Leopold August Warnkönig
Leopold August Warnkönig (born August 1, 1794 in Bruchsal , † August 19, 1866 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer .
Life
Warnkönig studied in Heidelberg with Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut and then worked as an associate professor in Göttingen . In 1817 he moved to the University of Liège , from 1827 to 1830 he worked at the Imperial University of Leuven , in Belgium, ruled by the Netherlands , which at that time brought many German legal scholars to Belgium. Warnkönig dealt with pandect science and the historical school of law and was considered the best-known German lawyer in the Belgian service. After the Belgian Revolution in 1830 he was a member of the Legislative Commission for Education in Ghent . In 1836 he took over the chair for natural, constitutional and international law from Johann Michael Franz Birnbaum at the University of Freiburg and held it until 1844. After that he was professor of canon law at the University of Tübingen until his retirement in 1856 . In 1846 he became a member of the Stuttgart Freemason Lodge to the three cedars . In 1859 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Works
His most important work was the textbook Institutiones juris Romani on Roman law :
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Institutiones juris Romani privati, in usum praelectionum academicarum vulgatae cum introductione in universam iurisprudentiam et in studium iuris romani.
- 1st edition under the title Institutionum seu Elementorum juris Romani privati liber quatuor. PJ Collardin, Liège 1819 ( digitized version ).
- 2nd edition: Warnkoenig & Desoer, Lüttich 1825.
- 3rd edition: Adolf Marcus, Bonn 1834 ( digitized version ).
- 4th edition: Adolf Marcus, Bonn 1860 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Gisela Wild : Leopold August Warnkönig 1794–1866. A law teacher between natural law and historical school and a mediator of the German spirit in Western Europe (= Freiburg legal and political science treatises. ISSN 0429-6524 , vol. 17). CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1961.
- Johann Friedrich von Schulte : Warnkönig, Leopold August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 177 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Leopold August Warnkönig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Leopold August Warnkönig in the German Digital Library
- Literature by and about Leopold August Warnkönig in the catalog of the Ghent University Library (with proof of digital copies)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personalia of the Faculty of Law 1662–1909. University archive of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg im Breisgau, 1996.
- ^ Hermann Mayer: The University of Freiburg in Baden in the first half of the 19th century. Century . Part 2. Hanstein, Bonn 1893, p. 56 ff. ( Wikisource )
- ^ Ignaz von Döllinger : Leopold August Warnkönig (obituary) . In: Meeting reports of the royal. bayer. Academy of Sciences in Munich . tape 1 , 1867, p. 392–393 ( online [PDF; accessed May 13, 2017]).
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SURNAME | Warnkönig, Leopold August |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Warnkoenig, Léopold Auguste |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1794 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruchsal |
DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1866 |
Place of death | Stuttgart |