Johann Gerhard Christian Rücker

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Johann Gerhard Christian Rücker (* 1722 in Windsheim ; † April 5, 1780 ibid) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Rücker had started studying law with his uncle Johann Conrad Rücker (1691–1778) on July 14, 1739 at the University of Leiden . Here he had developed so positively that he started teaching himself in 1744 and in 1747 he was eligible for a law professorship at the University of Harderwijk. He stayed in Leiden, however, where, on May 14, 1751, after defending the treatise de L. 6 § 1 D. quemadm. servit. amitt .; L. 49 D. de re judic. et de effect. sent .; L. 21 § 1 D. de pactis (Leiden 1751) doctorate in both rights. In 1752 he became professor of civil law at the University of Groningen , which he took up on September 11 with the speech de Subsidiis futuro JCto and lectured on Roman law.

On July 7, 1760, the curators of the University of Utrecht appointed him professor of civil law. He complied with this request and held his inaugural speech de juris civilis disciplina, morum magistra there on September 22, 1760 . In this capacity he also held the rectorate of the Alma Mater in 1763/64 . Severe asthma forced him to return to his hometown in 1769. His professorship was retained, however, because health recovery was hoped for. Mostly he stayed in Windsheim, his birthplace. Occasionally he visited Erlangen, where dealing with the local scholars was supposed to make his life more pleasant. However, a severe attack of gout with an associated paralysis forced him to return to Windsheim again, where he finally died.

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SURNAME Rücker, Johann Gerhard Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsheim
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1780
Place of death Windsheim