Karl Friedrich Zepernick

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Karl Friedrich Zepernick (born October 22, 1751 in Halle (Saale) , † July 5, 1839 in Stichelsdorf ) was a German jurist and judge . In 1815 he became a royal Prussian higher regional judge and senior of the Schöppenstuhl in Halle. Zepernick was appointed the last salt count .

Life

family

Karl Friedrich was the son of Christian Friedrich Zepernick, who originally came from Spandau near Berlin . Christian Friedrich had received civil rights in Halle and was a respected and wealthy citizen of the city as a pharmacist , eight man and Pfänner . With the acquisition of a manor , he also became the heir to Stichelsdorf. In Halle he owned, among other things, the Marktschlößchen since 1746 , a representative Renaissance building on the market square in which he had housed his pharmacy. Karl Friedrich was born in this house. His brother Christian Zepernick became a doctor and doctor of medicine . For many years he was President of the Natural Research Society in Halle .

Professional background

Karl Friedrich first visited the Latina in Halle and later the pedagogy of the orphanage of the Francke Foundations . At the age of 17 he began studying law at the University of Halle . In 1773 he received his doctorate in both rights with the dissertation Inavgvralis Ivridica De Testamenti Destitvti Viribvs . One of his teachers at the university was Daniel Nettelbladt , who strongly influenced him with his ideas. Shortly after completing his doctorate, he himself began lecturing as a private lecturer in Roman law at the Faculty of Law at Halle University, but gave up his academic career completely in 1780.

As early as 1777, Zepernick was appointed assessor of the Schöppenstuhl in Halle, as well as the associated mountain and valley courts. He wrote his first legal works on Roman law and feudal law . In 1779 he published the work of Kaspar Achatius Beck , Professor of Law at the University of Jena , which he revised with extensive comments and his own treatises. In 1783 his Delectus scriptorium nevellas Justiniani illustratium appeared , a work on the Justinian novellas and five years later a treatise on the authenticity (imperial laws). From 1781 to 1783 his Kollectaneen zum Lehnrecht , a collection of articles by various authors on feudal issues, appeared. In 1785 Zepernick was appointed salt count, city court director and city ​​schultheiß . The solemn swearing- in in these offices took place on September 13, 1785. As early as 1783, the previous mountain and valley court and the quadrilateral office of the town hall were merged into a new jurisdiction, the Halle city court, by a royal Prussian ordinance. This city court was now taken over by Zepernick as director and city school council. With a comprehensive Prussian judicial reform, the general land law for the Prussian states came into force in 1794 , which was now also applied at Hallesche Stadtgericht.

The constitution of the city court remained in place until 1808. In that year, after the defeat of Prussia by Napoleon in 1806, the city ​​of Halle was incorporated into the newly created Kingdom of Westphalia . As a result, the Westphalian court system was introduced. As a district town with 18 cantons, Halle became the seat of a tribunal of first instance. The Great Criminal Court of the Saale Department was now in Halberstadt and the Court of Appeal in Kassel . Zepernick was installed as President of the Tribunal Court in Halle. After the victory over Napoleon in the Wars of Liberation and Halle's reintegration into the Prussian state, Zepernick was appointed by the Prussian judicial administration to the higher regional judge in Halberstadt. However, he declined this office thanks to his advanced age. Nevertheless, because of his merits, he was given the character of a royal Prussian higher regional judge with a very high cabinet order . Associated with this was an annual pension of 500 thalers . Despite his retirement, he kept the senior position in Halle's Schöppenstuhl and the office of salt count.

In retirement he devoted himself primarily to his second passion, numismatics . He owned a valuable coin collection and was a member of the Thuringian-Saxon History Association. In 1822 his work The Capitels- und Sedisvakanzmünzen and Medals of the German ore, high and immediate imperial donors appeared , collected and described with 16 copper plates , which he supplemented and corrected in 1825. Supplements appeared in 1834. His work was re-published as a reprint in 1999 as part of Edition Numis . On October 8, 1823, he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a doctor. The Law Faculty of the University of Halle honored him with the renewal of his diploma, which was ceremoniously presented to him in a silver capsule by the Dean of the Faculty, Christian Friedrich Mühlenbruch . At the inauguration of the new university building in Halle on October 31, 1834, the Philosophical Faculty made him an honorary doctor of philosophy. 1835 marked the 50th anniversary of his appointment as city court director and salt count, the latter a title or office that was no longer awarded after his death. Honored by the saltworkers' brotherhood in the valley of Halle, the Halloren , he was also presented with a silver trophy from the pancake. A deputation from the Oberbergamt in Halle awarded him on behalf of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the Red Eagle Order III. Class.

He spent his years of age in his town house, the Marktschlößchen, in Halle, but also on the manor in Stichelsdorf, inherited from his father. There he died on July 5, 1839 at the age of 87. He was buried on the Stadtgottesacker in Halle on July 8, 1839, with great sympathy from the citizens. His grave is located in crypt arch No. 27. The hereditary burial , in which his father and brother were also buried, was acquired by his maternal great-grandfather in 1662. The Halloren gave him the last escort . Shortly after his death, his wife, following an old tradition, gave the Halloren a silver cup. In his will, Zepernick decreed that the land belonging to him in front of the Steintor in Halle, which he bequeathed to the market church of Our Lady in Halle and of which he was the church father or chief church father from 1798 to 1821, would remain undeveloped forever under the name Zerpernicks Breite . The field covered about 33 acres . This led to considerable legal problems later when the Prussian state acquired the area in 1874 for 405,000 marks and built the university clinic on the site.

Marriage and offspring

Karl Friedrich Zepernick married Magdalena Wilhelmine Glück on December 27, 1781 in Halle (born June 4, 1757 in Halle). The couple had several children, all of whom died before their parents. One son, Friedrich Wilhelm Zepernick, shot himself as a student of law (cand. Jur.) And ausculator at the age of 26 in 1815 . He was able to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with his wife in December 1831 . She died a few weeks after him, on August 13, 1839, and was also buried on Stadtgottesacker in crypt arch 27.

Fonts

author

  • Supplements to the additions and corrections to the experiment on the Capitels and Sedis vacancy coins and medals of the German ore, high and free imperial donors. Gebauer, Halle 1834.
  • Additions and corrections to the experiment on the Capitels- and Sedisvacanzmünzen and medals of the German ore, high and free imperial donors. Gebauer, Halle 1825.
  • The capitels and sedis vacancy coins and medals of the German arch, high and immediate imperial donors. Gebauer, Halle 1822, or as a reprint : Münzhandel und Verlag Strothotte, Gütersloh 1999; ISBN 3-9804467-7-8 .
  • Libellorvm Avthenticas Codicis Rep. Prael. Earvmqve Historiam Illvstrantivm. Heller, hall 1788.
  • Delectus scriptorum novellas Justiniani illustrantium. Hall 1783.
  • Inavgvralis Ivridica De Testamenti Destitvti Viribvs. ( Dissertation ), Hendel, Halle 1773–1774.

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  • Miscellanous to feudal rights. Hendel, Halle 1787–1794.
  • Collection of exquisite treatises from the Lehnrechte. Verlag der Rengerschen Buchhandlung, Halle 1781–1783.
  • Caspar Achatii Beck Olim Serenissimorvm Saxoniae Dvcvm Conciliarii Avlici Et Antecessoris Ienensis De Novellis Leonis Avgvsti Et Philosophi Earvmqve Vsv Et Avctoritate Liber Singvlaris. Hendel, Halle 1779.

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SURNAME Zepernick, Karl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zepernick, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and judge
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1839
Place of death Stichelsdorf