Jacob Gabriel Wolff

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Jacob Gabriel Wolff (also: Jakob Gabriel Wolf ; * around 1683/84 in Greifswald ; † August 6, 1754 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German jurist and hymn poet.

Life

Institutiones iurisprudentiae naturalis , 1720

Jacob Gabriel Wolff was the son of the pedagogue Jakob Wolf (1654–1723) and his wife Sophia, the daughter of the Wittstocker Mayor Lindemann. He studied from Michaelis 1702 to Easter 1705 at the University of Greifswald , where he especially attended the lectures of Peter von Mascov (1634-1719). Then he moved to the University of Halle , where he followed the lectures of Samuel Stryck , Christian Thomasius and Justus Henning Böhmer . He received his doctorate in 1710 in Halle with the dissertation De officio principis circa scandala under Johann Samuel Stryk to the doctorate of law and was on February 10, 1716 associate professor at the law faculty.

On April 26, 1724 he was accepted as a full professor in the law school. In connection with this, Wolff received the title of royal Prussian court counselor and from 1732 was an assessor at the law faculty in Halle. He died at the age of 71 in Halle and was buried on August 8, 1754 in Halle's town church. His grave is in crypt arch 5. Wolff has also appeared as a sacred songwriter of 28 hymns, seven of which found their way into the Protestant church hymn books. Thus, "It is certainly a delicious thing to always be patient" , "O how blessed is the soul" and "Now is the more pleasant time, now the sky is open" flowed from his pen. In addition, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the Halle University and was Vice-Rector of the Halle Alma Mater in the previous semester of 1736 and in 1751/52 .

On May 16, 1713, Wolff married Sophie Benigne (born December 16, 1685), the daughter of the heir of Auerstedt and the princely Saxon privy councilor Johann Jacob Schmidt. From this marriage two daughters and three sons were born. With the exception of the later lawyer Jakob Friedrich (born August 27, 1714 in Halle) all children died early.

Works (selection)

  • Diss. Inaug. De officio principis circa scandala, Praesid. Yo. Sam. Stryk. Hall 1710
  • Institutiones Jurisprudentiae Ecclisticae. Halle and Leipzig 1713
  • Diss. De Feudis imperii, eorumque orgine atque indole sub primis Francorum Regibus. Hall 1724
  • Institutiones Jurisprudentiae neturalis tum privatae, tum publicae, quibus regulae justi, honesti, decori ac prudentiae distincte explicantur atque applicantur ( la ). New bookstore, Hall 1720.
  • Kurtzer draft of the most noble principles of the Jurisprudentiae Eccles. et Jurisprudentiae naturalis. In addition to a rescue of the latter, Walch's philosopher again. Lexicon. Hall 1730
  • Legal opinion from the marriage to the late women's sister. Hall 1736
  • Elementa Juris feudorum tum provincialium, tum imperialium reipublicae Romano Germanicae. Hall 1741
  • Ex Jure Germanico nec non Longobarico, legibusque imperii ae moribus eruta ac demonstrata, atque in usum potisfimum Academicum, justo ubique ordine concinnata. Leipzig 1741
  • Kurtzer draft of the basic teachings and order of his Institutionum Jurisprudentiae naturalis rum privatae tum publiicae. Hall 1745
  • Bevis historiae juris publicici delineatio, in usum praelectionum ad jus publicum instituendarum adornata. Hall 1749
  • Well-intentioned address to all the Studiosi juris in Halle, which modestly indicates his future efforts from one year to the next, partly with public and private lectures, partly with book letters. Hall 1749

literature

  • Wolf, Jacob Gabriel. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 58, Leipzig 1748, column 702 f.
  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Wolff, Jacob Gabriel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 37 f.
  • Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former primacy and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Duchy of Magdeburg, which belongs to the Duchy of Magdeburg, and of all the cities, palaces, offices, Manors, aristocratic families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages, especially the cities of Halle, Neumarckt, Glaucha, Wettin, Löbegün, Cönnern and Alsleben; From Actis publicis and credible ... news, collected diligently, reinforced with many unprinted documents, adorned with copperplate engravings and abstracts, and provided with the necessary registers . Emanuel Schneider, Halle 1749/50, vol. 2. p. 753, item 671, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 1-135876
  • Johann Friedrich Stiebritz : Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt: Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former Primat and Ertz-Stifft, ... (continued) Verlag des orphanage, Halle 1773
  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig 1816, vol. 15, p. 294 ( Google book search )

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personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Jacob Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Jakob Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1754
Place of death Halle (Saale)