Jacob Ludwig Iken

Jacob Ludwig Iken (born April 30, 1758 in Bremen ; † August 17, 1811 in Bremen) was a lawyer and Bremen senator .

biography

Iken was the son of Mayor Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Iken (1726–1805) and his wife Adelheid Henschen (1736–1763).
He was married to the professor's daughter Regine Agnes Runge (1761-1816); both had six children, including Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Iken (1783-1806), Senator Johann Georg Iken (1786-1850), the scholar Carl Jakob Ludwig Iken (1789-1841) and the syndic August Ferdinand Arnold Iken (1793-1853).

He completed his school days in Bremen, from 1773 at the Illustre grammar school in Bremen . From 1775 he studied law at the University of Marburg , from 1778 at the University of Göttingen and he obtained his doctorate in Marburg in 1779. jur. From around 1780 he was at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar and made his educational trips to Strasbourg and Basel from here . In 1781 he was secretary at the lower court and then at the higher court in Bremen.
From 1802 to 1811 (†) he was the successor to Daniel Klugkist, who was elected mayor, of Bremen's councilor / senator.

See also

• List of Bremen Senators

literature

• Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families. Rule structures and self-image of the Bremen elite between tradition and modernity (1813–1848) . Self-published by the Bremen State Archives, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 , ( publications from the State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 69), (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2007).