Julius Abegg

Julius Abegg

Julius Friedrich Heinrich Abegg (born March 27, 1796 in Erlangen , † May 29, 1868 in Breslau ) was a German criminal lawyer .

Life

Julius Abegg was the son of the pastor of the German Reformed Church in Erlangen, Johann Wilhelm Abegg (1768–1806). The doctor and obstetrician Heinrich Abegg was his son. The chemist Richard Abegg , the Prussian politician Wilhelm Abegg and the administrative lawyer Waldemar Abegg were his grandchildren.

Abegg studied at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen , the Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg and the University of Landshut . In Landshut he became a member of the Corps Suevia in 1818 . After a year in legal practice with the district judge Wolfgang Puchta and Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach at the district court Erlangen, he continued his studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . There he heard lectures by Friedrich August Biener , Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Karl von Savigny . As a qualified lecturer , he went to the Albertus University of Königsberg for the winter semester of 1820/1821 .

In Konigsberg he was appointed in 1821 associate professor and in 1824 to o. Professor appointed. In 1826 he followed the call of the Royal University of Wroclaw . He was elected rector for the academic years 1837/38 and 1853/54 . In 1833 the University of Erlangen awarded him an honorary doctorate ( Dr. iur. Hc ). However, he did not accept the call to Erlangen the following year. Abegg remained connected to the University of Wroclaw until his death at the age of 73.

Through his extraordinary accuracy in the critical treatises and his historical and philosophical education Abegg influenced the penal codes of the individual German states that were being created during this period. In the years from 1826 he was one of the first to represent Hegel's philosophy in law. Here he developed a principle of justice that brought together absolute and conceptual theories of criminal law on one basis. The modern conception of criminal law still allows Abegg's ideas to shine through.

Works

• On the punishment of crimes committed abroad. An attempt . Landshut 1819 ( online ).
• System of criminal law science . Neustadt an der Orla 1826 (Reprint Keip, Goldbach 1996, ISBN 3-8051-0290-9 ).
• Investigations in the field of criminal law . Breslau 1830 (Reprint Detlev Auvermann, Glashütten i. Ts. 1971).
• The various theories of criminal law in their relationship to one another and to the positive right and its history. A criminalist treatise . Neustadt ad Orla 1835 (Reprint Sauer & Auvermann, Frankfurt / M. 1969).
• Textbook of the common criminal trial . Neustadt an der Orla 1833 (Reprint Keip, Goldbach 1996, ISBN 3-8051-0358-1 ).
• Textbook of criminal law science . Neustadt an der Orla 1836 (Reprint Keip, Goldbach 1996, ISBN 3-8051-0322-0 ).
• Contributions to the criminal trial legislation . Neustadt an der Orla 1841 (Reprint Keip, Goldbach 1996, ISBN 3-8051-0373-5 ).

literature

• Albert Teichmann :  Julius Friedrich Heinrich Abegg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 5-7.
• Reinhart Maurach :  Abegg, Julius Friedrich Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 6 ( digitized version ).
• Reinhart Maurach : Julius Friedrich Heinrich Abegg , in: Roderich von Stintzing : History of German jurisprudence . 3rd department of Ernst Landsberg . 2nd Half Vol., 1910, pp. 699-672.
• Karl Witte, Nekrolog in: Vol. 2 of the German Dante Yearbook, p. 409 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Abegg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Julius Abegg  in the German Digital Library
• Julius Abegg in the Internet Archive
• Works by JFH Abegg in the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 178/75
2. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)