Johann Christian von Quistorp

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Johann Christian Quistorp

Johann Christian Edler von Quistorp (born October 30, 1737 in Rostock , † March 15, 1795 in Wismar ) was a professor of law in Rostock, two-time rector of the University of Bützow and a criminal law scholar from Mecklenburg.

Life

Johann Christian Quistorp came from the respected family of scholars Quistorp . His father Johann Bernhard Quistorp (1692–1761), professor of medicine and later city physician in Rostock, had his 7-year-old son enrolled in February 1745 with the note “filii mei”, a process that was not uncommon for the time. In 1754 Quistorp finally began studying law at the University of Rostock . 1759 he was with the thesis "Utrum unsus testis faciat torturae locum?" The doctor of law doctorate .

In addition to his subsequent teaching as a private lecturer at the University of Rostock, Quistorp worked as a lawyer in Rostock. Quistorp owed his appointment as professor of jurisprudence at the Princely University of Bützow to his numerous writings and main criminal works as well as his work as a canon lawyer . In 1775 Quistorp was commissioned by Duke Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin to draw up a criminal code, which he worked on until 1777 and which was ultimately converted into a penal code.

In 1776 Quistorp was elected rector of the Princely University of Bützow for the first time, which was followed by a second in 1778/1779. In 1780 Quistorp received the title of Royal Swedish Higher Appeal Judge and became an assessor in the Wismar Tribunal , the supreme court of the Swedish territories in the Holy Roman Empire . The abolition of patrimonial jurisdiction in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is attributed to him during this time. In 1792 Quistorp was raised to the nobility due to his numerous services. He died three years later in Wismar.

Johann Christian Quistorp married Christine Wilhelmine Burgmann on April 28, 1773, a daughter of the Rostock mayor Dr. (Johann) Georg Burgmann. Through the marriage he was the brother-in-law of the Rostock professors Heinrich Valentin Becker , Jakob Friedrich Rönnberg and Walter Vincent Wiese .

Works

His main work "Principles of Teutschen Peinlichen Rechts" already bore clear enlightenment and reform-oriented features, in which, in addition to physical and life sentences with imprisonment and labor sentences, new penal regulations were designed and torture was rejected as a means of establishing the truth.

  • Utrum unsus testis faciat torturae locum? 1759.
  • Principles of the German Embarrassing Law. 1770.
  • Attempt to correctly determine the proportion of the common punishments common in Germany against one another. 1778.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register book of the University of Rostock: WS 1419 - SS 1760
  2. ^ Registration of Johann Christian Quistorp in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Entry on the disputation by Johann Christian Quistorp in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Walter Vincent Wiese. In: Paul Falkenberg : The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript, Rostock around 1900.
  5. ↑ See also the short portrait under web links.

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personal data
SURNAME Quistorp, Johann Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quistorp, Johann Christian Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German law professor and criminal law scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1795
Place of death Wismar