Gottlieb Hufeland

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Gottlieb Hufeland; Painting by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein .

Gottlieb Hufeland (born October 29, 1760 in Danzig ; † February 25, 1817 in Halle / Saale ) was a German legal scholar.

Hufeland was a professor in Jena , Würzburg and Landshut . He was the son of Daniel Hufeland and Anna Constancia, geb. Granzow. In 1793 he married Wilhelmine Wiedemann, with whom he had three children (Mathilde, Therese, Siegmund). Hufeland was one of the first to use the term economics . From 1806 to 1812 he was mayor of Gdansk.

In Jena he took care of a large part of the business work of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , which was published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch together with Christian Gottfried Schütz and Christoph Martin Wieland . Here he also got to know Friedrich Schiller , who described Hufeland as "a quiet thinking spirit full of salt and deep research."

Works

  • Experiment on the principle of natural law (1785)
  • Theorems of natural law and related sciences (1790). Glassworks in the Taunus: Auvermann, 1973 [unchanged. Neudr. D. Jena 1790]
  • Institutions of all positive law (1798)
  • Textbook of the history and encyclopedia of old positive rights applicable in Germany (1790)
  • New foundation of the art of state economics (2 volumes, 1807 and 1813; title of the 2nd volume doctrine of money and money circulation )
  • On the peculiar spirit of Roman law in general and in particular with comparisons of new legislation: a series of treatises which can also serve as an explanatory manual on the unusual representations in the textbook of common civil law (1815)
  • Memories from my stay in Danzig from 1808 to 1812. Königsberg: Nicolovius, 1815

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SURNAME Hufeland, Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1817
Place of death Halle (Saale)