Konrad Franz Roßhirt

Johann Konrad Eugen Franz Roßhirt (born August 26, 1793 in Oberscheinfeld , † June 5, 1873 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

Roßhirt graduated from (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1809 . From 1810 he studied law at the University of Erlangen . In 1812 he was reciprocated in the Onoldia Corps . In Bayreuth in 1815 he passed the Prussian auscultation exam to be achieved there as the best of his year . In the same year he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. As early as 1816 he completed his habilitation procedure with a paper on condictio indebiti and received an extraordinary chair at the University of Erlangen a year later. In 1818 he was appointed to the University of Heidelberg , where he took up his full professorship in the summer semester of 1819. There he was primarily concerned with criminal law and criminal procedural law, but until his retirement in 1871 he also read about Roman law , Baden land law in 1810 and canon law . In 1821 he became court advisor in the Grand Duchy of Baden ; later he became a Privy Councilor and he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion . Roßhirt was repeatedly dean of the Heidelberg law faculty and in 1829, 1833, 1841 and 1861 prorector (= rector) of the University of Heidelberg. In 1825 and 1828 he was elected to the second chamber of the Baden state parliament. Friedrich von Weech describes him as a papist and ultramontan from the bottom of his soul

Roßhirt wrote primarily on criminal law, but there are also works on civil procedure law and other areas of law. His scientific work is quite extensive, but in the opinion of his contemporary colleagues not very illuminating. Robert von Mohl writes about Roßhirt in his memoirs : His knowledge was very superficial, and he was often very naked; he did his work in all kinds of subjects [...] without asserting himself anywhere. [...] He wrote incessantly; but his books, instead of being better, became increasingly miserable and unusable. He was thus a real damage to the university, not both because of what he did, for nobody took any notice, but because he blocked a proper professorship . Johann Friedrich von Schulte writes about one of Roßhirt's main works, a three-volume work on the history and system of criminal law . Here, Roßhirt shows that he was completely incapable of working methodically and in no way . Such a damning criticism, however, seems to be an exaggeration. After all, Eberhard Schmidt praises Roßhirt's emphasis on the elements of German law in German criminal law.

Fonts

• The tendency of praetoric law and its relation to civil law Hilpert, Erlangen 1812 (dissertation).
• De legitimo condictionis indebiti fundamento Palm & Enke 1818 (habilitation thesis)
• Textbook of Criminal Law Mohr and Winter, Heidelberg 1821.
• Development of the principles of criminal law Groos, Heidelberg / Leipzig 1828.
• History and system of German criminal law Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1838/39.
• Basic lines of common German civil law , Heidelberg 1840.
• History of the Dogma of Civil Law Mohr, Heidelberg 1853.
• Encyclopedia of Canon Law or the main and auxiliary sciences of Canon Law Mohr, Heidelberg 1865/67.

See also

• List of Rectors of Heidelberg University # Vice Rectors from 1802 to 1919
• List of corps student rectors

literature

• Klaus-Peter Schroeder : "A university for and by lawyers" - The Heidelberg Law Faculty in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-12053-6 , p. 130-131 .
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . Springer, Berlin a. a. 1986, ISBN 978-3-642-70761-2 , pp. 314 .
• Friedrich von Weech : Baden biographies, second part. [until 1875, letters L – Z and supplements] . Bassermann, Heidelberg 1875, p. 196-198 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 232
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 28/173.
3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
4. ↑ Von Weech, Badische Biographien Vol. 2, p. 197.
5. ^ Robert von Mohl, Memoirs I , Stuttgart 1902, p. 232f.
6. ^ Johann Friedrich von Schulte :  Roßhirt, Konrad Eugen Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 260-262.
7. ↑ so Schroeder, p. 131.
8. ↑ quoted from Schroeder, p. 131f.