Johann Georg Estor

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Johann Georg Estor in the Giessen Professorengalerie
Johann Georg Estor

Johann Georg Estor (born June 8, 1699 in Schweinsberg ; † October 25, 1773 in Marburg ) was a lawyer , genealogist and a pioneer of modern heraldry .

Life

Johann Georg's ancestors originally called themselves Esther, vs. Hester and are traceable in Schweinsberg since 1573. He was the son of the barber and surgeon Johann Heinrich Estor (* around 1665; † November 15, 1703 in Speierbach) and his wife Anna Katharine Stein, who married on September 6, 1698 († July 30, 1739 in Schweinsberg). He was baptized on June 9th the year of his birth. After the early death of his father, his mother married on January 13, 1707 with the manager Johann Justus Faber. After Estor had enjoyed private lessons, he first went to the University of Marburg on April 4, 1715, and in the same year to the University of Gießen on October 24 , where he first continued his language and general studies and then turned to law. In 1719, after a short stay at the University of Jena , he moved to the University of Halle in May of that year . Here he was initially accommodated in the house of the then Chancellor Johann Peter von Ludewig , before he was accepted by Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling , who treated him like a son and, in addition to free maintenance, gave him access to leisure activities and higher societies.

After studying in Halle, he briefly hired himself as a private tutor before completing a legal clerkship at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar and obtaining his doctorate in law at the University of Giessen in 1725 . In 1726, Estor was given an extraordinary professorship in law and at the same time the title of Hesse-Darmstadt councilor and historiographer. In 1727 the full professorship followed at the law faculty and on August 14, 1728 he finally accepted the legal doctorate. In 1734 and 1735 he received offers from the University of Helmstedt , which he turned down. He accepted the offer of the University of Jena as professor of Pandekten at the legal faculty as well as assessor at the court court in the jury's chair, combined with the title of court counselor . According to Johann Stephan Pütter, Jena was “the true epoch of his fame”. Hundreds of listeners always heard his events. In the summer semester of 1737 he was unanimously elected prorector of the university . He turned down the call to the University of Frankfurt an der Oder in 1739 .

He accepted the call to the second professorship of law, associated with the title of government councilor in his home country, at the University of Marburg , which followed in 1742 . He rejected all subsequent calls to Halle, Erlangen and Gießen (1743), to Göttingen and Tübingen (1744), again to Gießen (1746), again to Halle (1749), to Wittenberg (1752), and to Utrecht and Leyden . In Marburg, however, he was promoted to the first professor of law in 1748 and became vice-chancellor of the university. In 1754 Estor becomes a secret councilor and finally in 1768 the university's chancellor and secret council . After his death, Estor's body was buried in Schweinsberg on October 27, 1773. The tombstone of Johann Georg Estors is placed at the Stephanskirche in his birthplace Schweinsberg .

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Transfer of the inscription on the tombstone of JG Estors at St. Stephen's Church in Schweinsberg, his birthplace
  • Johann Christoph Adelung : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings . Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig, 1787, Vol. 2, Sp. 947. ( Online )
  • Arnold Buschmann: JG Estors system of "civil legal scholarship of the Germans". At the beginning of the systematic processing of German private law in the 18th century . In: Effects of European legal culture. Festschrift for Karl Kroeschell on his 70th birthday. Edited by Gerhard Köbler and Hermann Nehlsen. Munich 1997, pp. 77-98.
  • Arno Buschmann: Estor, Pütter, Hugo - On the prehistory of the historical school of law . In: Diversity and Unity in Legal History. Festival ceremony for Elmar Wadle. Edited by Thomas Gergen. Cologne [et al.] 2004, pp. 75-101.
  • Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1843, 1st section, vol. 38, p. 302. ( Online )
  • Jürgen Klein: Johann Georg Estor (1699–1773) Professor of Law and Chancellor of the University of Marburg: a Hessian polyhistor in the Age of Enlightenment . In: Hessische Heimat 23 (1973), no. 4, pp. 125-130.
  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1804 vol. 3, p. 192. ( Online )
  • Theodor Muther:  Estor, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 390-392.
  • Bernd Reifenberg: The foundation of the Chancellor Johann Georg Estor. A generous gift for the university library . In: Marburger UniJournal, special edition January 2000, pp. 24–25.
  • Gerhard Seib: The tombstone of Johann Georg Estors in Schweinsberg. A work by the Marburg sculptor Johann Philipp Friedrich Sommer . In: Hessische Heimat 23 (1973), no. 4, pp. 131-133.
  • Carl Sippel: Johann Georg Estor, Chancellor of the University of Marburg, born on June 8, 1699, died on October 25, 1773. Wilhelm Braun, Marburg, 1874. ( Online )
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Verlag Cramer, Kassel, 1783, Vol. 3, p. 489. ( Online )

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Estor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tombstone Estor on the website of the Schweinsberg parish (as of February 15, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Estor, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, genealogist and heraldist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinsberg
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1773
Place of death Marburg