Gustav von Loeper
Gustav von Loeper (born September 27, 1822 in Stramehl , Province of Pomerania , † December 13, 1891 in Charlottenburg near Berlin) was a German lawyer. With Woldemar von Biedermann he was one of the early and great Goethe researchers. For authoritative philologists such as Wilhelm Scherer and Erich Schmidt , he embodied the desired unification of political nation and cultural nation .
origin
His parents were Johann Ludwig von Loeper (* November 8, 1786; † January 4, 1850) and his wife Ernestine Johanna Caroline von der Osten (* December 15, 1789; June 27, 1868). The parliamentarian Johann Georg von Loeper (1819–1900) was his brother.
Life
Loeper studied law and camera science at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1843 he was reciprocated in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . After the exams he was a judge for a few years . As an expert on state and private princely law, he was appointed to the department of the minister of the royal house (Prussia) in 1854 . For over 32 years he was responsible for all areas of the crown administration. In particular, he devoted himself to the practice of state and private princely law as well as the master list of the Hohenzollern . He led all relevant lawsuits , none of which he lost. In 1863 he succeeded in asserting the claims of the Crown Prussia to the allodial estate of the now extinct Anhalt-Bernburgers . He won the great rulers in Schwedt and Oels for the crown property . Since 1865 lecturer at the Ministerialrat, from 1876 he was also director of the Königl. Go House Archives. He retired in October 1886. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , to whom he had devoted all leisure hours for 40 years, moved into the center of his life. He immersed himself in the newly opened Goethe Archive . His comment on Faust. A tragedy. and to Faust. The second part of the tragedy stressed the unity of both parts and turned against allegorical interpretations. His explanations of poetry and truth and maxims and reflections were famous . Since the founding of the Goethe Society (1885) he has always sat on its board and was elected to the editorial board of the historical-critical Sophien-Ausgabe .
family
He married Caroline Leonore Charlotte Wegner (* July 19, 1829, † April 19, 1907). The couple had several children:
- Gustave Leonore Anna (born June 16, 1863; † 1940)
- Johanna Ida (born May 18, 1865)
- Helene Else (born August 8, 1866), canon
Honors
- Councilor 1st class (1879)
- Dr. iur. hc at the 500th anniversary of Heidelberg University (1886)
- Dr. phil. hc from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin
- Characterization as real Go Councilor, Excellency (1886)
See also
literature
- German Literature Lexicon
- Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses 1918, p.555
Web links
- Walter Schmitz : Loeper, Gustav von . Neue Deutsche Biographie 15 (1987), p. 54 online version
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 120/281
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Loeper, Gustav von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and Goethe researcher |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1822 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Strzmiele , Pomerania |
DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1891 |
Place of death | Berlin-Charlottenburg |