Johannes Christiansen

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Johannes Christiansen (born March 31, 1809 in Schleswig ; † March 19, 1854 in the Duchy of Holstein ) was a German legal scholar and member of parliament.

biography

From 1823 Christiansen attended the Schleswig Cathedral School , where his later brother-in-law Georg Beseler was a classmate. After graduating from high school in 1828 , he enrolled at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn for law. There he met Johann Caspar Bluntschli . The source-critical method of the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, who teaches in Bonn, was particularly important for its further development . After moving to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (1829), he heard lectures from Friedrich Carl von Savigny and other representatives of the historical school of law, but also from their opponent, the Hegel student Eduard Gans . In 1831 he continued his studies at his home state university in Kiel. There he passed the legal state examination in 1832 and received his doctorate in law in 1833 . From 1834 he held lectures as a private lecturer in Kiel.

In 1839 he married the English merchant's daughter Louise Sophie Simons . In 1843 he became an associate professor in Kiel , and in 1844 a full professor . His students included Theodor Mommsen and the late Romantic poet Theodor Storm . In 1846/47 he participated as a member of the Holstein assembly of estates in the protest against the open letter of the Danish King Christian VIII , which was directed against the constitutional independence of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein ruled by Denmark . He belonged to the majority of MPs who voted for the self-dissolution of the Estates Assembly in 1846. With that he lost his mandate in the assembly of estates. In 1848 he was involved in the Schleswig-Holstein survey , in which his brother-in-law Wilhelm Beseler headed the provisional government. In 1848 he was elected to the Schleswig-Holstein State Assembly for the constituency Holstein 21 (Oldenburg) .

In 1850 Christiansen and Rudolf von Jhering were appointed extraordinary assessor at the Higher Appeal Court in Kiel, and in 1851/52 and 1852/53 he was rector of the CAU. In 1852 he was still dean of the law faculty, but shortly before his 45th birthday he succumbed to a nervous disorder.

meaning

Christiansen's main work, The Science of Roman Legal History (1838), caused a sensation in Romance studies , including Georg Friedrich Puchta , because of its source-critical approach . In particular in the foreword he represents legal philosophical views that represent the influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , which is why he is included in the so-called Philosophical School of Law, which dealt critically in particular with the Historical School of Law. The first volume was not followed by a sequel, especially since Christiansen devoted himself primarily to artistic interests in the 1940s. In 1843 he published the institutions of Roman law .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation: De mancipi et nec mancipi rebus
  2. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)

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personal data
SURNAME Christiansen, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christiansen, Johannes Jacob Christian Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1854
Place of death on the journey from Kiel to Lübeck