Heinrich Christian von Selchow

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Johann Heinrich Christian von Selchow (born July 26, 1732 in Kindelbrück , † April 21, 1795 in Marburg ) was a German lawyer .

Life

With the support of Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , Selchow received an exemplary education and training in the Lyceum in Ilsenburg and Wernigerode . From 1746 to 1752 he studied at the University of Göttingen , where he in 1755 to Dr. iur. received his doctorate. Selchow received an extraordinary professorship in law in Göttingen in 1757 and a full professorship in 1762. In 1771 he became an assessor at the Faculty of Law.

In 1782, Selchow followed the call to Marburg as Privy Councilor, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Law. In 1783 he became Chancellor of the University of Marburg and held this office until his death.

On April 28, 1787, in the imperial city of Wetzlar, he was accepted into the Freemasons ' union by a deputation lodge of the provincial lodge "Zum Reichsadler" .

Works (selection)

  • The beginnings of Brunswick-Lüneburg private law . Goettingen 1760
  • Principles of the law of exchange, for the use of public lectures . Goettingen 1777
  • Thorough probation of the rights of the High Count's House of Lippe on the Sternberg lordship and the other allegedly associated goods along with a refutation of the claims made by the Paderborn bishop against them. Lemgo 1783 ( LLB Detmold )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Georg Kloss : Annals of the Lodge to Unity . Frankfurt a. M. 1842, reprint Graz 1972, p. 231.