Hermann Nikolaus Funck

Hermann Nikolaus Funck (born March 15, 1733 or 1738 in Rinteln , † March 18, 1802 in Bentheim ) was a German lawyer.

family

His parents were from the Marburg originating Johann Nikolaus Funck and Katharine Elisabeth born Koehler, used Cancrin. His father was a teacher at the Marburg Pedagogy from 1723 and since 1729 a full professor of eloquence, history and politics at the University of Rinteln . One of his sisters, Anne (* 1729) married the Waldeck body medic Duncker and Friderike (1735–1762) the Rinteln rector and later Silix pastor Carl Anton Brauns.

Life

Hermann Nikolaus Funck initially studied in Rinteln and Göttingen . In Rinteln he received his doctorate in 1757 under Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel as a licentiate in both rights. He received his doctorate in law on February 26, 1760.

At Pestel's suggestion, by rescript dated December 15, 1759, he received the first professorship in law at the Steinfurter Gymnasium Illustre Arnoldinum , where he was introduced to the Senate at the end of March 1760. He taught the institutions according to Johann Gottlieb Heineccius , the Pandects according to Johann Ludwig Schmidt and Justus Henning Böhmer , natural law according to Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling , criminal law according to Georg Adam Struve , constitutional law according to Johann Jakob Schmauß and Johann Stephan Pütter and the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina . From 1760 to 1767 he also taught geography and universal history . He has served as Vice Rector several times. He had a lasting effect as a librarian . In 1769 and 1772 he was brought in to instruct the young sons of the count about German constitutional law according to Schmauß.

He married Christine Amalie, a daughter of the Rinteln superintendent and theology professor Johann Engelhard Steuber . Her son Karl Funck (1768–1837) also became a lawyer, married the pharmacist's daughter Anna Elisabeth Gempt and was promoted to director of the Bentheim law office until 1824.

At the end of 1774, after the death of Johann Christoph Buchs , Hermann Nikolaus Funck was appointed head of the Bentheim government by the Hanoverian pledge government of the County of Bentheim . He served as a councilor and in 1777 as court judge . In 1798 he took care of the employment of the printer August Friedrich Denhard (1763-1833).

Web links

• http://www.stenvorde.de/professoren/hermann_nikolaus_funck.html . Accessed March 31, 2016. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6gQaoqktZ )