Johann Richard von Roth

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Johann Richard von Roth

Johann Richard von Roth (born May 27, 1749 in Mainz , † December 31, 1813 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer , politician and professor .

Life

Johann Richard von Roth was born on May 27, 1749. After finishing school he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz run by the Jesuits . In 1767 he became a master of philosophy. He soon belonged to the order of the Mainz Jesuits. The order was canceled in 1773 and Roth changed his life plan. Now he studied law at the University of Mainz, the University of Heidelberg , the University of Würzburg , the University of Gießen , the University of Marburg and the University of Göttingen . He completed these studies on March 23, 1779 with a degree in law from the University of Mainz. A short time later, in December 1779, he received a position as associate professor in Mainz. In 1780 he became a doctor of law . Two years later he received a full professorship with the subjects fiefdom and state law. In 1784 he became a "real court and government councilor". On January 28, 1786, he married Franziska von Linden. In the same year he also became head of the Reich and District Archives (also: "Main Reich Archives"). As a result, he continued to rise: in 1789 he became a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt and on February 6, 1791 Emperor Leopold II raised him to the nobility for his services . His friend Maximilian Franz of Austria made sure that he in Cologne a job as a "real kurkölnischer 1791 Privy Council " and Professor of history of the Holy Roman Empire and the constitutional law in Germany at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn was offered, he but refused.

When Emperor Leopold II died on March 1, 1792 and Franz II was elected, von Roth was a member of the Mainz election delegation . When Mainz was occupied for the second time during the French Revolution in 1798 and the university had to be closed, he went to Aschaffenburg . Here Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal appointed him director of the administrative commission that looked after the university's buildings on the right bank of the Rhine . From 1802, von Roth took care of the Kurmainzer owners on the right bank of the Rhine as a member of the administrator's commission . A year later he became a councilor at the Aschaffenburg Higher Appeal Court . His job was to take care of the restructuring of the reduced state. In 1805 he became "electoral district director and regional envoy for the Upper Rhine ". He then rose to the position of secret legation councilor . On January 1, 1807 he became director of the court of lay judges in Frankfurt am Main. Two years later, the tax and chamber debt system of Kurmainz was placed under Roth's responsibility. In 1810 the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was finally founded. Under his direction of finance, the French code pénal was introduced on February 19, 1812 . So far, the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina of King Charles V from 1532 had still applied. This achievement brought him a lot of praise and encouragement in Frankfurt am Main. On November 1, 1813, the French army left Frankfurt am Main at the behest of Napoleon Bonaparte .

Johann Richard von Roth died in Frankfurt am Main on New Year's Eve 1813. He was 64 years old.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Johann Friedrich von Schulte:  Roth, Johann Richard von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 315 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Wolfgang Balzer: Mainz - personalities of city history. Volume II: Persons of religious life, persons of political life, persons of general cultural life, scientists, writers, artists, musicians. Printing and publishing house Gebr. Kügler, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-924124-03-9 , pp. 170–171.
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Johann Richard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, politician and professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1813
Place of death Frankfurt am Main