Johann Lorenz Fleischer

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Johann Lorenz Fleischer, engraving by Johann Friedrich Rosbach

Johann Lorenz Fleischer (born March 12, 1689 in Bayreuth ; † May 13, 1749 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German legal scholar . He was a professor and rector of the Brandenburg University in Frankfurt .

Live and act

Nothing is known about Johann Lorenz Fleischer's parents and youth. From 1707 he studied law at the Friedrichs University in Halle ; In 1711 he received his doctorate in law there . Christian Thomasius, a natural lawyer from Halle, was one of his academic teachers .

Fleischer was appointed associate professor in 1717 and full professor of law in 1723 . In 1733 he followed a call to a professorship for the Pandects at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt, where he succeeded Johann Gottlieb Heineccius . In 1739 he took over the professorship of the Codex and in 1744 became director of the university. Five years later, he died at the age of 60.

In his writings, which were influenced by Thomasius and some of which appeared in several editions, he dealt, among other things, with the fundamentals of natural law , canon law and legal questions of guardianship .

Works (selection)

  • Institutiones juris naturae et gentium , Halle 1722 (2nd edition 1730, 3rd edition 1745)
  • Introduction to ecclesiastical rights, like the same, from the law of nature, principles of the Holy Scriptures, church history, Jure Canonico, Instrumento Pacis and Protestant states church regulations, can be presented , Hall 1724 (2nd edition 1729, 3rd Edition 1750)
  • Institutiones iuris feudalis , Halle 1730
  • De iuribus et iudice competente legatorum, of the law and actual judge of the delegates, dissertatio iuris gentium et publici universalis , Halle 1745
  • De quaestione an princips et factis sui tutoris possit obligari? , Hall 1748

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen:  Fleischer, Johann Lorenz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 113 f.
  2. ↑ Cf. B. Sharon Byrd (ed.): On the history of the development of moral principles in the philosophy of the Enlightenment . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004, p. 69.
  3. ↑ Cf. Pauline Puppel: The Regentin: Guardianship in Hessen 1500-1700 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2004, p. 59f.
personal data
SURNAME Fleischer, Johann Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleischer, Johannes Lorenz; Fleischerus, Johannes Laurentius; Fleischerus, Ioannes Laurentius; Fleischerus, Joannes Laurentius; Butcher, Jean Laurent; Fleischerus, Iohannes Laurentius; Fleischer, Johannes Laurentius; Fleischerus, Joh. Laurent .; Fleischer, Johann L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1689
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1749
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)