Julius Albert Gruchot

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Julius Albert Gruchot (born March 19, 1805 in Frankenstein , Province of Silesia , † October 9, 1879 in Hamm ) was a German legal scholar and lawyer .

Life

Gruchot was born the son of a tax collector in Frankenstein, Lower Silesia . He attended the grammar school in Brieg , which he left with the Abitur in 1823 . From autumn 1823 to autumn 1825 he studied law at the University of Heidelberg and finished his studies in 1826 at the University of Breslau . In September of the same year he passed the first state examination in law and was accepted into the Prussian judicial service as an ausculator at the Wroclaw City Court on October 24, 1826 .

At the end of May 1829, Gruchot successfully passed the second state law examination and was appointed trainee lawyer. As such, he worked for a long time with the inquisitories in Breslau and Brieg, and as a representative of the sick inquisitor, the name for a public prosecutor at the time , in Langenbielau . The preparatory service for the third state law examination, which he had to interrupt for a long time due to a serious illness, he completed at the Regional Court of Wroclaw. At the beginning of February 1834 he passed the third state examination in law. In October 1834, Gruchot was given the management of an assistant judge in Hagen , Westphalia , where he was made an assessor in February 1835 . In the same year he was transferred to Soest as such .

In June 1847 Gruchot was appointed district and city judge in Soest and in April 1849 promoted to assistant worker at the appellate court in Hamm. In July 1853 he was appointed judge of appeal there. He remained in this position until his retirement. In 1856 he refused a higher-paid position as director of the district court in Greifswald , as did inquiries from the Prussian Ministry of Justice in 1864 and 1866 as to whether he would like to join the higher tribunal as a member .

In Hamm he had time for legal research and dealing with numerous legal colleagues. He was also given the management of the court library. In 1857 he was one of the co-founders and editors of the journal Contributions to Explanation of Prussian Law through Theory and Practice , for which he himself wrote many articles. In 1861 the law faculty of the University of Wroclaw awarded him an honorary doctorate . For health reasons he had to interrupt his judicial work for several months in 1870 and again in 1872. He felt compelled to seek his retirement, which was granted to him on April 1, 1873. For his services, he was also appointed to the Privy Council of Justice. He took over the editing of his magazine until the end of 1876. His co-editor, the lawyer Oscar Küntzel , wrote the necrology , which was published in the articles in 1880.

Julius Albert Gruchot died on October 9, 1879, at the age of 74 in Hamm. His first marriage to Auguste Huge, the daughter of tax inspector Huge from Breslau, began in 1836. His wife died a year later. In 1840 he married Elise Amecke, the daughter of the customs commissioner Amecke from Menden .

Publications (selection)

  • Prussian inheritance law, in glosses on general land law on a Roman and Germanic basis, taking into account the more recent legislation.
  • The doctrine of the payment of the monetary debt according to today's German law. Berlin 1871. ( digitized )

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SURNAME Gruchot, Julius Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenstein , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1879
Place of death Hamm