Johann Christian Friedrich Master

JCF Meister, engraving by Johann Conrad Felsing after Gottfried August Thilo

Johann Christian Friedrich Meister (born June 20, 1758 in Hollenbach ; † February 5, 1828 in Strehlen ) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

The son of the bailiff Carl Ludwig Meister attended the Latin school in Weikersheim until 1770 , then the grammar school in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and studied law in Göttingen from 1774 . Then he went to Berlin and became a private tutor to Hofrat Friedrich Troschel . Here he got to know the General Field Staff Doctor Zinnendorf , who supported him throughout his life. From 1779 on he did legal affairs for the Second Army for a short time, taught at the Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) , in 1781 took over the legal office of the rule of Baron Christian von Haugwitz at Krappitz Palace and one year later became the judicial commissioner of the Opole district . In 1784 he got a job with the Oberamtsregierung zu Brieg .

In 1792 Meister became a full professor of law at the University of Frankfurt (Oder). The University of Göttingen made him a doctorate. After the University of Frankfurt was relocated to Breslau , Meister became dean of the law faculty. Because of his work in medical journals, the medical faculty made him an honorary doctorate in 1816. In 1819, after a fall, his right arm slackened and he was retired with half his pension. For economic reasons he sold his library and moved to Strehlen in 1820, where he died after a long illness.

literature

• Albert Teichmann :  Master, Johann Christ. Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 259 f.
• Karl Münster: Johann Christian Friedrich Master . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Sixth year, second part, Ilmenau 1830, pp. 884–895 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Christian Friedrich Meister  in the German Digital Library