Karl Gustav Geib

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Karl Gustav Geib
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Karl Gustav Geib (born August 12, 1808 in Lambsheim , Pfalz (Bavaria) , † March 23, 1864 in Tübingen ) was a German criminal lawyer. He was secretary and teacher to Otto (Greece) .

Life

He was born the son of the landowner Georg Valentin Geib (1775–1870) and his wife Clementine nee. Schäffer (1785-1842). The father's brother was the writer Karl Geib (1777-1852), who also gave him his first school lessons. Then Karl Gustav Geib attended the Progymnasium Grünstadt and the Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium Zweibrücken . From 1827 he studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and became a member of the now extinct Munich Corps Arminia Munich I (1827). He moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . After a short practice at the court in Frankenthal (Palatinate) , he went to Greece in 1832 with Georg Ludwig von Maurer as Secretary of the Regency. He was there in 1833 Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Justice and also acted as the king's teacher. In the summer of 1834 he returned home with Maurer. One of the fruits of this period was his first work on Greece before the arrival of King Otto. He now devoted himself to an academic career and was appointed associate professor at the University of Zurich in 1836 and full professor for criminal law as well as criminal and civil litigation in 1842 . In the fall of 1851 he was offered a position at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He died in Tübingen at the age of 55.

Geib's older brother was the lawyer and revolutionary Ferdinand Geib . His sister Emilie had married Baron Lambert Joseph von Babo in Weinheim. Geib himself married Luise geb. Abegg, a daughter of the theologian Friedrich Abegg and Wilhelmine Abegg born. Bricklayer. His wife was a niece of the aforementioned Georg Ludwig von Maurer. Among her children was the Tübingen professor of Roman law Otto Geib .

Works

  • Representation of the legal status in Greece during the Turkish rule and until the arrival of King Otto I. Heidelberg in 1835.
  • History of the Roman criminal trial up to Justinian's death . Leipzig 1842.
  • The reform of German legal life . Leipzig 1848.
  • Textbook of German Criminal Law , 2 vols. Leipzig 1861–1862 ( online  - Internet Archive ), unfinished.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 169/7
  2. ^ Genealogical website
personal data
SURNAME Geib, Karl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Legal scholar, secretary and teacher of King Otto of Greece, rector in Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Lambsheim , Rhine Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1864
Place of death Tübingen