Johann Friedrich Eisenhart

Johann Friedrich Eisenhart (born October 15, 1720 in Speyer , † October 10, 1783 in Helmstedt ) was a German lawyer , professor at the University of Helmstedt and author of legal narratives in the Pitaval tradition.

Live and act

Johann Friedrich Eisenhart was the son of the archivist and first office secretary in Speyer Johann Burckhard Eisenhart (1643–1707) and his wife Maria Johanne Graf († 1729 or 1739). From 1739 he studied philosophy, fine sciences and law at the University of Helmstedt and received his doctorate in both rights in 1748. In 1751 he was offered an extraordinary professorship in law at the University of Helmstedt, before becoming a full professor in 1754 and a full professor at the Faculty of Law in 1762. From 1758 he was head of the ducal German society; In 1759 he was appointed court counselor in Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Eisenhart wrote 48 works. He made a name for himself above all with his writings on German law . The 600-page collection of principles of German law in proverbs [...] is of importance here. It went back to a work of his teacher Franz Karl Conradi and included 328 commented proverbs. Many are still known today, e.g. B. The craft has a golden base , one should choke guarantors or opportunity thieves . Eisenhart was of the opinion that legal proverbs are not only of legal historical importance. They should also serve to explain the applicable customary law, e.g. B. in the clarification of questions of interpretation in court proceedings.

Eisenhart's 10-volume narratives of special right-handers were based on court reports from the Helmstedt Faculty of Laws. The skilfully phrased stories focused less on legal issues than on a clear description of the subject matter. They stood in the tradition of the Causes célèbres et intéressantes by Pitaval , a legal and literary genre popular at the time, and had titles such as The cunning adulteress , A schoolmaster pretends to be a notary and under this character commits various frauds , because of the trial a honey cake or the house thieves discovered . Often the stories had moral, but sometimes also humorous traits.

Fonts

From the evidence through proverbs. Helmstedt 1751.
Principles of German law explained in proverbs with notes. Helmstedt 1759.
Tales of special right-handers. 10 volumes. Hemmerde, Halle (Saale) / Helmstedt 1767–1779.
Complete collection of the common German feudal laws. By Heinrich Christian Freiherr von Senckenberg. Again with a few additional notes, ed. by Johann Friedrich Eisenhart. Hemmerde, Halle (Saale) 1772.

literature

Govaert van den Bergh: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich In: Walther Killy (Hrsg.): Literaturlexikon. Authors and works of German language. Volume 3. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1992, p. 225.
Wolfgang Lent: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, pp. 189f.
Erich Döhring: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 414 ( digitized version ).
Jakob Franck : Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 766 f.

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Friedrich Eisenhart in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Jakob Franck: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 766 f .; Erich Döhring: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 414 ( digitized version ).
^ Work overview with Arthur Behse: The Law Faculty of the University of Helmstedt in the Age of Natural Law . Verlag Zwitzler, Wolfenbüttel 1920, pp. 81-87.
↑ See Peter Oestmann: Diversity of law in court . Vittorio Klostermann-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2002, p. 330ff. mwNew.
↑ See Wolfgang Lent: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 190; Govaert van den Bergh: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon. Authors and works in German . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh, Munich 1992, Volume 3, p. 225 with additional information.

personal data
SURNAME	Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eisenhardt, Johann Friedrich; Eisenhardt, Johann; Eisenhardtus, Ioannes; Eisenhart, Johannes; Eisenhart, Ioannes Fridericus; Eisenhartus, Joannes Fridericus; Eisenhart, Joannes Fridericus; Eisenhartus, Johannes Fridericus; Eisenhartus, Johann Friedrich; Eisenhard, Johann Friedrich; Eisenhart, Johann Friederich; Eisenhartus, Ioannes Fridericus; Eisenhart, Joannes Friedericus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH	Speyer
DATE OF DEATH	October 10, 1783
Place of death	Helmstedt

[1] Cf. Jakob Franck: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 766 f .; Erich Döhring: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 414 ( digitized version ).

[2] Work overview with Arthur Behse: The Law Faculty of the University of Helmstedt in the Age of Natural Law . Verlag Zwitzler, Wolfenbüttel 1920, pp. 81-87.

[3] See Peter Oestmann: Diversity of law in court . Vittorio Klostermann-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2002, p. 330ff. mwNew.

[4] See Wolfgang Lent: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 190; Govaert van den Bergh: Eisenhart, Johann Friedrich . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon. Authors and works in German . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh, Munich 1992, Volume 3, p. 225 with additional information.