Johann Gottlieb Breyer

Johann Gottlieb Breyer (born December 25, 1715 in Stuttgart ; † January 25, 1796 there ) was a German administrative lawyer and privy councilor .

Life

Breyer studied law at the University of Tübingen . He then traveled to Germany, France , England , Hungary and the Netherlands . In 1740 he became a lieutenant in the Austrian military and rose to become both captain and auditor . In 1745 he returned to Württemberg. There he was Councilor and private secretary. He became known after 1782 for his treatise Elementa Juris Publici Wirtembergici, Atque Serenissimorum Ducum Privati .

Breyer was appointed Privy Legation Councilor in 1788 , and in 1792 he was promoted to a member of the Privy Council with the same title.

The law professor Johann Christoph Friedrich Breyer was his son, the philosophy professor Johann Friedrich Breyer his nephew.

Works (selection)

• Elementa Juris Publici Wirtembergici, Atque Serenissimorum Ducum Privati , Cotta, Stuttgart 1782, 2nd edition 1787.
• The last word about the two-time separation of the Mämplegardische Lande from the Duchy of Würtemberg in the 16th and 17th centuries , in the Tübingische learned advertisements, Tübingen 1788.
• Some interesting state problems, mainly concerning the so respectable old Wirtemberg allodial relations , Tübingen 1790.

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Publisher Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Volume 1, Leipzig 1802, p. 596.
• August Ludwig Reyscher :  Breyer, Johann Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 324.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE), Volume 2, 2nd edition, Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-11-094656-4 , p. 75.

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Gottlieb Breyer  in the German Digital Library
• Johann Gottlieb Breyer on leo-bw.de