Karl Gottlieb von Weber

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Karl Gottlieb Weber , from 1828 by Weber , (born August 28, 1773 in Leipzig , † July 25, 1849 in Zöschau near Oschatz ) was a German canon lawyer and administrative lawyer . He was president of the Saxon State Consistory .

Life

Weber was the son of an actuary at the University Court in Leipzig. From 1785 he attended the Leipzig Nicolaischule before he went to study law at the University of Leipzig at Easter 1790 . He dealt in particular with constitutional and historical topics. From 1792 to 1794 he was at the University of Göttingen , where he was mainly under the influence of Johann Stephan Pütter . In 1795 he passed the legal examination in Leipzig. Then he went back to Göttingen. There he presented the two-volume dissertation De vera ordinum provincialium tum in Germania generatim, tum speciatim in Bavariae ducatu epocha recte constituenda , with the first part of which he graduated with a master's degree in philosophy and with the second part a Dr. iur. received his doctorate . Then he began to give lectures in public and private law.

Weber did not pursue his academic career any further, but turned to Dresden . Already qualified by a trial work in 1798, he received a supernumerary council position in the Upper Consistory in Dresden in 1802 and moved up to the second permanent political council position in 1810. The Consistorial Councilor Weber was also a member of the police commission from 1806 to 1810, was entrusted with poor affairs and from 1814 to 1817 a member of the central committee for the care and support of orphans in the Meißnische Kreis . In 1816 he was awarded the Saxon Order of Civil Merit, and in 1828 he was raised to the hereditary Saxon nobility .

Weber was appointed 2nd Vice President and Director of the Third Senate of the Saxon Court of Appeal in Dresden in 1827. In 1829 he was promoted to 1st Vice President. In 1831 he was entrusted with the directorate of the senior consistory and accordingly appointed to the secret council . It was his task to lead the reform of the church constitution and thus the establishment of the Protestant state consistory. In 1835 he finally became president of the state consistory.

The historian Karl von Weber was his son, the publisher Hans von Weber his great-grandson.

Works (selection)

  • De iusta Henrici Illustris in Thuringia successione , Leipzig 1795.
  • De vera ordinum provincialium tum in Germania generatim, tum speciatim in Bavariae ducatu epocha recte constituenda , 2 volumes, Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1797.
  • Literature of the German State History. General literature and in particular from Austria, Bohemia and the countries of the Bavarian Circle , Crusius, Leipzig 1800.
  • Historical overview of the western borders of Germany: from the oldest to the most recent times , Hartknoch, Leipzig 1814.
  • About the forthcoming reform of the church constitution of the Kingdom of Saxony in particular with regard to the authorities for the affairs of the Protestant Church , Barth, Leipzig 1833.
  • Systematic presentation of the canon law applicable in the Kingdom of Saxony , 3 volumes, Hartknoch, Leipzig 1843–1845.

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SURNAME Weber, Karl Gottlieb from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Karl Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canon lawyer and administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1849
Place of death Zöschau near Oschatz