Hermann Roesler

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Hermann Roesler with the Order of the Rising Sun
Grave slab of Hermann Roesler and his wife Agnes Martha Turnour in the cemetery in Bozen- Oberau

Carl Friedrich Hermann Roesler (born December 18, 1834 in Lauf an der Pegnitz , † December 2, 1894 in Bozen ) was a German economist .

biography

Hermann Roesler was the son of the regional court attorney Christoph Carl Friedrich Maximilian Roesler (1798–1841) and his wife Sophie Wilhelmine nee. Nägelsbach, sister of the classical philologist Karl Friedrich Nägelsbach (1806-1859).

He attended the Nuremberg Melanchthon - high school and studied from 1852 to 1856 in Erlangen and Munich law and political science. During his studies in 1855 he became a member of the Germania Erlangen fraternity . In 1856 Roesler passed the first state examination in law, in 1858 the second and obtained his doctorate in Erlangen in 1860. jur. utr., in the same year also in Tübingen for Dr. the state economy. In the following year he completed his habilitation in Erlangen, after which he took up a full professorship in Rostock .

In 1878 Hermann Roesler converted from Lutheran confession to Catholicism , which is why he was no longer allowed to remain in the Mecklenburg civil service. That is why he went to Tokyo that same year as an advisor to the Japanese Foreign Ministry and then to the Japanese cabinet , where he stayed until 1893. His relationship with the German embassy there and the German community is described as frosty. Roesler was instrumental in drafting the Japanese Commercial Code and the Meiji Constitution .

After completing his stay in Japan, Roesler moved to Bozen in 1893 , where he died shortly afterwards in the Compil residence (Klebelsberg) in Bozen-Dorf and was buried in the old city cemetery south of the Maria Himmelfahrt parish church . After the cemetery was closed in 1931, the remains of Roesler and his wife Agnes Martha Turnour (born on August 3, 1851 in Bozen (St. Peter, House Körbler), who came from an Irish-English family, were also deceased on August 22, 1921 in Kingswood near Brampton in England ) in the new Bolzano cemetery in St. Jakob in Oberau and closed there with a marble slab in the 8th arcade immediately north of the large cemetery chapel.

The grave slab bears the following multiline Latin inscription:

" Ad piam memoriam. Hic in domino pie requiescunt C [arolus] F [ridericus] Arminius Roesler, utriusque iuris itemque philosophiae et oeconomiae nationalis doctor ac prof [essor] in universitate Rostock, postea referens consiliarius caesarii regni Japonensis, qui natus the XVIII. dec [embris] ann [o] MDCCCXXXIV. in Lauf (Bavaria), † II. dec [embris] anno MDCCCXCIV. in castello Compil Bulsani; vir iustus fuit - unacum coniuge Agnete M [artha] N. Turnour piissima mitique matrona nata the III. aug [usti] MDCCCLI in Kingswood ap [ud] Brampton (Anglia), † the XXII. aug [usti] anno MCMXXI. in St. Petr [o] ap [ud] Bulsanum. [Matthew 5: 5-10:] Beati qui lugent; beati qui persecutionem patiuntur propter iustitiam, quoniam ipsorum est regnum coelorum. XR [Christ]. Gruber Gries. "

Honors

Works

  • On the critique of the theory of wages: an attempt at national economics . Erlangen: Enke 1861.
  • On the basic tenets of the economics theory established by Adam Smith . 2nd edition, Erlangen: Deichert 1871.
  • Textbook of German Administrative Law , 2 vols. Erlangen: Deichert 1872–1873.
  • Lectures on economics . Erlangen: Deichert 1878.
  • Draft Commercial Code for Japan. With Commentar , 3 vols. Tokyo 1884.
  • The German Nation and Prussia . Zurich: Schmidt 1893.

literature

  • Manfred Friedrich:  Roesler, Carl Friedrich Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 742 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Heinrich Klenz :  Roesler, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 500 f.
  • Anna Bartels-Ishikawa (Ed.): Hermann Roesler. Documents on his life and work. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 209-210.
  • Mario G. Losano: Reports from Japan 1879-1880. Milan: Ed. Unicopli 1984.
  • Anton Rauscher: The social legal idea and the overcoming of economically liberal thinking: Hermann Roesler and his contribution to the understanding of the economy and society. Munich et al: Schöningh 1969.
  • Johannes Siemes : Hermann Roesler and the introduction of German constitutional law in Japan. Tokyo 1962.
  • Johannes Siemes: The founding of the modern Japanese state and German constitutional law. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1975.
  • Suzuki Yasuzô: Hermann Roesler and the Japanese Constitution. In: Monumenta Nipponica , Vol. 4 (1941), pp. 53-87
  • Bert Becker: The constitutional lawyer Hermann Roesler as government advisor in Japan . In: Martin Guntau (Ed.): Mecklenburgers abroad . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-772-3 , p. 92-98 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honors after Yasuzο Suzuki (translated by Johannes Siemes ): Hermann Roesler and the Japanese Constitution. In: Monumenta Nipponica Jan., 1941, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan. 1941), pp. 53-87 JSTOR 2382514
personal data
SURNAME Roesler, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roesler, Carl Friedrich Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauf an der Pegnitz , Middle Franconia
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1894
Place of death Bolzano