Karl Ferdinand Schmid

Karl Ferdinand Schmid , contemporary Carl Ferdinand Schmid , (born February 26, 1750 in Eisleben , † April 1, 1809 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Born as the son of the Saxon Mountain commission rates Johann Christian Schmid , he entered the school of his hometown, studied from 7 October 1766 of the University of Leipzig , moved in 1772 to the University of Wittenberg and a doctorate here on 12 January 1778 as Licentiate and Doctorate of Law Sciences. Acquired the license to teach at universities, as Magister Legens, on April 20, 1778 and on April 30 of the same year, the philosophical master's degree .

After he had applied for the extraordinary professorship of nature and international law in 1779 , Elector Friedrich August I appointed him to this chair on November 10, 1779. In this function he held lectures on practical philosophy, morality, politics, nature and international law, constitutional law, legal history, history of German law, the Twelve Table Law, military law, anthropology, household art and he conducted the natural law, which was widely read at the time, at the Wittenberg Academy Ludwig Julius Friedrich Höpfner , with which he underpinned a practical aspect of philosophy in the theory of natural law.

In 1783 Schmid became a full professor of moral philosophy and politics. Despite all of this, he continued to give lectures on nature and international law until the 19th century. Schmid also appeared as a poet, whose works were published in the "Wandsbecker Boten" and other books, for which he was awarded the poet's crown on April 30, 1789 . He has also acted for the fate of the Wittenberg University, to he held in the summer semester 1788 and 1806 and in the winter semesters 1801 and 1803, the Rector of the university.

Schmid had owned the Ammelgoßwitz manor since 1796 . He died in 1809 at the age of 59 without leaving a will. So the manor fell equally to his three underage daughters.

Christian Heinrich Schmid (born November 24, 1746 in Eisleben; † July 22, 1800 in Gießen), legal scholar, literary scholar and rhetorician, was his older brother. The Thuringian mountain bailiff Ernst Rudolph Wilhelm Schmid was his youngest brother.

Selection of works

• De dominii acquisitione per procuratorem. Wittenberg 1778
• De utilitate Juris naturare. Wittenberg 1779
• Sixteen odes to Horace. Leipzig 1774
• Women's cave. Hamburg 1773
• New year gift for my friends. Leipzig 1775–1782
• Sayings. Wittenberg 1783

swell

• Matriculation of the University of Wittenberg

literature

• Karl Heinrich Dzondi (Schundenius): Memories of the festive days of the third foundation ceremony of the Academy in Wittenberg. P. 88
• Wittenberger Wochenblatt. 1779, p. 400; 1783 p. 351
• New Wittenberger Wochenblatt. 1809, p. 97
• Friedrich August Weiz: The learned Saxony or directory of those writers now living in the electoral Saxon and incorporated countries and their writings.
• Nikolaus Müller: The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg. Evangelical bookstore Ernst Holtermann, Magdeburg 1912
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Schmid, Karl Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 675.