Heinrich Eduard Dirksen

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Heinrich Eduard Dirksen (born September 13, 1790 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † February 10, 1868 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar , lexicographer and university lecturer . He combined legal history and classical philology in a unique way .

Life

Dirksen attended the old town high school (Königsberg) . Not 16 years old yet, enrolled him at the University of Königsberg for Philosophy and Classical Philology. In 1808 he went to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg to study law . With Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut he got to know the work of Hugo Donellus . In 1810 he moved to the just opened Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin . With Friedrich Carl von Savigny he came across the ideas of Jacques Cujas . On May 27, 1812 he received his doctorate as Dr. iur.

The Albertus University appointed him an associate professor and in 1817 full professor . For the summer semesters 1819 and 1825 he was elected Vice Rector . Dirksen took a leave of absence for spa treatments in Bohemia in 1829 and moved to Berlin . He had not received a call ; but the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational, and Medical Affairs had promised him a chair at the Friedrich Wilhelms University. What attracted Dirksen was the greater field of activity and the proximity to Savigny, to whom he was much closer than Thibault. Dismissed from the Königsberg professorship at his own request in 1830 , he was disappointed in his hope for the Berlin chair. He had the followers of Savigny against him. From 1833 he taught as a private lecturer and professor Regimontanus . Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht recommended him in the same year for appointment to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In return, Dirksen campaigned for Albrecht's appointment to Berlin in 1837. Admitted to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1841 , he was able to continue teaching at the university.

From the 1817 with Wilhelmine born. Toussaint's marriage resulted in two daughters and three sons. As a student and confidante, Friedrich Daniel wrote Sanio Dirksen's biography.

Honors

Fonts

  • Fragments from the writings of the Roman jurists , Königsberg 1814.
  • Civilist Treatises , 2 vols., Berlin 1820.
  • Attempts to criticize and interpret the sources of Roman law , Leipzig 1823.
  • Overview of previous attempts to criticize and produce the text of the twelve-panel fragments , Leipzig 1824.
  • Contributions to the Knowledge of Roman Law , Leipzig 1825.
  • System of legal lexicography , Leipzig 1834.
  • Manuale latinitatis fontium iuris civilis Rome. Thesauri latinitatis epitome in usum tironum , Berlin 1837 (main work).
  • Mixed writings , Berlin 1841.
  • Writings left behind on the criticism and interpretation of the sources of Roman legal history and antiquity , ed. by Friedrich Daniel Sanio, 2 vols., Leipzig 1871 (reprint Leipzig 1973).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kiehnle / Mertens / Schiemann (2013)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Proponens observationes ad selecta legis Galliae Cisalpinae capita . Berlin 1812
  3. ^ Dirksen's rectorate in Königsberg
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Dissertationis iuridicae de privilegiis apud Romanos irrogatis . Koenigsberg 1817
  5. ↑ Dissertation: De vi ac potestate verbi Veteres in iure Romano . Koenigsberg 1824
  6. ↑ Also Georg Beseler was able to prevail in 1859 the corresponding ministerial commitment only when Savigny his influence had lost.
  7. ↑ HE Dirksen: About Cicero's lost work “De iure civili in artem redigendo” . Read at the Academy of Sciences on November 17, 1842

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personal data
SURNAME Dirksen, Heinrich Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1868
Place of death Berlin