Paul Joseph von Riegger

Paul Josef Riegger

Paul Joseph Riegger , from 1764 Ritter von Riegger , (born June 29, 1705 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † December 2, 1775 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and teacher of state church law.

Life

Paul Joseph Riegger taught from 1733 as a university professor in Innsbruck (natural and international law, German law), from 1753 in Vienna at the University and Theresianum. For his services he was raised to hereditary nobility on January 8, 1764 by Maria Theresa as a knight of Riegger .

As an enlightener, Maria Theresa's advisor was a pioneer of the Josephine state reforms. He advocated a strict separation of constitutional and canon law by restricting the previous rights of the church and subordinating them to constitutional law. In doing so, he created the legal requirements for the abolition of torture and the witch trials .

He was the father of the lawyer and historian Josef Anton von Riegger (1742–1795).

Riegger is posthumously honored at the Maria Theresa Monument, which depicts the most important people from the area around Maria Theresa.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Riegger, Paul Joseph Ritter von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, pp. 129–133 ( digitized version ).
Johann Friedrich von Schulte : Riegger, Paul Josef von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 551-553.
Eckhart Seifert: Paul Joseph Riegger . A contribution to the theoretical foundation of Joseph's state church law (= writings on legal history . No. 5 ). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-428-02757-4 ( digitized [accessed on August 4, 2013]).
Karl Schwarz: Riegger, Paul Joseph. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 310-313. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Herbert Kalb : Riegger, Ritter v., Paul Joseph, canonist. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 581 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Entry on Paul Joseph von Riegger in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Katrin Moeller: Riegger, Paul Joseph . In: Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller, Jürgen-Michael Schmidt (eds.): Lexicon on the history of witch persecution , historicum.net

personal data
SURNAME	Riegger, Paul Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Riegger, Paul Joseph Ritter von (full name); Riegger, Paul Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lawyer and state church law teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1705
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH	December 2, 1775
Place of death	Vienna