in charge of an extraordinary position in the Wittenberg consistory since July 23, 1783, was a councilor of appeals in March 1787 and was director of this institution since 1790.

In the summer semester of 1771, 1777 and 1785 he was also the rector's office of the Wittenberg Academy and was an assessor at the Wittenberg court and Schöppenstuhl. In 1787 the Saxon elector gave him the character and rank of a really secret council of appeals. When the Wittenberg Academy ceased teaching in 1813, he moved to Halle (Saale), where he was retired in 1816 and remained as a private individual until the end of his life. Wiesand died in Halle on May 22, 1821, at the age of 85. He was buried in Halle's Stadtgottesacker , his grave is in crypt arch No. 28. He was the father of the doctor of law and later member of the Saxon state parliament Georg Friedrich Wiesand (1777–1842).

Selection of works

• Oratio de ratione Romanorum literas docendi . Jena 1755.
• Commentatio de usu artis citicae in jure Germanico. Jena 1755.
• Commentatio de quibusdam suburbiorum iurisbus. Jena and Leipzig 1756.
• Commentatio de Carolo Magno artium liberalium restauratore summo. Jena 1756.
• Commentatio de stylo, quo leges Germanicae vetustae exaratae sunt. Leipzig 1756.
• Diss. De officio interpretis circa seclam scriptoris. Leipzig 1756.
• Epistola ad I. Heumannum de causis neglecti iuris Germanici. Leipzig 1757.
• De jure naturae et gentium libri duo. Leipzig 1760.
• Diss. De orgine et naturalegis Salicae. Leipzig 1760.
• Diss. De nonnullis coronae nuptialis juribus. Leipzig 1761.
• Legal manual. Hildburghausen 1762.
• Diss. De ortu et progressu seruitutis secundum ius naturae et cicuile. Leipzig 1762.
• Diss. De praerogatiuis ac eximiis iuribus Promarchionis illustrissimi, a bailiff eiusque vicarii perpetui, the chief of the office in Marchionatu Lusatiae superioris. Leipzig 1762.
• Diss. De osculis iurium symbolis. Leipzig 1764.
• Diss. De praesumtione contra usum geradae apud ignobiles in Lusatia interiore. Leipzig 1764.
• Vindiciae L. 1. § ID de iustitia et jure. Leipzig 1764.
• Diss. De raione interpretandi privilegia nundinarum solemnium. Leipzig 1764.
• Progr. De prisco honore domino a vasallo praestando iure ex antiquo repetendo. Leipzig 1764.
• De orgine et natura fidelitatis vasalliticae, dissertation. Leipzig 1764.
• Diss. De censu capitis. Leipzig 1765.
• Progr. De jure germanico melius perficiendo. Wittenberg 1766.
• Diss pacis commendatio. Wittenberg 1767.
• Progr. De usu L. a. C. de rescindend vendit. recte aestimando. Wittenberg 1769.
• Diss. De potestate dominica ex jure Lusatiae superioris. Wittenberg 1769.
• Diss. De re Germanorum iudiciaria. Wittenberg 1773.
• Progr. De concursu vicem debitoris obaerati sustorien. Wittenberg 1775.
• Observationes iuris Romani et Saxonici. Specim I-VIII. Wittenberg 1775-1778.
• De causis vim et auctoritatem legum minuentibus. Wittenberg 1778.
• Progr. De repudio ob metum mali matrimonii. Wittenberg 1778.

literature

• Karl Heinrich Dzondi (Schundenius): Memories of the festive days of the third foundation ceremony of the Academy in Wittenberg. P. 82.
• Christian Siegmund Georgi : Annales Academiae Vitebergensis 1655-1755. Pp. 25, 28, 373 (printed for 473).
• Wittenberger Wochenblatt. 1783, p. 279; 1790, p. 63.
• New Wittenberger Wochenblatt. 1807, p. 46.
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Wiesand, Georg Stephan . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 427-429.
• Nikolaus Müller : The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg. Evangelical bookstore Ernst Holtermann , Magdeburg 1912.
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917.
• Friedrich August Weiz : The learned Saxony or directory of those in the Churfürstl. Saxon. and incorporated countries of contemporary writers and their writings. Schneider, Leipzig 1780, p. 277.