August Ludwig Reyscher

Portrait of August Ludwig Reyscher, oil on canvas, painter Franz Seraph Stirnbrand , signed on the painting "Stirnbrand pinx 1846"

August Ludwig Reyscher's grave in the Steigfriedhof in Bad Cannstatt . Adorned his grave by a sandstone - stele in which a high relief - Tondo of bronze casting is recessed, which represents Reyscher in mature age. The life dates of Hugo Reyscher (* 1835, † 1907) are also stamped on the stele.

Reyscher's birthplace, the old rectory in Unterriexingen

August Ludwig Reyscher (born July 10, 1802 in Unterriexingen ; † April 1, 1880 in Cannstatt ) was a German legal scholar , politician and philhellene .

Life

August Ludwig Reyscher was born in 1802 as the son of Maria Charlotta and Karl Ludwig Reyscher in the Unterriexingen rectory. He was the fourth of six children, all of whom were also born in Unterriexingen. His father was a Protestant pastor in the village, his mother, née Lebret (also Le Bret or LeBret), was the daughter of the historian and theologian Johann Friedrich LeBret .

During his studies Ludwig Reyscher became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity in 1821 and later a member of the Feuerreiter Tübingen fraternity .

Ludwig Reyscher was appointed full professor for German law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in 1837 . From 1844 to 1845 he was its rector . Reyscher established himself as a lawyer in Stuttgart in 1851 , and in 1853 he moved his law firm to Cannstatt.

In the course of the March Revolution , Reyscher took part in the pre-parliament in 1848 , from March 31 to April 3, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt , but could not win a seat in the election to the Frankfurt National Assembly . From 1848 to 1855 he was a member of the Württemberg state parliament for Mergentheim and for Stuttgart from 1855 to 1868. From 1871 to 1872 he was a member of the Reichstag . He won his seat in the Reichstag in the constituency of Württemberg 2 ( Cannstatt , Ludwigsburg , Marbach , Waiblingen ). On May 30, 1872, he resigned from the Reichstag.

On December 24, 1842 he became an honorary citizen of Unterriexingen .

August Ludwig Reyscher was buried in the Steigfriedhof in Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt .

literature

Lampros Mygdalis: The unknown speech of a nineteen-year-old student from Tübingen for the Greeks in 1821. On the bicentenary of August Ludwig Reyscher's birthday. In: Suevica . Volume 9, 2001/2002, Stuttgart 2004 [2005], pp. 417-445, ISBN 3-88099-428-5 .
Karl Riecke : Reyscher, August Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 360-368.
Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 719 .
Joachim Rückert : Reyscher, August Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 482 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : August Ludwig Reyscher - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: August Ludwig Reyscher - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about August Ludwig Reyscher in the catalog of the German National Library
August Ludwig Reyscher in the database of members of the Reichstag
Full texts of his works at Archive.org

Individual evidence

^ Reyscher, Karl Ludwig. Retrieved November 17, 2015 .
^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 58-60.
^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 236.
^ E. Sieb: Unterriexingen in old pictures. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1989, ISBN 3-89264-293-1 , p. 25

personal data
SURNAME	Reyscher, August Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar, politician (DP), MdR and Philhellene
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Unterriexingen on the Enz
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1880
Place of death	Cannstatt

[1] Reyscher, Karl Ludwig. Retrieved November 17, 2015 .

[2] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 58-60.

[3] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 236.

[4] E. Sieb: Unterriexingen in old pictures. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1989, ISBN 3-89264-293-1 , p. 25