Heinrich Jaques

Grave of Heinrich Jaques and Raimund Grübl at the Hietzinger Friedhof

Heinrich Jaques (born February 24, 1831 in Vienna ; † January 25, 1894 there ; also Heinrich Jacques ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician.

biography

Henry Jaques studied at the Universities of Heidelberg philosophy and history and Vienna Law, where he in 1856 to Dr. jur. received his doctorate. After the death of his uncle and guardian Sigmund von Wertheimstein, he headed the banking house Hermann v. Wertheimstein Sons, but liquidated the company in 1859. He settled in Vienna as a lawyer and became a speaker and member of the permanent deputation of the German Juristentag , the Austrian Legal Society in Vienna, he was for a time vice-president. From 1879 he was a representative of Vienna (Inner City) in the Reichsrat , where he joined the constitutional party.

Jaques campaigned for the creation of an electoral court, was a co-founder of the Vienna Commercial Academy , the Concordia writers and journalists' association and the Grillparzer Society, and published numerous works and articles on legal and economic topics.

Heinrich Jaques' sister Louise Beyfus was the mother-in-law of the Mayor of Vienna, Raimund Grübl . The honorary grave of the family is located at the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 11, number 118).

Publications

Theory and Practice in Civil Law . Vienna 1857.
Memorandum on the position of the Jews in Austria . 1859.
Teaching advice and education in Austria . 1863.
Revolution and reaction in Austria 1848–59 . 1867.
Usury legislation and civil and criminal law . 1867.
Treatises on legislative reform . 1874.
Alexis de Tocqueville 1876.
Railway policy and law in Austria . Vienna 1878.
Bosnia as New Austria . Leipzig 1886.
Austria's present and the near future . Leipzig 1888.

literature

Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 3, Czernowitz 1928, p. 245.
Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 596.
Jaques Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 78.
Jaques . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 169–170.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Jaques - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Jaques, Heinrich Dr. iur. . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

↑ Jaques, Heinrich Dr. iur. . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament
↑ Georg Gaugusch : Who once was. The upper Jewish bourgeoisie in Vienna 1800–1938 . Volume 1: AK . Amalthea, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85002-750-2 , pp. 1256-1259

personal data
SURNAME	Jaques, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 24, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1894
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Jaques, Heinrich Dr. iur. . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament

[2] Georg Gaugusch : Who once was. The upper Jewish bourgeoisie in Vienna 1800–1938 . Volume 1: AK . Amalthea, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85002-750-2 , pp. 1256-1259