Richard Eduard John

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Richard Eduard John (born July 17, 1827 in Marienwerder, West Pr. , † August 7, 1889 in Göttingen ) was a criminalist and lawyer.

Life

Richard Eduard John attended Marienwerder High School . He studied in Leipzig, Berlin and at the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1852. jur. PhD. After completing his habilitation as a private lecturer at the University of Königsberg in 1853 , he became an associate professor there in 1856 and a full professor of law in 1859. From 1862 to the summer of 1867 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , here he belonged to the German Progressive Party and, after the establishment of the National Liberal faction, to the latter. In 1868 he went to the University of Kiel as a full professor , to Göttingen in 1869, but to Lübeck in 1870 as a councilor for the Higher Appeal Court , and in 1876 again as a professor of criminal law in Göttingen.

Works

His writings, which are among the most outstanding criminal works, are:

  • The criminal law in Northern Germany at the time of the law books (Leipzig 1858, Vol. 1), Google Books ;
  • The Doctrine of Continued Crime and Criminal Competition (Berlin 1860);
  • About the Nemede of the Old Dithmarian legal sources (Königsberg 1860);
  • Criticism of the Prussian draft law on the responsibility of ministers (1st and 2nd ed., Leipzig 1863);
  • About penal institutions (Berlin 1865);
  • Criticisms of criminal decisions by the Prussian Upper Tribunal (1866);
  • On the Death Penalty (1867);
  • Draft with motifs for a penal code for the North German Confederation (1868), Google Books ;
  • The criminal law in northern Germany, judgment on the draft of a penal code for the North German Confederation (Göttingen 1870);
  • On jury courts and jury courts (Berlin 1872).

In addition to numerous treatises in specialist journals, he also provided in Franz von Holtzendorff's Encyclopedia of Jurisprudence the description of civil and criminal proceedings for the first edition, of criminal proceedings for the second edition, and edited in v. Holtzendorff's Handbook of Criminal Law Crimes Against the State. In Bezold's legislation of the German Reich , he explained the code of criminal procedure for the German Reich (Erlangen 1881–84).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Teichmann:  John, Richard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 688-690.
  2. ^ Hans Dühring : The Marienwerder high school. From cathedral school to high school . East German contributions from the Göttingen working group, Vol. XXX. Hölzner Verlag, Würzburg 1964, p. 104.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: On compulsory land and illegal threats in Göttingen 1852

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personal data
SURNAME John, Richard Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1889
Place of death Goettingen