Johann Heinrich Rother

Johann Heinrich Rother (born December 21, 1685 in Glauchau ; † July 14, 1756 ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Rother was the son of the councilor and builder Johann Georg Rother. He received his first education at the city school of Glauchau and at the age of 15 he went to the Altenburg high school . His training was promoted by the fact that he was allowed to accompany a member of the Schönburg-Glauchau family . Then he came to Halle an der Saale . There he received private lessons from, among others, Christian Thomasius , before he was allowed to follow the young gentleman von Schönburg to the University of Leipzig . Due to various sponsorships, he was able to enjoy various private scientific lessons again. After completing his law degree in 1707, he accompanied young aristocrats as court master.

Rother first settled as a lawyer in Magdeburg , then in Glauchau and finally in Leipzig. In 1713 he was appointed to the commission in Merseburg . For the Polish governor Prince von Fürstenberg , he served on various commissions in Central Europe from 1714 until his death in 1716. In 1721 he received the post of high commissioner at the General Consumptionsaccise in Leipzig . At that time he was giving legal lectures in Leipzig. In 1728 he was at the University of Marburg to Dr. iur. utr. PhD . He also received the title of court counselor in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

Sometimes he is named as a co-author of the large, complete Universal Lexicon of All Sciences and Arts .

Works (selection)

Referents or a thorough introduction like Acta Publica in those of the Roman-German Empire recipirten Bürgerlich- u. Pal. Processes useful to read .. , Cröker, Jena 1736.
Commentatio Theoretica-Practica in Doctrinam Pandectarum Ludovicianam , 2 volumes, Hall 1742.
Kurtzer draft of legal colleges and their two-year academic treatise , Langenheim, Leipzig 1745.

literature

Johann Heinrich Rother: Johann Heinrich Rother. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler (Hrsg.): Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 32, Leipzig / Halle 1742, Sp. 1178–1187.
Ernst Landsberg : Rother, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 361.

Web links

Works by and about Johann Heinrich Rother in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ Bernhard Kossmann: German Universal Lexica of the 18th Century. Their essence and their informational value, illustrated using the example of the works of Jablonski and Zedler. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2947–2968, especially pp. 2952–2966, here: p. 2955.

personal data
SURNAME	Rother, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	December 21, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH	July 14, 1756

[1] Bernhard Kossmann: German Universal Lexica of the 18th Century. Their essence and their informational value, illustrated using the example of the works of Jablonski and Zedler. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2947–2968, especially pp. 2952–2966, here: p. 2955.