Otto Göschen

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Otto Göschen (born July 10, 1808 in Berlin , † September 30, 1865 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The son of the legal scholar Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen (1778-1837) completed a law degree at the University of Göttingen . For a short time he then became a lawyer, but soon became an assistant at the library in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in law in 1832 with the dissertation De adquisitione per eum qui serviat . He completed his habilitation in 1833 at the University of Berlin , where he became an associate professor in 1839 .

After he had turned down a call to the University of Basel , he was accepted into the Spruchkollegium in spring 1841 and went to the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1844 as a full professor of canon law and German private law . There he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1860/61 .

Above all in the literary field, he has made a name for himself, has appeared as an editor and wrote the article marriage in the first edition of the Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church .

Göschen was married to Anna, the daughter of the Prussian minister of culture, Johann Albrecht Friedrich von Eichhorn .

Works

  1. The goslarian statutes. Berlin 1840
  2. The Saxon land law according to the Ouedlinburg parchment manuscript. Hall 1853
  3. Doctrina de matrimonio ex ordinationibus saec. XVI adumbrata. Hall 1859

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