Karl Heinrich Geisler

Karl Heinrich Geisler, also: Geissler (* May 12, 1742 in Pforta ; † November 4, 1789 in Wittenberg ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Born as the son of the teacher and cantor at the grammar school in Schulpforte Gottlob Geisler, he enjoyed his first solid education at the grammar school in his home town. On June 4, 1762 he began to study philosophy at the University of Leipzig , was there on December 17, 1763 Baccalaureus and on February 21, 1765 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. Initially, he wanted to devote himself to studying theology, but switched to law.

He was entrusted with the care of a young Danish nobleman in Leipzig and after he had acquired the right to hold academic lectures on March 12, 1768, he found access to the law faculty on May 28, 1768 as a baccalaureate of law. Here he received his doctorate on April 10, 1770 with the dissertation de conjunctione comitum Holsatiae cum ducatu Saxoniae (2nd part) as a doctor of law and shortly thereafter became an electoral lawyer. In the same year he was appointed to the University of Erlangen as the fifth full professor of constitutional law.

He began this task on April 13, 1771 with his inaugural speech De interpretatione pacis Westphalicae and was associated with it as a councilor. In 1775 he followed a call as a professor of constitutional law at the University of Marburg , where he became a Hessian government councilor. In 1783 he went to the University of Göttingen as Professor of Law , as a British-Hanoverian Councilor. In the Electorate of Saxony, efforts were therefore made to win over the former son of the state to work in his home country.

In return he was offered a well-endowed chair at the University of Wittenberg . There he became professor of constitutional law in 1784, full professor of the law faculty at the Wittenberg University, court councilor of the Electorate of Saxony, director of the Wittenberg consistory, assessor of the court and Schöppenstuhl. Geisler died as a highly respected constitutional lawyer.

In 1776, Geisler was accepted into the Masonic lodge "Zum krönten Löwen" in Marburg.

Selection of works

Diss. De pecunia in feudo constituta. Leipzig 1770
Commentatio de gravaminibus religionis auctoritate iudrciorum Imp. Tollendis. Erlangen 1771
De interpretatione pacis Westphalicae Commentatio I Erlangen 1771. Comment. II. Marburg 1775. Comment. III. Marburg 1776
Diss, de hypotheca tacita domini ex caussa canonis emphyteutici. Erlangen 1773
Progr. De iudicio super religione aliorum ferendo. Marburg 1779
Progr. De loco iuvestiturae breves animadversiones. Marburg 1779
Progr. De antiquitatibus iuris publici ex disciplina Byzantina repetendis. Marburg 1779
Progr. Nonnulla de retractu gentilitio inter Nobiles Imperii, immedatos ex privileges statutisque equestribus non fundando. Marburg 1780
Progr. De iure fisci civitatura Imperii. Marburg 1780
Diss, de consociatione bonomm divisorum. Marburg 1780
Commentationes de Landsassiatu LI Frankfurt 1731
Diss. De feudo emtitio. Marburg 1782
Progr. De potestate Imperatoris ordinandi regimen bonorum ecclesiasticorum imp. immediatorum. Goettingen 1783
Progr. Observationes nonnullae de protocollis comitialibus. Goettingen 1734
Progr. De analogia iuris publici. Wittenberg 1784
Animadveisionmn ex iure universo depromtarum spicilegium I. Wittenberg 1787
Diss .. (Resp. Auctore Chrpb. Car. Stübel) de fatis-factione personis inprimisque seminis illustribus de iniurais acceptis praestanda. Wittenberg 1788
Diss. (Resp. Auctore Christi. Ern. Franck) de legato rei commercio exemtae. Wittenberg 1788

literature

Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig 1804, Vol. 4, pp. 71–72 ( Google book search )
Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Section 1, Part 56, p. 230
Georg Erler: The younger matriculation of the University of Leipzig 1559-1809. Vol. 3

Individual evidence

↑ Stefan Redies: Freemasons, Knights Templar and Rosicrucians: on the history of the secret societies in Marburg in the 18th century . Tectum, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-8288-9002-4 , p. 83.

personal data
SURNAME	Geisler, Karl Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Geissler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH	School gate
DATE OF DEATH	November 4, 1789
Place of death	Wittenberg

[1] Stefan Redies: Freemasons, Knights Templar and Rosicrucians: on the history of the secret societies in Marburg in the 18th century . Tectum, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-8288-9002-4 , p. 83.