Otto Mejer
Georg Alexander Otto Mejer (born May 27, 1818 in Zellerfeld , † December 24, 1893 in Hanover ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran canon lawyer.
Life
Otto Mejer was from 1842 private lecturer for constitutional and canon law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1847 he was appointed associate professor there. In the same year he accepted a call to the University of Königsberg for the chair of canon law. In 1850 he followed a call to the University of Greifswald and in 1851 to the University of Rostock . From 1874 until his retirement in 1883 he was a university professor for canon law in Göttingen and during this time also took on tasks of academic self-administration as prorector . From 1885 to 1893 Otto Mejer was president of the regional consistory of the Hanover regional church .
Works
- Propaganda, its provinces and its rights. 2 volumes, Göttingen: Dieterich 1852/53
- Digitized volume 1, copy from the Bavarian State Library
- Digitized volume 2, copy from the Bavarian State Library
- A memory of Berthold Georg Niebuhr (lecture February 5, 1966). Rostock: Stiller 1867
- Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
- Legal protection for the Lutheran church in the New Prussian provinces. Rostock: Stiller 1867
- Textbook of German canon law. 3., rework. Ed., Göttingen 1869.
- unchanged reprint Frankfurt a. M .: Minerva 1965-1966
- Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
- On the history of the Roman-German question. 3 parts in 5 volumes 1871, 2nd, unchanged. Ed. 1885
- What are we arguing about with the ultramontanes? Hamburg: Graefe 1875
- Febronius, Auxiliary Bishop Johann Nicolaus von Hontheim, and his revocation . Tubingen 1880
- Digitized at archive.org
- Introduction to German constitutional law. Freiburg i. B. [u. a.]: Mohr 1884
- Biographical: collected essays. Freiburg i. E.g .: Mohr 1886
- Göttingen student apartments: a hike through old Göttingen. Göttingen: Spielmeyer 1887 [from the Göttingen Free Press]
- Digitized version of the Göttingen University Library
- Cultural-historical pictures from Göttingen. Linden-Hanover: Manz 1889
- Digitized at archive.org
- The legal life of the German Protestant regional churches: outlines for orientation for clergy and community members. Hanover: Meyer 1889
literature
- Philipp Zorn : Mejer, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 297-301.
- Manfred Friedrich: Mejer, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 737 ( digitized version ).
- Joseph Weier: Mejer, Otto. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 1178-1179.
- Heinz Motel: Famous personalities and their connection to Göttingen. Göttingen 1993, p. 75 ff.
- Martin Otto: Otto Georg Alexander Mejer (1818-1893). In: Philipp Thull (Ed.), 60 portraits from church law. Life and work of important canonists , EOS-Verlag , St. Ottilien 2017, ISBN 978-3-8306-7824-3 , pp. 273–285.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Mejer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Otto Mejer in the German Digital Library
- Literature about Otto Mejer in the state bibliography MV
- Entry on Otto Mejer in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mejer, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mejer, Georg Alexander Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran canon lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zellerfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1893 |
| Place of death | Hanover |