Johann Carl Conrad Oelrichs
Johann Carl Conrad Oelrichs (born August 12, 1722 in Berlin ; † January 10, 1799 there ; also Johann Karl Konrad Oelrichs ) was a German legal scholar, historian and high school teacher.
life and work
Johann Carl Conrad Oelrichs was the son of Friedrich Oelrichs, who had gone from Bremen to Berlin as a preacher for the Reformed community. He had a well-known brother, Johann Georg Heinrich Oelrichs , a preacher. After the death of his mother in 1724 and his father in 1732, he went to the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium in Berlin on October 20, 1732 . From 1740 he studied law at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1743 he finished his studies with a dissertation . He went to Berlin, where he practiced law and also gave private lessons. In 1750 he was at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) to Dr. jur. utr. PhD. He then went on an educational trip through Saxony and Lower Saxony .
After several unsuccessful attempts to get a job as professor of law at a university, he was appointed professor of law at the Academic Gymnasium in Szczecin in 1752 . Here he was the first teacher of the Reformed denomination to work as a high school professor for 21 years . He initially taught introduction to law, later also legal history and natural law . In the years 1767 and 1768 he was the rector of the grammar school. In 1755 he was appointed imperial court and count palatine by Prince Johann Friedrich von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt on the use of Gustav Adolf von Gotter .
In addition to his teaching activities, he wrote numerous publications on legal, historical and literary topics, including those relating to Pomerania . Numerous learned societies made him a member. He earned particular merit through the rediscovery of the printing plates for the Lubin map and the new edition of an edited version of the "Codex diplomaticus Pomeraniae" by Friedrich von Dreger .
Since he did not agree with the school innovations that had been introduced at the Prussian grammar schools, he voluntarily took his leave in Stettin in 1773 and settled again in Berlin. Before that, he had tried several times for a job as a librarian at the Royal Library of Berlin , albeit in vain. In Berlin he mainly devoted himself to his work as an author. In 1784 he was appointed Privy Legation Councilor and resident of Zweibrücken and Baden at the Prussian court.
He bequeathed a large part of his library of around 12,000 volumes and 16,000 thalers in cash to the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium. His writings and collections on Brandenburg and Pomeranian history went to the University of Frankfurt (Oder). He bequeathed books and 500 thalers to the Academic Gymnasium in Stettin for legal lessons after the law professorship there had not been occupied since 1783.
Oelrichs was married. The marriage remained childless.
Fonts (selection)
- De bonis nobilium juri detractus obnoxiis . Dissertation, Frankfurt (Oder) 1748
- De botding et lodding iudiciis Germaniae . Dissertation, Frankfurt (Oder) 1750
- Draft of a history for the Royal Library in Berlin . Berlin 1752 (reprint Leipzig 1986)
- Contributions to the history of literature , Berlin / Stettin / Leipzig 1760 ( full text ).
- Contributions to the history of Brandenburg . Berlin, Stettin, Leipzig 1761 (digitized BSB digital)
- The praised memory of the Pomeranian dukes , Berlin 1763.
- Oratio de origine necessitate et commodis consulatus academici temporalis et ambulatorii speciatim Palaeo-Stetini , Alt-Stettin 1864 ( full text ).
- Draft of a library on the history of learning in Pomerania . Stettin 1765 ( full text ).
- Contributions to the history of the excellent princely book printing company in Bard, in the royal. Swedish Pomerania , Butzow / Wismar 1764 ( full text ).
- Historical-diplomatic contributions to the history of Gelahrheit, especially in the Duchy of Pomerania . Stettin 1767 ( full text )
- Hern. Friedr. von Dreger Codex Pomeraniae vicinarumque terrarum diplomaticus, or documents, such as the Pomerian-Rügian and Caminic, also concern the neighboring states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Prussia and Poland… . Berlin 1768 ( full text )
- Reliable historical and geographical news from the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen… . Berlin 1771 ( full text )
- Draft of a blended Pomeranian library of scriptures . Berlin 1771 ( full text )
- Explained Chur-Brandenburg Medal Cabinet ... On the history of Friederich Wilhelm the Great . Berlin 1778 (reprinted Berlin 1988)
- News from his own manuscripts, mostly ready for printing, and… Frankfurt an der Oder 1785 ( full text )
- Historical-diplomatic contributions to literary history, especially of the Duchy of Pomerania. In addition to a cumbersome historical-diplomatic investigation of the Duke of Pomerania Swantibor III . First part, Berlin 1790 ( full text )
- Directory of Dregerische's remaining collection of Pomeranian documents . Szczecin 1795
literature
- Gottfried von Bülow : Oelrichs, Johann Karl Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 318 f.
- Andreas Erb: Oelrichs, Johann Carl Konrad (1722–1798). In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 1 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20936-0 , pp. 208-211.
- FL Hoffmann: Johann Carl Conrad Oelrichs . In: SERAPEUM - Journal for Library Science, Manuscript Studies and Older Literature Leipzig 1869.
- Johann Georg Meusel: Oelrichs (Johann Karl Konrad) . In: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Vol. 10, Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig 1810, pp. 171–186.
- Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 351–353.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Carl Conrad Oelrichs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Johann Carl Conrad Oelrichs in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oelrichs, Johann Carl Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oelrichs, Johann Karl Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar, historian and high school teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1722 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1799 |
| Place of death | Berlin |