Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen. The Rocco brothers in Göttingen

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen (born February 16, 1778 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † September 24, 1837 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

After attending the Magdeburg Cathedral School , Göschen began studying law at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1794 , which he continued from 1796 to 1798 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . When he went to Berlin in 1806, he took up these studies again and received his doctorate in 1811. Subsequently, he received an extraordinary and in 1813 a full professorship in law in Berlin. With Friedrich Carl von Savigny and Karl Friedrich Eichhorn , he published the journal for historical jurisprudence from 1815 . From 1817 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1819/20 he was rector of the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin .

In 1822 he moved to the Göttingen chair.

Of his sons, Otto Göschen also became a legal scholar, Adolf Göschen a theologian and general superintendent in Harburg.

personal data
SURNAME	Göschen, Friedrich Johann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1837
Place of death	Goettingen