Johann Christian Siebenkees

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Johann Christian Siebenkees ( pseudonym Philalethes ; born August 20, 1753 in Wöhrd , † November 22, 1841 in Nuremberg ) was a German legal scholar , poet and university lecturer .

Life

Siebenkees, whose father was a salt merchant and merchant, received his first education through private lessons and at school in Wöhrd. In 1770 he began his studies at the University of Altdorf before moving to the University of Göttingen in 1773 . He devoted himself mainly to the study of law as well as history and literature . During his stay in Göttingen he was the companion of the son of the councilor Johann Christoph Gatterer . After a trip through the Saxon areas, he returned to Altdorf.

Siebenkees was made associate professor of law at Altdorf University in November 1776 and in 1777 with the dissertation de capitibus quibusdam successionis conjugum ab intestato to Dr. iur. utr. PhD . After Philipp Ernst Spieß died in 1794, he received the full professorship of natural and international law, shortly thereafter that of constitutional and fiefdom law and in 1795 the newly established professorship of canon law. From 1805/1806 he also gave lectures on history. He was dean of the law faculty in Altdorf eight times and rector of the university five times .

Siebenkees came after the dissolution of the Altdorf University in 1809 in 1810 as a full professor of literary history at the University of Landshut . There he became senior university librarian with the rank of senior librarian. After fifty years of teaching, he was in 1826 with the title Privy Councilor to the retirement staggered. A little later he received the Cross of Honor of the Order of Ludwig . He spent his retirement in his hometown of Nuremberg.

Johann Christian Siebenkees was a cousin of the philologist Johann Philipp Siebenkees .

Works (selection)

Siebenkees excelled as a publisher in many ways. With Julius Friedrich von Malblanc he edited the General Law Library, edited by two Altorf scholars in Nuremberg from 1781 to 1786 in six volumes. He himself published the legal magazine in Jena from 1782 to 1783 in two volumes, the new legal magazine in Ansbach in 1784 and the journal from and for Franconia Nuremberg from 1790 to 1793. In addition, he also appeared as the editor of the materials on Nuremberg history , which appeared in Nuremberg from 1792 to 1795 in four volumes.

He wrote:

  • with Christoph Siegmund von Holzschuher : Deductions-Bibliothek von Teutschland: Along with related news. Volumes 3 and 3, Bauer, Nuremberg 1781–1782.
  • Treatise on scholarships and their rights. Nuremberg 1786.
  • About the secret of the posts. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1788.
  • Explanations of the heraldry as a commentary on Mr. Hofrath Gatterer's outline of this science. Nuremberg 1789.
  • Small chronicle of the imperial city of Nuremberg. Altdorf 1790.
  • German proverbs with explanations. Nuremberg 1790.
  • Treatise of the last will according to common and Nuremberg rights. Nuremberg and Jena 1792.
  • About the main law of German spelling, and about speech defects of Bavarian writers. Nuremberg 1808.

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personal data
SURNAME Siebenkees, Johann Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philalethes (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Woehrd
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1841
Place of death Nuremberg