Johann Baptist Horix

Johann Baptist Horix (* 1730 in Mainz , † September 30, 1792 in Vienna ) was a German lawyer , constitutional law teacher and civil servant in the Electoral Mainz and imperial services.

Career

Horix studied philosophy and jurisprudence in Mainz and Göttingen (1750–1752), obtained his licentiate in Mainz in 1752 and then initially worked as a lawyer, from 1754 also as an assessor at the Mainz City Court. Doctorate in both rights in 1755, he became an associate professor and assessor at the Law Faculty in Mainz, and from 1758 a full professor. As a Kurzmainzischer Revisionsrat (1766) and real Privy Councilor (1768) he was entrusted with the visitation of the Court of Appeal in Wetzlar and then returned to Mainz in 1776 when this was unsuccessful. In 1787 he became a Privy Councilor of State and Rector of the University of Mainz , and in 1789 he entered the imperial service as a real court advisor and secret Reich trainee at the secret Reichshof Chancellery in Vienna, where he moved with his family.

Horix published numerous writings on secular and canon law. His discovery of the instrument of acceptance , in which the Roman-German King Albrecht II and the German electors and archbishops agreed at the Mainz Reichstag in 1439 that the imperial church should be more independent, and his new edition of the German canon law sources ( Concordatae nationis Germanicae integrae , 1763 , 2nd ed. 1771–73) supported the Episcopalian efforts of his time, for which Horiz also otherwise advocated in the interests of his minister Anton Heinrich Friedrich von Stadion .

Horix was a committed advocate of the Enlightenment and a member of the Mainz Order of Illuminati .

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume VI, Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig 1806, pp. 110-115
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Horix, Johann Baptist Reichsfrei- und Panierherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, pp. 270–272 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Friedrich von Schulte: The history of the sources and literature of Canon Law , Part I, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1880, pp. 241–243
• Albert Teichmann :  Horix, Johann Baptist von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 127 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Baptist Horix in the catalog of the German National Library