Johann Gottfried Bauer (legal scholar)

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Johann Gottfried Bauer (born February 20, 1695 in Leipzig ; † March 2, 1763 there ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Johann Gottfried was born the son of Gottfried Bauer and Maria, born Rink. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg from 1711 , received his doctorate on June 27, 1728 in Altdorf and then returned to Leipzig, where he worked as a lawyer and lecturer. In 1739 he was appointed professor and in 1746 the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Appellate Council at the Oberhofgericht . In 1751 he was accepted into the ordinariate of the law faculty of the University of Leipzig. He was also canon of the cathedral monastery of Merseburg .

Works (selection)

His dissertations appeared after his death as a two-volume anthology under the title Opuscula academica , Leipzig, 1787–1792.

family

Johann Gottfried Bauer was married to Henrietta Wilhelmina, the daughter of the Saxon-Merseburg chamber director Johann Wilhelm Reinhardt . She was the only daughter of Christian Reinhardt, who died on September 15, 1710 on the Mannlehngut Webau . As a minor she had already come into possession of this important estate in the Weißenfels office , which she brought into the marriage as a good match and thus provided an important financial basis for her family.

The son Heinrich Gottfried emerged from the joint marriage, who , like his father, became a lawyer and professor at the University of Leipzig.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Bauer was not included in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig .
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1763
Place of death Leipzig