Johann Christian von Majer
Johann Christian Majer , from 1808 by Majer (also Mayer or Maier ; * December 25, 1741 in Ludwigsburg ; † August 3, 1821 in Tübingen ), was a German law scholar and university professor .
Life
Majer was the son of the architect Georg Friedrich Majer . He attended the monastery schools of Denkendorf and Maulbronn before he was accepted at the Tübingen monastery and began studying theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen . In 1762 he received his master's degree in philosophy, then he continued to study theology until 1765, before becoming vicar in Auerbach. He then accompanied two members of the Woellwarth family to the University of Jena as court master .
Majer was in 1771 at the University of Jena with the disputation De statuum imperil RG jure reform andi to Dr. iur. utr. PhD . In 1771 or 1772 he received a position as associate professor of philosophy at the university there . As such, in 1772 he became a teacher of constitutional law and imperial history at the ducal house of Saxony-Weimar . In 1776 he followed a call as Professor of Law at the University of Kiel . In Kiel he also became a Danish judicial councilor .
Majer only stayed in Kiel for about two years. In 1778 he followed another call to his home university in Tübingen. There he received a chair for feudal law and constitutional law. During his time in Tübingen he was the rectorate of the university five times : 1783, 1790/1791, 1795/1796, 1802/1803 and 1806/1807. On February 4, 1808, he was awarded the degree of Dr. phil. awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal Order of Civil Merit . This was accompanied by his ennoblement . In 1819 he retired .
Works (selection)
- German spiritual constitutional law , 2 volumes, Meyer, Lemgo 1773.
- German secular constitutional law , 3 volumes, Weigand, Leipzig 1775–1776.
- General introduction to private princely law in general , Heerbrandt, Tübingen 1783.
- German State Constitution , 2 volumes, Bohn, Hamburg 1800.
- State-government system in plan , courtyard 1803.
- Teutsche inheritance both in general and in particular in fiefdoms and family estates , Löflund, Stuttgart 1804 as well as 3 continuation volumes up to 1808.
literature
- Manfred Friedrich: Majer, Johann Christian von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 717 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Christian von Majer in the German Digital Library
- Majer, Johann Christian in the Kiel list of scholars
- Mayer, Johann Christian in the digital portrait index
Individual evidence
- ^ In the Königlich-Württembergischer Hof- und Staats-Handbuch , Stuttgart 1812, p. 182 he is listed as a doctor of both rights (in contrast to the NDB).
- ↑ Königlich-Württembergisches Hof- und Staats-Handbuch , Stuttgart 1812, p. 32, 182.
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SURNAME | Majer, Johann Christian von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Majer, Johann Christian; Mayer, Johann Christian von; Mayer, Johann Christian; Maier, Johann Christian von; Maier, Johann Christian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1741 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigsburg |
DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1821 |
Place of death | Tübingen |