Karl von Scheurlen (legal scholar)

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Karl Friedrich Christian Scheurlen , from 1839 von Scheurlen , (born March 30 or 31, 1798 in Stuttgart ; † January 4, 1850 ibid) was a German lawyer , university professor and politician .

Life

After attending school in Stuttgart and at the Evangelical Theological Seminary Maulbronn studied Scheurlen 1815 law first at the University of Tübingen , then at the University of Göttingen , where he in 1818 to Dr. jur. received his doctorate. During his studies in 1816 he co-founded the old Tübingen fraternity Arminia and in 1818 became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity . After stints in Stuttgart and Ulm , he was appointed professor for civil and criminal procedural law in 1823 , and he also gave lectures on canon law . In 1832/33 and 1837/38 he was the rector of the University of Tübingen .

In 1838 Scheurlen was elected as a member of the second chamber of the Württemberg estates . There he represented the city of Tübingen until 1844 and the Oberamt Ludwigsburg until 1848 , and he was vice-president of the second chamber for the 14th state parliament . On January 20, 1839, he was appointed Obertribunalrat at the Obertribunal Stuttgart and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in the same year , which raised him to the personal, non-hereditary nobility .

On October 3, 1842 Scheurlen accepted the office of director of the Evangelical Consistory for Württemberg, and from 1848 he was named President. He died of a heart attack .

The Württemberg Minister of the Interior, Karl von Scheurlen, is one of his children .

Publications (selection)

From 1826 to 1830 Scheurlen was co-editor of the critical journal for law in Tübingen .

  • On the drafting of statutes, in particular a civil process order for Württemberg , Tübingen 1834.
  • The State Court of Justice in the Kingdom of Württemberg, with reference to the analogous institutions in the other German federal states , Tübingen 1834.

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 781 f .
  • 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. 232-233.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tübingen Scholars' Remembrance Days ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1847, p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Scheurlen, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheurlen, Karl Friedrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Legal scholar, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1798 or March 31, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1850
Place of death Stuttgart