Hermann Theodor Schletter

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Hermann Theodor Schletter (around 1873)

Hermann Theodor Schletter (born April 23, 1816 in Dresden , † August 19, 1873 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer and legal scholar.

Life

Hermann Schletter was the son of the later ministerial treasurer Johann Gottfried Schletter. He attended the Dresden Kreuzschule . From 1833 to 1837 he studied law at the University of Leipzig . There he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . The following year he completed his habilitation in Leipzig . From 1839 he worked at the Law Faculty of the University of Leipzig, until 1848 as a private lecturer in law, until 1865 as an associate professor for law and until 1873 as a full honorary professor.

From 1845 to 1851 Schletter was editor of the Leipziger Tageblatt and since 1861 of the citizen newspaper and the Saxon weekly newspaper . In 1854 he became an associate member of the royal appellate court in Leipzig and in 1860 a member of the examination committee for lawyers.

Since 1839 he was a member of the Leipzig Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde and wrote numerous publications on Freemasonry. He was also a member of the Leipzig Writers' Association and campaigned for the establishment of a public library in Leipzig.

He was honored with the title of court counselor by the Saxon king .

Schletter was married twice, from 1840 to 1860 and since 1861. Together with his second wife Franzisca geb. Usurer he had a daughter who died as a child.

Works (selection)

  • Suggestions for assessing the latest draft of a criminal code for the Kingdom of Saxony. (1836)
  • Handbook of the most important Saxon laws. (1837)
  • Hitzig's annals of German and foreign criminal justice. (1845–1855, as editor)
  • Handbook of the German press legislation. (1846)
  • The public-oral criminal process in Germany. Part 1. The Rhenish court system and the Rhenish criminal proceedings. (1847)
  • Yearbooks of German jurisprudence and legislation. (1855–1870, as editor)
  • The Masonic Association. (1848, anonymous)
  • General Manual of Freemasonry. (3 vols., 1861–1866, together with Moritz Zille)
  • Masonic views of life. (1863)

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personal data
SURNAME Schletter, Theodor Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1873
Place of death Leipzig