Karl Solomon Zachariae

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Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, detail from a lithograph after a portrait drawn in 1843

Karl Salomo Zachariae (also: Zachariae von Lingenthal ; born September 14, 1769 in Meißen ; † March 27, 1843 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar.

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Karl Salomo Zachariae was the son of a respected lawyer and patrimonial court director . At the age of 15 he attended the Saxon princely school St. Afra . On January 27, 1787, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig , where he initially devoted himself to philosophical studies. On May 7, 1792 Zachariae went to the University of Wittenberg , where he was in contact with Novalis and Theodor Hell . On April 30, 1794, Zachariae acquired the academic degree of a Magister and found with the acquisition of the teaching qualification on April 30, 1795, as a baccalaureate of law , admission to the law faculty, where he held philosophical and legal lectures.

On June 30, 1795 he received his doctorate in law, on November 27, 1800 Karl Salomo Zachariae was appointed associate professor at the law faculty of the University of Wittenberg and on July 29, 1802 full professor there. Zachariae became assessor at the Schöppenstuhl in Wittenberg and assessor at the Lower Lusatia regional court in Lübben . Zachariae developed a lively literary activity in Wittenberg.

In 1806, Karl Salomo Zachariae was appointed professor of law at the University of Heidelberg , which he followed at Easter 1807. There Zachariae published his handbook of French civil law in 1808 and delved into issues of political science in particular . In 1816 Zachariae received a call to Göttingen and in 1829 a call to Leipzig , both of which he refused. Instead, he campaigned for the preservation and further development of the University of Heidelberg, which he formulated in his book For the preservation of the University of Heidelberg .

As a law professor at Heidelberg University, Zachariae was also involved in the political affairs of the state of Baden . As a representative of the new political doctrine and successor to the court councilor Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut , who voluntarily resigned from his mandate , Zachariae was elected to the University of Heidelberg as a member of the first chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly. He worked on the draft of the Baden Criminal Code of 1824/26, was involved in the constitution of the Baden land law and became a member of the Baden Legislative Commission. In 1818 he was appointed court advisor for his services . In 1825 and 1828 Zachariae was also an elected member of the Second Chamber. In 1829 Zachariae withdrew from his political engagement, but still worked at the University of Heidelberg, where he continued to give his lectures. In 1842 Zachariae was raised to the nobility and then carried the name affix of Lingenthal chosen after his country estate in Lingental near Heidelberg .

He had two children, namely a daughter who died young and the son Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal , who made a name for himself as a legal historian and as a promoter of the railroad in Prussia.

Fonts (selection)

  • The unity of the state and the church with regard to the German Imperial Constitution , 1797
  • Christian Gottlob glasses. Wittenberg: Meltzer, 1801
  • Foundations of private philosophical law. In addition to an introduction to philosophical law in general. Wittenberg: Summer, 1804
  • Attempt at a general hermeneutics of law. Meissen: Erbstein, 1805
  • The science of legislation. 1806
  • Ius publicum civitatum, quae foederi Rhenano adscriptae sunt. Mohr and Zimmer, 1807
  • French Civil Law Manual. 3 volumes, 1808–1827
  • The constitutional law of the Rhenish federal states and the Rhenish federal law explained in a series of treatises in 1810
  • Developed for the maintenance of the University of Heidelberg / on behalf of the university's teachers. Heidelberg: Mohr and Winter, 1817
  • Forty books on the state. 3 volumes. Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta, 1820
  • Political considerations on Cicero's recovered work Vom Staate (1823). (Reprint: Kessinger Pub Co 2010)
  • Criminal Code: draft; with e. Presentation of the basics of the design . Osswald, Heidelberg 1826 ( digitized version )
  • The struggle of landed property against landed lordship. Represented and judged . Heidelberg: Oßwald, 1832
  • Lucius Cornelius Sulla, known as the lucky one, is depicted as the steward of the Roman free state. Heidelberg: Oßwald, 1834
  • Legal opinion on the claims of August von Este, the legitimate son of Sr. KH of the Duke of Sussex, to the title, dignities and rights of a prince of the House of Hanover. Heidelberg 1834 ( digitized version )
  • Treatises from the field of economics. Heidelberg, Oßwald 1835
  • Forty books from the state , revised edition, 7 volumes, 1839–1843

literature

  • William Fischer:  Zachariae, Karl Solomo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 646-652.
  • Karl Salomo Zachariae: Autobiography [around the year 1823]. In: Karl Eduard Zachariä von Lingenthal (ed.): Biographical and legal estate of Dr. Karl Solomon Zachariä v. Lingenthal. Cotta, Stuttgart 1843, pp. 3–53 (this is followed by comments by the editor, his son, which also contain a catalog raisonné with 148 numbers)
  • Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Year 21, 1843, Part 1, Voigt, Weimar 1845, No. 84, pp. 245-251 ( online )
  • Friedrich von Weech : Baden biographies . Volume 2, Bassermann, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 524-532
  • Meyers Konversationslexikon. 4th edition, Volume XVI, p. 812 ( online )
  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer publishing house , Halle (Saale) 1917
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932. Springer, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-540-15856-1 , p. 307
  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of the Palatinate personalities. 2nd edition, Hennig, Edenkoben 1998, p. 783

Web links

Commons : Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Karl Solomon Zachariae  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Kiefer: 1200 Years of Leimen 791–1991. Leimen 1991, p. 68.
  2. ↑ Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden: a newly edited nobility book, Baden-Baden, 1886, page 559.
personal data
SURNAME Zachariae, Karl Solomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zachariae von Lingenthal, Karl Salomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1843
Place of death Heidelberg