Georg Wilhelm August Sell

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Georg Wilhelm August Sell (born October 6, 1804 in Darmstadt ; † March 25, 1848 there ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

The son of the Hessian court counselor and court attorney Georg Franz Sell studied law in Gießen and Heidelberg from 1822 to 1826 . In 1829 he received his doctorate, in 1830 his habilitation and was appointed private lecturer. In 1834 he was appointed full professor at the University of Zurich . There he taught Roman law and criminal law . In 1836 he married Emilie Stamm from Darmstadt.

In 1841 he returned to Giessen as a professor. In 1844 he turned down a call to the University of Rostock . With his brother Karl Sell , a professor in Bonn , he edited the “Yearbooks for the historical and dogmatic treatment of Roman law”. In 1848 he died after a long illness.

Works (selection)

  • About the right of the correus debendi to demand partial reimbursement of the correal debt paid from the other correus. A civilist attempt. (Habilitation thesis). Carl Lichtenberger, Giessen 1830.
  • With Karl Sell (ed.): Yearbooks for historical and dogmatic processing of Roman law. Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1841–1844.

literature

  • Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart:  Sell, Georg Wilhelm August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 680 f.
  • Herman Haupt (Ed.): Hessian Biographies. Work of the Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse. Second volume. Dr. Martin Sendet oHG, Walluf near Wiesbaden 1973. Unchanged reprint of the 1927 edition (Hessischer Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1927). ISBN 3-500-26820-X .
  • Rudolph Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). Volume 9. 2nd edition. Saur, Munich 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deanery Darmstadt-Stadt, baptismal register 1791–1806, p. 525
  2. ↑ Lt. DBE and Hess. Biographies: 1846.
  3. ↑ digitized
personal data
SURNAME Sell, Georg Wilhelm August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sell, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1848
Place of death Darmstadt