Karl Christian Kohlschütter

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Karl Christian Kohlschütter (born June 14, 1763 in Dresden ; † February 9, 1837 there ) was a German legal scholar and Saxon administrative lawyer.

Life

His father was the royal and electoral court commissioner, merchant and owner of a shop in Dresden and Warsaw, Karl Christoph Kohlschütter from Dohna ; his mother was Christina Dorothea Lippold. After the early death of his father (at the age of 43), his father-in-law, the raft commissioner Friedrich Ernst Mylius, gave him the support he needed to develop. He received his first training from private teachers in Pretzsch. After he had already enrolled on April 27, 1778, he went to the grammar school in Grimma on May 4, 1778, where he acquired the prior knowledge and in 1784 to be able to refer to the University of Wittenberg . In addition to legal studies, he attended the history lectures of Johann Matthias Schröckhs , the philosophical lectures of Gottlob Ernst Schulze and those of the theologian Franz Volkmar Reinhard . After graduating as a notary in 1788, he received his legal doctorate on April 28, 1791 .

From 1792 onwards he completed lectures on the encyclopedia , natural law , Saxon private law , and Roman law as a private lecturer and founded a learning society, the “societas juris humanoris”. On November 26, 1795 he became associate assessor at the Faculty of Law and soon afterwards associate professor of Saxon law. In 1798 he followed Reinhard's call as the second supernumerary senior consistorial advisor to Dresden, where he became court and judicial advisor in 1800, and in this function advocated a weakening of the death penalty . At the end of 1806 he became secret cabinet secretary in the cathedral monastery department of the secret cabinet and in this function oversaw the judicial and police administration, university, school, constitutional, sovereign and commercial matters.

In the time of the Wars of Liberation , Kohlschütter advocated an essay that was in favor of his king. After his return he was confirmed in his office by the king for his loyalty and awarded the civil order. As he got older, his health deteriorated and he died of complications from the flu.

progeny

From the marriage with Christiane Luise, the daughter of the Eilenburg doctor and pharmacist Dr. Kreysig have four daughters and four sons. Most prominent are his sons Ernst Volkmar (theologian), Otto (medical doctor) and Karl Ludwig (lawyer). Rudolf Julius Kohlschütter was a judicial advisor in Dresden and, together with Johann Karl Bähr, wrote the communications from the magnetic sleep life of Auguste K.'s somnambula in Dresden . Daughter Luise married the later philologist and philosopher Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus . The first-born, Emilie Kohlschütter, is the mother of Friedrich Albert von Zenker .

Selection of works

  • Propaedeutics, encyclopedia and methology of positive jurisprudence, 1797
  • Lectures on the Concept of Jurisprudence, 1798
  • Jus civile privatum quo in Saxiona Electorali utimur, in formam artis redactum, 1800
  • Monita on the draft of a new court system for the Electorate of Saxony,
  • Has the King of Saxony ever renounced this country in 1814

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kohlschütter . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 9 . Altenburg 1860, p. 650 ( zeno.org ).
  2. ^ Bähr, Johann Karl, and Rudolph Kohlschütter. Communications from the magnetic sleep life of the somnambula Auguste K. in Dresden, Dresden 1843. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Kohlschütter, Karl Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohlschütter, Carl Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and Saxon administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1837
Place of death Dresden