Hugo Alexander Eisenhart

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Hugo Alexander Eisenhart (born January 8, 1811 in Wolmirstedt , † May 19, 1893 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Hugo Alexander Eisenhart was born in Wolmirstedt on January 8, 1811. Before attending a high school in Magdeburg , he studied law, political science and philosophy at the University of Halle . During his studies in 1830 he became a member of the Old Halleschen Burschenschaft Germania . To the 1832 University of Berlin changed, he devoted himself under Friedrich Raumer of the national economy as well as the statistics . In Halle he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1834 . He also wanted for political science habilitation be, but the Habilitation was rejected because the historian Heinrich Leo Eisenhart accused amateurism.

Eisenhart tried again for his habilitation in 1836, but it was rejected again. Not much later, he applied again for a habilitation and reviewers were appointed. The proceedings came to the conclusion in 1840 that Eisenhart's opinions were “quite colorful”, but he was nevertheless appointed private lecturer in political science. He also gave lectures on statistics and political science. In 1856 he received an extraordinary professorship for constitutional and administrative law. This discipline was expanded in 1868 by the Prussian Ministry at the law faculty.

Eisenhart also dealt with money and taxation. Since 1863 he was allowed to read aloud about the history of economics in Halle. Eisenhart died on May 19, 1893 at the age of 82 in Halle.

In one of his works he criticized Christian fundamentalism . In his work Die Götterdämmerung [...] he advocated that, in his opinion, unimportant parts of the state and the church must be discarded. Another of his works, runes , can be interpreted in such a way that he wanted to spread individualistic and natural law conceptions. The philosophy of the state and the positive system of national economy sparked controversy in 1843/1844. Because he warned there that the “rabble” could become insurgent, he earned the Prussian government's distrust. Nevertheless, the Halle philosophical faculty supported him. With his work on the history of economics, Eisenhart gained a high reputation among his contemporaries and was therefore included in several economic encyclopedias.

Works

  • Qua origo gentis Habsburgo-Ausriacae ex diplomatis et scriptoribus aequalibus demonstratur (dissertation; Halle 1834)
  • Saint George: An attempt to justify neo-Hegelianism communicated at the instigation of Richard Rothesche's attack on the church (around 1838)
  • The Twilight of the Gods: An Attempt to Justify Applied Neo-Hegelianism with a contentious affection for J. Görres about the Holy Trinity
  • Runes: attempt of a doctrine of appearance of the empire induced by the state concepts of Mr. Stahl and Leo, with a preface to David Strauss about the reason for his confusion of the Savior with the common
  • Philosophy of the State or General Social Theory (before 1844)
  • Positive system of economics or economic social theory (before 1844)
  • Art of Taxation (1868)
  • History of economics (1882)

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical lexicon of the German fraternity. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 283-284.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sometimes January 11th is given as the date of birth; Eisenhart himself stated January 8th as his birthday.

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personal data
SURNAME Eisenhart, Hugo Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolmirstedt
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1893
Place of death Halle on the Saale