Karl von Richthofen

Karl Otto Johannes Theresius Freiherr von Richthofen (born May 30, 1811 in Damsdorf ; † March 7, 1888 in Damsdorf) was a German legal historian and lawyer .

Life

Karl von Richthofen was a German philologist and made a special contribution to Frisian legal history. He also taught constitutional law from 1841 to 1860 at the law faculty of the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Freiherr von Richthofen belongs to the old Silesian family Richthofen . In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

Library

Richthofen's posthumous reference library of 4,250 volumes was acquired by Columbia University's law school in 1926 .

family

Karl von Richthofen came from the noble family of Richthofen . His father was Karl von Richthofen (1787–1841) , heir to Brecheishof, Bersdorf, Rosen, Damsdorf, Tscharnikau, etc., as well as the Prussian district administrator of the Jauer district. His mother was Therese Freiin Grote (1791-1811) from the Grabow family, she was the daughter of the Hanover State Minister Freiherr Otto Ulrich Grote (1750-1808) and Charlotte von Plato (1757-1821). His younger brother was the MP Ernst von Richthofen . His first wife was Sophie von Lützow (1816–1855) in Glogau in 1840 , the daughter of the Prussian general Leopold von Lützow . The following children were born from this marriage:

• Karl Friedrich (1842–1916), manor owner and member of the German Reichstag
• Irmgard (1853–1910) ⚭ 1879 Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905)

After the death of his first wife, he married Sophie von Frankenberg (1818–1879), daughter of Major Heinrich von Frankenberg and Friederike von Richthofen, in Berlin in 1857 . His third wife was Elfriede Freiin Grote (1848–1930) in Berlin in 1879 , daughter of Karl Freiherr Grote and Charlotte von Frankenberg .

Fonts

• 1840: Frisian legal sources ( digitized version ) (PDF file; 52.79 MB)
• 1840: Old Frisian dictionary
• 1863: Lex Frisionum (in Monumenta Germaniae Historica )
• 1880–1886: Studies on Frisian legal history (three parts)
  • 1st part (PDF file; 30.34 MB)
  • 2nd part 1/2 (PDF file; 36.70 MB)
  • 2. Part 2/2 (PDF file; 43.03 MB)
  • 3rd part (PDF file; 6.33 MB)
• 1886: The older Egmond historical sources

literature

• Conrad Borchling :  Richthofen, Karl Otto Johannes Theresius Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 346-353.
• Kastl, Katrin:  Richthofen, Karl Otto Johannes Theresius Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 542 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 256.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl von Richthofen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ American law school review 6 (1926), p. 741.