Nicolaus Adolf Westphalen

Nicolaus Adolf Westphalen (* May 7, 1793 in Hamburg ; † September 23, 1854 ibid) was a German lawyer and senior senior secretary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Life

Westphalen was born in Hamburg and attended the Johanneum School of Academics from 1805 to 1812 . He then studied jurisprudence at the Georg-August University Göttingen , received his doctorate there on March 8, 1820 to Dr. iur. utr. and on May 26th of the same year settled down as a lawyer in Hamburg.

In 1845 he was substituted for disability cases because of the increasing sickness of the senior senior secretary Ferdinand Beneke (1774-1848). At his request, he was appointed as an adjunct on December 10, 1847 and succeeded him on March 1, 1848 after Beneke's death. Westphalen held this position until his death on September 23, 1854. His brother-in-law Hermann Gries (1810-1892) was chosen as his successor .

His relief portrait is in the hall of the Hamburg City Hall .

Create

In addition to his office, Westphalen prepared scientific papers on the old Hamburg constitution and administration and their historical development. After he had published posthumous writings of the Gries family, including the Commentar on Hamburg City Law from 1603 , his two main works appeared in the years 1841 to 1846: Hamburg's constitution and administration in their gradual development up to the most recent times and history of the main basic laws of Hamburg Constitution . The first work in particular, valuable also because Westphalen was able to use the as yet undiminished holdings of the State Archives before the fire in 1842 , is essential for historical knowledge of the subject matter.

family

Nicolaus Adolf Westphalen came from an old Hamburg merchant family and was born as the youngest of six children of the Hamburg merchant Libert Westphalen (1750–1813) and Catharina Eding (1754–1806), daughter of senior Lucas Hinrich Eding (1717–1790).

On January 10, 1829, he married Johanna Gries (1800–1863), daughter of the lawyer Johann Ludwig Gries (1770–1826) and the senator's daughter Amalie Cordes (1779–1851). From this marriage 3 sons and 2 daughters were born.

The astronomer Hermann Libert Westphalen (1822–1846) was his nephew.

Fonts

Editor:

• Johann Karl Gries: The Hamburg city, heritage and rent books, considered their legal significance. Edited from the bequeathed papers by NA Westphalen, JUD Perthes and Besser, Hamburg 1830 ( books.google.de ).
• Johann Karl Gries: Commentary on Hamburg city law from 1603. From the handwritten estate of JK Gries, Dr., published by NA Westphalen, Dr. 2 volumes. Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1837.

1. Volume: Johann Karl Gries: Commentary on Hamburg city law from 1603. From the handwritten estate of JK Gries, Dr., published by NA Westphalen, Dr. First volume. Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1837 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
2. Volume: Johann Karl Gries: Commentary on Hamburg city law from 1603. From the handwritten estate of JK Gries, Dr., published by NA Westphalen, Dr. Second volume. Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1837 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

Author:

• Attempt of an orderly compilation of short records about all Hamburg state administrative authorities . Perthes & Besser, Hamburg 1828 ( books.google.de ).
• Scheme of an orderly compilation of the staff of the Hamburg state . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1837 ( books.google.at ).
• Hamburg's constitution and administration in their gradual development up to the most recent times . 2 volumes. Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1841.

1. Volume: Hamburg's constitution and administration in their gradual development up to the most recent times . Second, continuously increased and improved edition. tape 1 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1846 ( resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de ).
2. Volume: Hamburg's constitution and administration in their gradual development up to the most recent times . Second, continuously increased and improved edition. tape 2 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1846 ( resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de ).

• History of the main basic laws of the Hamburg constitution . 3 volumes (1844–1846). Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg.

1. Volume: Main receipt of the city of Hamburg . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1844 ( resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de ).
2. Volume: Regulations of the Hamburg Rath- und Bürger-Convente . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1844 ( resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de ).
3. Volume: History of the draft of the Hamburg Church Order from 1710 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1846 ( resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de ).

literature

• Hermann Joachim:  Westphalen, Nicolaus Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, p. 228.
• Friedrich Georg Buek : The Hamburg upper elders, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 390–391 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 7 , no. 4320 . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1879 ( schroeder.sub.uni-hamburg.de ).
• Wolfgang Meyer: Westphalen, Nicolaus Adolf . In: From the high school graduate register of the Johanneum 1804–1827 . Lütcke & Wulff, Hamburg 1906, p. 22 ( resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de ).
• Hildegard von Marchtaler: German gender book (=  10th Hamburg gender book . Volume 128 ). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1962, ISBN 3-7980-0128-6 , p. 461 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review of: Attempt to compile an orderly compilation of short records on all Hamburg state administrative authorities . In: Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . No. 6 . Jena January 1829, p. 41-48 ( google.at [TIFF]).
2. ↑ Continuation of the review on: An attempt at an orderly compilation of short records on all Hamburg state administrative authorities . In: Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . No. 7 . Jena January 1829, p. 49-53 ( google.at [TIFF]).

predecessor	Office	successor
Ferdinand Beneke	Senior Secretary to Hamburg 1848–1854	Hermann Gries