Karl Sell (legal scholar)

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Karl Sell , also Carl Sell (* July 20, 1810 in Darmstadt ; † July 23, 1879 in Bonn ) was a German legal scholar and professor at the University of Bonn .

Life

After attending school in Darmstadt and Wetzlar, he studied law at the Universities of Giessen and Heidelberg . During his studies in 1828 he became a member of the old Gießen fraternity Germania and in 1831 a member of the old Heidelberg fraternity Franconia . In 1844 he became an honorary member of the Bonn Wingolf . After completing his doctorate, he tried in vain for his habilitation in Bonn in 1834; However, he was habilitated in Gießen with the writing De condictionibus quaesitiones duae (Darmstadt 1834) for Roman law and there was appointed associate professor. In Bonn, after the resignation of Professor Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg on November 15, 1839 , Sell was appointed full professor of law. Friedrich von Bezold reported in his history to the University of Bonn that Sell had been called against the proposals of the faculty at the instigation of the curator Rehfues. Bezold judges him devastatingly; he calls it “a scientific zero” and speaks of a “fateful appointment”.

In addition to Roman law, the focus of his teaching was on Roman legal history and civil procedural law . In the academic year 1853/54 he was rector of the University of Bonn.

His brother Georg Wilhelm August Sell was also a professor of law.

Family / Villa Sell

Sell ​​had a marriage with Wilhelmine Schleiermacher (1813–1876), who also came from Darmstadt, from around 1840. Her father, Ludwig Johann Schleiermacher, was the Grand Ducal Hessian Senior Building Director and Director of the Grand Ducal Museum in Darmstadt . The marriage had three children, one of whom died in infancy. After his appointment at the end of 1839, Sell settled in Bonn, the landscape of which he had considered "paradise" and "unattainable happiness" since his studies. Around 1843/44 he had a classicist- picturesque villa built on the banks of the Rhine . There he met one of his former students, Ernst Zitelmann , who, after Sell's death (1879) and being appointed professor in Bonn in 1883, moved into the villa in the fall of 1884 and acquired it by 1891. After the Federal Republic of Germany had acquired it in 1950, it was demolished in 1953/54 for the new building of the Post Office .

Works (selection)

  • The recuperatio of the Romans. Brunswick 1837.
  • De Romanorum nexo et mancipio commentatio…. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1840.
  • Source studies of Roman law. Bonn 1846.
  • Roman doctrine of rights in rem or property rights. First part. 2nd Edition. König-Verlag, Bonn 1852.
  • Outline of the institutions of Roman law. 4th edition, Bonn 1871.
  • The actio de rupitiis sarciendis of the XII tablets and their cancellation by the lex Aquilia . Bonn 1877.
  • Outline of Roman legal history. 4th edition, Bonn 1879.
  • From the Noxal law of the Romans. Bonn 1879.
  • With Georg Wilhelm August Sell (ed.): Yearbooks for historical and dogmatic processing of Roman law. 3 vol., Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1841–1844.

literature

  • Friedrich von Bezold: History of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität from its foundation to the year 1870. Marcus & E. Webers Verlag, Bonn 1920.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 414-415.
  • Fritz Milkau (on behalf of the Bonn University Library): Directory of Bonn University Writings 1818-1885. In addition to an appendix containing the extraordinary doctorates. Friedrich Cohen, Bonn 1897. (Numbers 623 and 2395.)
  • Herman Haupt (Ed.): Hessian Biographies. Work of the Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse. Second volume. Dr. Martin Sendet oHG, Walluf near Wiesbaden 1973. Unchanged reprint of the 1927 edition (Hessischer Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1927). ISBN 3-500-26820-X .
  • Rector and Senate of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (Hrsg.): The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. Your rectors and famous professors. (= Karl F. Chudoba (ed.): War lectures of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn a. Rh. , Volume II). Bonn University Printing Works, Bonn 1943.
  • Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, pp. 169–171 and Volume 2, catalog (1), pp. 154–158. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of Wingolf, Lichtenberg 1991
  2. ^ History of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität from its foundation to the year 1870. p. 405.
  3. ↑ See the bibliography for this section: Die Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. Your rectors and famous professors. P. 114.
  4. ^ Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart:  Sell, Georg Wilhelm August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 680 f.
  5. ↑ digitized
personal data
SURNAME Sell, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sell, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jurist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1879
Place of death Bonn