Johannes Engelmann

Johannes August Engelmann (born June 25, 1832 in Mitau , † September 4, 1912 in Dorpat ) was a Baltic lawyer .

Life

Origin and family

Johannes came from a German-Baltic family. His parents were Ernst Georg Engelmann and Karoline Henriette, née Loopuyt. His son Woldemar Engelmann (1865-1942) emerged from his marriage to Elisabeth von Briskorn (1843–1912) in 1862 .

Career

Engelmann attended from 1845 to 1850, the province High School in Mitau and studied in the years 1851 to 1855 law , he was awarded a gold medal and prize dimittierte 1859 as Master of civil law.

From 1859 to 1860 he worked at the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and obtained his doctorate in Russian civil law in St. Petersburg in 1867 . Engelmann has been teaching professor of Russian constitutional and procedural law in Dorpat since 1860 . He was a real secret councilor .

Engelmann came out vehemently, but ultimately unsuccessfully, against the Russification of the university. He was considered an excellent expert on Russian law and a pioneering researcher into Russian legal history. Two times, in 1859 and 1868, he was honored in St. Petersburg with the Small Uvarov Medal Academy of Sciences . From 1864 to 1867 he was president and since 1910 honorary member of the Estonian learned society . Since 1908 he was an honorary philistine of Curonia and since 1911 an honorary member of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia in Riga .

In 1901 he was allowed to register in the Livonian Governorate Noble Family Register.

Works

• Serfdom in Russia , 1884
• Constitutional law of the Russian Empire , 1889

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Johannes Engelmann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital