Gottfried Ernst Schumann

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Gottfried Ernst Schumann (born November 20, 1779 in Döbeln , † May 5, 1846 in Dresden ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

The son of a tax official had attended grammar school in Freiberg from 1791 . On March 24, 1798 he enrolled to study law at the University of Wittenberg . He finished this on March 23, 1801 with the successfully passed examination as a notary. On June 5, 1801, he began working as a notary at the regional court in Wittenberg, where he was further instructed by the then regional court director Gottlob Friedrich Christoph Jungwirth (born November 5, 1768 in Liebschwitz; † December 7, 1825 in Wittenberg). Due to health problems he continued his education 1802 in Leipzig, where he was on November 2, 1802 at the University of Leipzigenrolled. He completed his training there until the beginning of 1803. He then returned to Wittenberg, where he took a position as a lawyer on March 11, 1803 and on April 9, 1803 with the work Commentatio ad Decisorum Saxonicam 49 de Ao. 1661 to the doctor of law doctorate . On September 12 of the same year he was appointed associate assessor of the law faculty of the Wittenberg University, on March 12, 1807 he was made associate professor there and on June 8, 1812 full professor of the new foundation with a seat and vote in the Corpore academico.

Associated with this, he had a seat at the Wittenberger Schöppenstuhl , was appointed court judge on July 1, 1812, and assessor at the regional court of the Margraviate of Niederlausitz in Lübben on June 29, 1813 . Since the Wittenberg University disbanded after the Wars of Liberation , he accepted a call on August 25, 1815 as a councilor of appeal in Dresden. After serving in several legislative commissions, he was appointed a secret Judicial Council on November 21, 1831, and President of the State Court in 1835. Schumann was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Civil Merit on June 27, 1826 , the Commander's Cross on June 23, 1838 and the Order's Grand Cross on January 4, 1844 . On October 30, 1834, he became a member of the Saxon Federal Arbitration Court and died of a sudden pulmonary embolism . He was buried on May 8, 1846.

Schumann was married. The marriage has two sons and three daughters. One son died before the father. Marie Ernestine Schumann (born January 17, 1816 in Dresden; † July 10, 1878 ibid) is known from the daughters, and married Theobald von Oer on October 12, 1840 in Dresden .

Works

  • Commentatio ad Decisorum Saxonicam 49 de Ao. 1661. Wittenberg 1803
  • Variae juris quaestiones. Wittenberg 1805
  • About the mandate of April 5th, 1783, concerning the cancellation of debts in the army. In: Zachariaes Sächsischen Annalen. Volume 1, 1806, pp. 285-288

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3. Halle (Saale) 1966, p. 430
  2. ^ New necrology of the Germans. 3rd year: 1825, volume 2, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1827, p. 1590 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Georg Erler: The younger matriculation of the University of Leipzig 1559-1809. Edited as a person and place register and supplemented with additions from the doctoral lists. Verlag Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig 1909, p. 380, Sp. 1
  4. ↑ Stadtwiki Dresden (accessed November 24, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Gottfried Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Chub
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1846
Place of death Dresden