Johann Georg Daniel Arnold

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johann Georg Daniel Arnold

Johann Georg Daniel Arnold (born February 18, 1780 in Strasbourg ; † February 18, 1829 there ) was an Alsatian lawyer and writer.

Life

Arnold was born the son of a master cooper. His mother passed away very early. From 1787 Arnold attended high school in Strasbourg. The family became impoverished by the French Revolution and from 1795 he hired himself as a clerk in the war bureau of the Bas-Rhin department .

After the turmoil of the revolution, Braun, Herrnschneider, Johann Schweighäuser , the lawyer Christoph Wilhelm von Koch , the pedagogue Johann Friedrich Oberlin and the theologians Jean Laurent Blessig and Isaak Haffner established the Protestant Academy in Strasbourg , a kind of free university at which no school fees were paid by the students was raised. In 1798, a year after his father's death, Arnold attended this private college.

From 1801 to 1803 Arnold studied law and history at the University of Göttingen . During this time a study trip to Berlin , Hamburg and Dresden also took place . On the return trip to Strasbourg he visited Friedrich Schiller in Jena and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar .

After only a short stay in Strasbourg, he traveled on to Paris . There he visited his former teacher, Koch, who had meanwhile become a member of the tribunal. Arnold was hoping for a professorship from him at one of the newly established universities.

Since Koch could not help him, Arnold started disappointed in June 1804 on a tour of Italy via Geneva , Milan , Genoa and Florence to Rome , on to Naples , Venice , Turin and back to Paris.

In April 1806 Arnold became professor of civil law at the University of Koblenz by imperial decree (professor of the civil code at the Koblenz School of Law). In 1809, the Koblenz Prefect Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia brought Arnold a call to the University of Strasbourg . First Arnold got a chair for history, in 1811 he finally became professor for Roman law .

In 1818 Arnold made a trip to Great Britain . In 1820 he was elected to the office of a prefecture council and at the same time to the board of directors of the Church of Augsburg Confession of France .

In 1823 Arnold married the daughter of a landowner from Rappoltsweiler ( Ribeauvillé ) in Upper Alsace . He had a daughter with her.

On February 18, 1829, on his birthday, JGD Arnold died of a stroke in Strasbourg.

plant

Arnold's grave monument in Strasbourg, statue of André Friedrich

He earned particular merit through his work Elementa juris civilis Justinianei; cum Codice Napoleoneo et reliquis legum codicihus collata (Strasbourg and Paris. 1812).

His lyrical poems rise above the ordinary; But he did the best with his comedy "Der Pfingstmontag" ( Le lundi de la Pentecote ), in the Strasbourg dialect (Strasbourg, 1816; 2nd edition with illustrations and more with a selection of poems and biography 1850), a work according to Goethe's judgment which has few equals in terms of clarity and completeness of vision and ingenious presentation of details.

Other works

  • Whit Monday. Comedy in Strasbourg dialect in 5 acts and in verse. Along with a dictionary explaining the peculiar native expressions. Treuttel and Würtz, Strasbourg 1816. ( digitized version )
  • Elementa iuris civilis Iustinianei cum codice civili et reliquis qui in Francogallia obtinent legum codicibus iuxta ordinem Institutionum collati. Lenormant, Paris 1812. ( digitized version )

literature

Web links

Commons : Jean Georges Daniel Arnold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Johann Georg Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold, Georg Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1829
Place of death Strasbourg