Jakob Friedrich Ludovici

Jakob Friedrich Ludovici (born September 19, 1671 in Wachholzhagen near Treptow an der Rega , district of Greifenberg i. Pom. , Western Pomerania ; † December 14, 1723 in Gießen ) was a German legal scholar.

Jakob Friedrich Ludovici around 1722

Ludovici was born in the church village of Wachholzhagen in the back of Pomerania when his father, Jacob Ludovici (* August 2, 1630, † 1703 in Pagenkopf) was a preacher there. The father later became provost and pastor in Jacobshagen , district of Saatzig , but soon lost this position and in 1696 went to Pagenkopf, district of Naugard , to work again as a preacher there. Ludovici's paternal grandfather, Georg Ludovici, was a preacher in Werben , Pyritz district .

From 1688 Ludovici attended the Collegium Groeningianum in Stargard in Western Pomerania , which he left with the university entrance qualification. In 1690 he enrolled at the University of Königsberg to study law. In 1692 he returned to Stargard to undergo a legal internship of about five years under the guidance of the lawyer Nitzen.

In 1697 he decided to start a university career at the newly built University of Halle . The chairs of the law faculty there were held by Stryk for practical law, Brunnemann for German constitutional law , Ludewig for feudal law and Böhmer for canon law . The move turned out to be a happy one for Ludovici, because it was received with goodwill by the academic officials and also encouraged. He was particularly encouraged by Stryk and the philologist Christoph Cellarius .

Although he initially had to struggle with poor living conditions, after he had acquired a teaching license, he soon managed to gather an audience and gain a solid foothold as a lecturer. Right at the beginning of his academic career he defended a pamphlet by Christian Thomasius . In 1711 he became Professor of Law and in 1716 Hofrat in Halle. He wrote a number of high-circulation legal textbooks.

In 1721 he went to Giessen as a professor of law . There he became vice chancellor of the university.

In Gießen Ludovici suffered an attack of weakness in December 1723, which was accompanied by severe swallowing difficulties, shortness of breath and chills and which led to his death the following day. He was only 52 years and three months old.

In 1702 Ludovici had married a daughter of Cellarius. The marriage resulted in two sons and three daughters.

Works (selection)

• Investigation of the Indifferentismi Religionum , 1700
• Jurium Licentiati, Delineatio historiae juris divini, naturalis et positivi universalis , Renger, Halle and Magdeburg 1701 ( e-copy )
• Collegium juris Feudalis , 2nd edition, Zeitler, Halle and Magdeburg 1712 ( e-copy ).
• Introduction to the Civil Proceß , Orphanage, Hall 1704, 13th edition, ibid, 1769 ( e-copy ).
• Introduction to the embarrassing process , orphanage, hall 1707, 13th edition, ibid., 1770 ( e-copy )
• Introduction to the Concurs process , orphanage, hall 1710, 10th edition, ibid, 1749 ( e-copy ).
• Introduction to the change process , orphanage, hall 1712, 10th edition, ibid, 1753 ( e-copy ).
• Introduction to the Consistorial Proceß , Orphanage, Hall 1713, 10th edition, ibid., 1762 ( e-copy ).
• Introduction to the war process , orphanage, hall 1714. 10th edition, ibid, 1771 ( e-copy ).
• Introduction to the Lehns-Proceß , orphanage, hall 1718, 8th edition, ibid., 1752 ( e-copy )
• Sachsenspiegel , Hall 1720, new edition, ibid, 1750.

literature

• Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Detailed diplomatic-historical description of the Saal-Kreyses , Volume 2, orphanage, Halle 1755, pp. 662–663 ( online ).
• Johann Friedrich Jugler : Contributions to the legal biography. Or more precise literary and critical reports on the life and writings of deceased legal scholars and statesmen who have made themselves famous in Europe , Volume 1, Part I, Heins, Leipzig 1773, pp. 130-150 ( online ).
• Pierer's Universal Lexikon , Volume 10, Altenburg 1860, p. 574 ( Zeno.org ).