Johann Ludwig Gries

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Johann Ludwig Gries (born January 20, 1770 in Hamburg ; † October 29, 1828 there ) was a German lawyer and advocate .

Life

Ludwig Gries was born on January 20, 1770 in Hamburg and baptized there on January 23, 1770. Gries received his education first from private teachers, then at the learned school of the Johanneum and from 1789 at the academic high school in Hamburg. At Easter of 1790 he began his studies of jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen and graduated on September 22, 1792 Doctor of Law from. He returned to Hamburg, where he worked as a lawyer and was a member of the Patriotic Society from 1765 . He died in 1828 at the age of 58.

In 1865, Joseph Ludwig de Bouck (1804–1882) donated Gries' collection of writings to the Hamburg State and University Library . During the Second World War these were relocated, later sent to Moscow and returned in November 1990.

Act

After Gries had already written his dissertation on Hamburg commercial law in 1792 , he deepened the topic and published his respected work on Hamburg constitutional law in relation to external and internal commercial law in 1795. It describes and explains the trading privileges that Hamburg had in the Holy Roman Empire , which trade agreements and alliances the city entered into, which peace treaties were made and what effects these had on trade. He also describes the internal trade policy and describes the roles of the citizenship in Hamburg, the restriction of the nobility in the city and compares the Hamburg constitution with that of other free and imperial cities . A continuation of this work was planned, but the second part was not published.

Towards the end of the 18th century, many brochures, leaflets and articles were published in Hamburg about the decay of morals, the waste of money and the general grievances in the city. “Out of love for his hometown,” he says himself, Gries published his work in 1800: Are the accumulated complaints of recent writers about Hamburg fair? In his opinion, they weren't. He states that in Hamburg the honesty , patriotism and charity of the citizens far outweigh the vices of individuals.

When the French suddenly moved into Hamburg in 1806 and the soldiers had to be accommodated, the council formed a billeting deputation consisting of 5 councilors and 20 citizens. This deputation was supposed to establish rules for billeting the soldiers and to settle the disputes between the soldiers, the innkeepers and the citizens. Gries wrote a reply to a letter from Jacob Schleiden (1773-1852) about the establishment of billeting . Because of Schleiden's writing, he was threatened with a criminal trial, but it seems to have remained lying.

family

"Johann Ludwig Gries", collective grave for advocates , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Gries was the seventh child of the Hamburg councilor Franz Lorenz Gries (1731-1803) and his first wife Johanna Barbara Funk (1742-1770). His mother died shortly after he was born. His father then married Johanna Magdalena Funk (1743–1792), a younger sister of his first wife, in 1771 and had five more children with her. From this second marriage come Ludwig Gries' half-brothers Johann Michael Gries (1772–1827), who was Minister of the Hamburg Parliament in 1816 , and the translator Johann Diederich Gries (1775–1842).

Gries married Amalie Cordes (1779–1851), daughter of councilor Johann Diederich Cordes (1730–1813), on September 5, 1797 . Two of his children died young. The other two were his daughter Johanna (1800-1863), who married senior secretary Nicolaus Adolf Westphalen (1793-1854) in 1829 , and his son Hermann (1810-1892), who in 1854 was also senior secretary and successor to his brother-in-law Westphalen.

In the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery near the main entrance to the cemetery, the collective grave of advocates commemorates Johann Ludwig Gries, among others.

Works (selection)

  • My sister of the demoiselle Johanna Maria Hedewig Gries at her wedding to Mr. Heinrich Wilhelm Christian Eimbcke, Hamburg, d. October 5. 1784 . CW Meyn, Hamburg 1784.
  • Dissertatio inauguralis de studiis Hamburgensium promovendi commercia sua tam in jure publico quam privato conspicuis . Goettingen 1792.
  • Hamburg State and Private Law, collected and explained in relation to Hamburg's trade, by Johann Ludwig Gries, Doctor of Laws. First part, which contains constitutional law . Bohn, Hamburg 1795.
  • To my dear friend Heinrich Lampe, Doctor of Law in Bremen, at the death of his wife . Hamburg 1797 (letter to Heinrich Lampe (1773–1825) , 1818–1825 councilor of Bremen , first marriage in 1795 to Gesche Catharina Hanewinkel († 1797)).
  • Are the accumulated complaints of recent writers about Hamburg fair? Also sketches for a moral painting of Hamburg . In: Der Neue Teutsche Merkur from 1800. Edited by Christoph Martin Wieland . First volume. Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1800 ( ds.ub.uni-bielefeld.de ).
  • A few remarks on Doctoris Schleiden's writing about the current arrangement of billeting in Hamburg. A letter to a member of the Collegii Honorable Superior . University of Applied Sciences Nestler, Hamburg 1808.
  • Corrections from Hamburg, along with some church news from there . In: Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.): General church newspaper . No. 191 . Will, Darmstadt December 2, 1828, p. 1548–1551 ( books.google.de ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New members in 1793 and 1794 . In: Negotiations and writings of the Hamburg Society for the promotion of the arts and useful trades . Fourth volume. Carl Ernst Bohn, Hamburg 1797, p. 4 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Joseph Ludwig de Bouck in the catalog of the German National Library (accessed on February 3, 2015).
  3. ↑ Signature entry on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library
  4. ↑ Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (Ed.): New general German library . tape 28 , first piece, first issue. Carl Ernst Bohn, Kiel 1797, p. 74-76 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ Hamburg in the Age of Enlightenment . In: Inge Stephan u. Hans-Gerhard Winter (ed.): Hamburg contributions to public science . tape 6 . Reimer, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-496-00975-6 , pp. 32 ( books.google.de - restricted view).
  6. ↑ Garlieb Merkel (1769–1850) as a fighter, critic and project maker in Berlin and Riga . In: Jörg Drews (Ed.): Bielefelder Schriften zu Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft . tape 13 . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2000, p. 59 ff . ( books.google.de - restricted view).
  7. ^ Ernst Finder : Hamburg bourgeoisie in the past . Friederichsen, de Gruyter & Co.mbH, Hamburg 1929.
  8. ↑ Friedrich Georg Buek : The Hamburg upper elders, their civil activity and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 320–322 ( books.google.de ).
  9. ↑ Jacob Schleiden: Comments on the current establishment of billeting in Hamburg, along with suggestions for improving the same, in a letter to a member of the Collegii of the sixties . Conrad Müller, Hamburg 1808.
  10. ↑ Hans Schröder : Schleiden (Jacob) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 6 , no. 3456 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1873 ( schroeder.sub.uni-hamburg.de - facsimile on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library ). schroeder.sub.uni-hamburg.de ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / schroeder.sub.uni-hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Gries, Johann Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gries, Ludwig; Gries Johannes Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and advocate
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1828
Place of death Hamburg