Karl Otto of Madai

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Karl Otto von Madai (born May 29, 1809 in Zscherben , † June 4, 1850 in Gießen ) was a German legal scholar who taught at the University of Halle and the University of Dorpat .

Life

He is the grandson of the councilor and physician Carl August von Madai . Madai attended high schools in Thorn and Potsdam . In 1828 he began to study theology in Halle, but soon switched to law. In 1832 he received his doctorate at the University of Halle with the dissertation De stellionatu to the doctor of law. His habilitation followed shortly thereafter. After he had published his monograph “The Statuliberi of Roman Law” in 1834, he was appointed associate professor the following year.

In 1837 he became a full professor in Dorpat . Due to differences with the government, he gave up this post in 1843 and initially worked as a lecturer in Berlin until, at the instigation of Grand Duchess Helene of Russia , he was drawn to the Wiesbaden court as the young Duchess of Nassau's private secretary at the end of the same year .

After the Duchess' death in 1845, he followed a repeated call to Kiel, while he had rejected appointments to Jena and Rostock. When Christian VIII's open letter appeared in 1846 , von Madai stood up for the law of the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein and took part in the opposition writing by the professors from Kiel: “State and inheritance law of the Duchy of Schleswig”. The outbreak of the March Movement in 1848 led him to Frankfurt am Main in the pre-parliament and as Bundestag envoy for Holstein in the Bundestag , whose sessions he attended until its dissolution on July 12th. In this position he tried in vain to get the Duchy of Schleswig into the German Confederation .

He then returned to academic teaching as a lecturer in Freiburg im Breisgau . The Baden May Revolution in 1849 drove him away from here because he could not make up his mind to swear an oath of allegiance to the provisional government. He fled to Switzerland and Tyrol. Seriously ill, he moved to Gießen on October 9, where he died almost a year later.

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SURNAME Madai, Karl Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madai, Karl Otto von (full name); Madai, Carl Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Zscherben near Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1850
Place of death to water