Joseph von Held

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Joseph Held , from 1867 Ritter von Held , (born August 9, 1815 in Würzburg , † March 19, 1890 ibid) was a German constitutional lawyer . In 1882/83 he was rector of the Royal University of Würzburg . In 1866 he was a co-founder of the Bavarian Red Cross .

Life

Held was born the son of a businessman. After high school, he studied philosophy and jurisprudence at the Royal University of Würzburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Following the state bankruptcy, he moved to the University of Heidelberg , where he became a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. The work may have been printed at the University of Erlangen . In 1838 he was at the University of Würzburg Dr. iur. utr. PhD. His legal dissertation was entitled: The marital achievement according to the popular law and legal books of the Middle Ages, compared with some Nordic legal sources .

1839 followed the habilitation (writing: De juris canonici circa usuras interdictis ) and the private lectureship . In 1841 he became an associate professor. From 1843 to 1865 he was an ordained professor for German private law, Bavarian land law and feudal law. In 1849/50 Georg Phillips was also appointed; Hero Felix Dahn followed on the chair of private law . He turned increasingly to public law; from 1851 onwards he also taught general, common German and Bavarian constitutional law, legal philosophy and international law as the successor to Hermann Müller . He taught until his death in 1890; his successor to the chair for public law was Karl Freiherr von Stengel . He was dean of the law and political science faculty nine times and held the post of rector in 1882/83 . His merit lies primarily in the field of state education and state philosophy.

Held, who was considered a liberal supporter of the constitutional monarchy based on the rule of law , applied in vain for the Würzburg seat in the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848 . Hofrat since 1863 , he was raised to the personal nobility status in 1867 by being awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was allowed to call himself "Knight of Held" after being entered in the nobility register .

He performed medical services and was a co-founder of the Bavarian Red Cross in 1866 . In 1868 he was its representative in the extension of the Geneva Convention . During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he was responsible for the wounded in the army. He has received numerous awards for his services.

His son Adolf Held , who died early, was a professor of economics in Berlin.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • About nationality. 1851.
  • System of constitutional law of the monarchical states of Germany with special regard to constitutionalism. 2 volumes, 1856/57.
  • About legitimacy. 1859.
  • State and society from the point of view of human history and the state, with special regard to the politico-social questions of our time. 1861-69.
  • France at the top of civilization ?. 1863.
  • Political and legal philosophy based on a scientific human and ethnology by Dr. Karl Vollgraff (new edition of a work by Karl Friedrich Vollgraff , 2 parts, 1864).
  • Germany. The German Confederation and the German Great Powers. 1864.
  • Basics of general constitutional law or institutions of public law. 1868.
  • The constitution of the German Reich viewed from the point of view of constitutional law, a contribution to their criticism. 1872.
  • The empire as a legal term. 1879.
  • Man as the starting point of the philosophy of law. 1883.

literature

  • Law and Political Science Faculty of Würzburg: Ceremony for the doctoral anniversary of the secret councilor and professor Dr. Joseph von Held, presented by the Law and Political Science Faculty in Würzburg. H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1888.
  • Andreas Röpke: The Würzburg Faculty of Law from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juridical writings. Volume 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , pp. 216-220.
  • Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany. Volume 2: Constitutional Law and Administrative Science, 1800–1914. Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-33061-4 , pp. 325-326.
  • A. Teichmann :  Held, Josef von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 161-163.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas Röpke: The Würzburg Faculty of Law from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juristic writings. Volume 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , p. 271.
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Röpke: The Würzburg Faculty of Law from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and teaching in Würzburg between the Restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juridical writings. Volume 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , p. 281.
  3. ↑ Andreas Röpke: The Würzburger Juristenfakultät from 1815 to 1914. Legal studies and legal studies in Würzburg between the restoration and the First World War (= Würzburg juristic writings. Volume 27). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-935556-77-2 , p. 220.
personal data
SURNAME Hero, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hero, Joseph (maiden name); Hero, Joseph Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1890
Place of death Wurzburg