Ludwig Höpfner

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Ludwig Julius Friedrich Höpfner
Memorial plaque with a portrait on Höpfner's house in Giessen

Ludwig Julius Friedrich Höpfner (born November 3, 1743 in Gießen , † April 2, 1797 in Darmstadt ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Höpfner comes from old Hessian families of scholars. He was born in 1743 in Giessen as the son of the Giessen law professor Johann Ernst Höpfner and the maternal grandson of the law professor Johann Friedrich Wahl. From the marriage with Marianne born Thom (1751-1840) their son Georg Höpfner emerged, who also became a lawyer.

Höpfner was from 1767 professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel and from 1771 full professor for natural law , legal history and legal antiquities at the University of Giessen .

In 1781 he became a judge of higher appeal and in 1782 a secret tribunal advisor in Darmstadt. In this position, however, he did not hold a judicial office, which was usually associated with this rank, but was supposed to promote the codification in Hessen-Darmstadt and unify the state legislation.

Höpfner has been part of Goethe's circle of friends since his youth ; Höpfner did not follow his wish to come to the court as a lawyer in Weimar .

Höpfner's silhouette chair

Höpfner invented the silhouette chair on which the head of the seated person could be fixed for the purpose of creating silhouettes . Using this silhouette chair, he also made a silhouette of Goethe in 1774. The silhouettes removed in this way were reduced to the desired usable format with the help of a cork's beak.

Works

  • Natural law of the individual, societies and peoples. Casting: JC Krieger. Second, improved edition 1783
  • Theoretical-practical commentary on the Heineccian institutions according to their latest edition

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Bräuning-Oktavio : Silhouettes from the Werther period - From the estate of Johann Heinrich Voss and Carl Schubert's book of silhouettes. Wittich, Darmstadt 1926, p. 47
  2. ^ Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Fine Arts, Volume 17, Leipzig 1924, p. 212.
personal data
SURNAME Höpfner, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höpfner, Ludwig Julius Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1797
Place of death Darmstadt