Johann Friedrich Jugler

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Johann Friedrich Jugler (born July 17, 1714 in Wettaburg ; † January 9, 1791 in Lüneburg ) was a German legal historian.

Life

Johann Friedrich Jugler was born as the son of the preacher Johann Martin Jugler in Wettaburg, not far from Naumburg . He received his first lessons from his maternal uncle, the superintendent of Tautenburg Johann Christoph Friderici . From 1729 to 1734 he was a student at the Princely School in Pforta . In the summer semester of 1734 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig to study law. In addition to legal events, he also attended other events, mostly philosophy or legal history. After graduating in 1739, Jugler got a job as court master in the house of the Counts of Hohenthal . In 1741 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig and went as court master to the Hamburg mayor Conrad Widow , whose son he taught. In the summer of 1743 he accompanied the young Widow on a spa stay in Karlsbad , where he met Duke Johann Adolf von Sachsen-Weißenfels . The duke introduced Jugler to the privy councilor Gerlach Adoph von Münchhausen , who at the time was minister responsible for education in the Principality of Hanover. Münchhausen awarded Jugler the professorship of natural law at the Augusteum grammar school in Weißenfels after his Hamburg employment relationship ended in 1744 . After longer stays in Göttingen and Jena , Jugler took up this position on September 24, 1744. His inaugural address was about the Ciceromania Eruditorum , the “ Cicero madness of the highly respected”.

After just a few months, Münchhausen offered Jugler a new position in Göttingen, which Jugler refused because of his short stay in Weißenfels. In January 1745 he was appointed government assessor in Weißenfels. At the end of 1745 he was appointed inspector and teacher at the Knights' Academy of Lüneburg , where he was to bear the title of Royal British Council. Shortly after marrying the daughter of superintendent Valentin Ernst Löscher in Dresden , Jugler and his wife moved to Lüneburg in early 1746. The famous knight academy founded by the highly educated Duke August the Younger was in a desolate state and had only six students. Jugler endeavored in his forty years of service to restore the academy's discipline and reputation.

Jugler's wife died in 1766. His second marriage, which he entered after the end of the year of mourning in 1767, was divorced after a few years. Jugler's blindness in 1787 put an end to his work. Several operations at the Altona ophthalmologist Unger also failed. This year Jugler said goodbye to the Knight Academy, which was granted to him with great honor. He spent the last years of his life with "an equally good mood and a warm interest in literary achievements in the broad field of history and jurisprudence". At the time of his death, his private library contained around 8,000 volumes and just as many small writings.

A son of Jugler was the doctor and writer Johann Heinrich Jugler (1758–1812).

Services

In addition to his more than forty years of teaching activity in Lüneburg, Jugler made a name for himself primarily through his research in the field of legal history and his numerous publications. He got a new edition of the bibliotheca historiae litterariae selectae (Jena 1754–63) by the Jena lawyer Burkhard Gotthelf Struve , which almost became a new work through Jugler's additions and improvements. In 1785 a supplementary volume by Johann Christoph Köcher appeared for this work .

Jugler's most extensive work is the contributions to the legal biography, or more precise literary and critical reports on the life and writings of deceased legal scholars and statesmen who have made a name for themselves in Europe . The supplements appeared in six volumes of two parts each from 1773 to 1780 in Leipzig , published by Paul Gotthelf Kummer . They include 127 carefully processed biographies, which were included in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , among others . Through the compilation of the contributions , Jugler came into contact with the biographer Christoph Weidlich .

Biographies of Johann Georg Kulpis , Cornelis van Bynkershoek , Johann Heinrich von Berger , Christoph Heinrich von Berger , Friedrich Ludwig von Berger , Johann August von Berger , Christoph Besold , Johann Georg Besold , Jakob Friedrich Ludovici , Eberhard Otto , Franz Florent and Georg Beyer

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ADB 14, 662.

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personal data
SURNAME Jugler, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Wettaburg
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1791
Place of death Luneburg