Johann Kaspar Gensler

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Johann Kaspar Gensler also: Johann Caspar , also: Genssler, Genßler Genzler (born September 14, 1767 in Ostheim before the Rhön ; † November 18, 1821 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Johann Kaspar was the son of the cantor and school clerk Georg Christian Gensler and his wife Anna Susanna, geb. Hoffmann. He lost his father early. In 1782 he attended the St. Sebald School in Nuremberg and in 1784 the academic high school Casimirianum Coburg . On April 24, 1788 he enrolled at the University of Jena , where he studied law. After his studies he became tutor of the noble von Stein family in Nordheim (Grabfeld) in 1791 , from 1792 he worked as a lawyer in Eisenach and later as a syndic in his native Ostheim. He rose to the rank of consultant and judicial officer of Count Julius von Soden. In 1800 he moved back to the Jena University of Applied Sciences, where he received his doctorate in law in 1801. In 1801 he became an associate member of the Schöppenstuhl and from 1802 worked as a private lecturer. In 1803 he was assigned an extraordinary assessment at the verdict college of the law faculty. On September 1, 1804, he became a full professor of feudal law and thus had a full vote in the Senate of the Faculty of Law.

In 1805 he was promoted to the institute's fifth full professor, and in the same year he was advisor to Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld. In 1808 he took over the fourth full professorship of the Pandekten Patris secunda, in 1809 the third professor of the Pandekten Patris primae and was associated with it as Hofrat von Sachsen-Weimar. After he had been given a full observer position at the Faculty of Law in 1813, he led the fortunes of the university in the summer semester of 1813, during the wars of liberation , as rector of the alma mater . On December 14, 1815, he succeeded Christoph Martin as professor of civil and criminal procedural law at the University of Heidelberg , where he was a member of the inner council from 1817 to 1819, was appointed to the secret council of justice in 1818 and as dean of the law faculty in 1819 acted. From 1818 he was co-editor of the journal Das Archiv für die civilist Praxis . He declined appointments to the University of Bonn in 1818 and to the University of Erlangen in 1819 .

Gensler had married Hieronyma Carolina Heiligenstädt (1780-1845). The marriage has two children. His daughter Henriette (Christiane Anna) Gensler (* 1802) was married to Heinrich Arminius Riemann since 1821 .

Works (selection)

  • Diss. Inaug de probatione in perpetuam rei memoriam, quattenus differt a regulari. Jena 1801
  • Civil Acts, negotiated according to the process regulations and the court practice of the entire ducal Saxon lands, printed for the purpose. Jena 1805 (online) , (with Karl Heiligenstädt)
  • Pieces of files according to all types of judicial proceedings in criminal matters, for the sake of etc. Jena 1805
  • Civil acts negotiated and printed according to the rules and form of the common German process. Jena 1806 (online)
  • Exercitationes juris civilis ad doctrinam de culpa. Fasc. I. Jena 1813
  • Tractatus de emtione venditione, quae fit, ad mensuram, adnumerationem, pondusue, vel ad gustum. Jena 1814 (online)
  • Handbook for Martin's textbook of the German common process. Jena 1814 (online) ; Jena 1821 (online)
  • Principles of the legal lecture and formal decision-making customer in judicial legal transactions. Jena 1815 (online)
  • Legal cases for litigation practice. In addition to the content register. Heidelberg 1817 also under the title: Collection of legal cases for assessment and formal processing in academic training colleges.
  • Contribution to the legislation for the constitution of the German courts and the procedure before and by them. Heidelberg 1818 (online)
  • Contribution to the doctrine of diligence and culpa, according to the terms of the Roman legal scholars. Heidelberg 1819 (online) , 3rd edition. Heidelberg 1839
  • Instructions for judicial practice in civil litigation, combined with theoretical. Representations and comments. 1st volume, Heidelberg 1821 (online) ; 2. Volume 1825 ( online ) edited by Karl Eduard Morstadt
  • Gensler's complete commentary in ongoing dictates on Dr. C. Martin's textbook on the German common bourgeois process. Heidelberg 182 ?, 1825
  • Full commentary on Martin's Civilprocess textbook. Heidelberg 1825, 2 volumes. (edited by K. Ed. Morstadt, 1st volume (online) ; 2nd volume (online) , 3rd edition. 1995)
  • JC Gensler's Legal Cases for Civil Process Practice. Heidelberg 1833, 2nd edition ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Gensler, Johann Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Genssler, Genßler Genzler; Gensler, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostheim in front of the Rhön
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1821
Place of death Heidelberg