Richard Wilhelm Dove

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Richard Wilhelm Dove (born February 27, 1833 in Berlin , † September 18, 1907 in Göttingen ) was a German teacher of canon law , eldest son Heinrich Wilhelm Doves , brother Alfred Doves , father Karl Doves .

Life

Dove studied in Berlin, Bonn and Heidelberg Law , 1854 a member of the fraternity Alemannia Bonn and later a member of the fraternity Brunsviga in Goettingen, received his doctorate in 1855 with the dissertation De jurisdictionis ecclesiasticae apud Germanos Gallosque progressu (Berlin 1855), then worked as Auskultator and 1857 until 1860 as a trainee lawyer at the Court of Appeal and completed his habilitation in 1859 as a private lecturer in Berlin with the treatise: Investigations on the sending courts , which was later expanded in the Zeitschrift für Kirchenrecht (Volumes 4 and 5); In addition, he was since January 1860 as an "auxiliary worker" (In Prussia and the German Reich , "auxiliary worker" was the official designation for a trial for a higher post or administrative officer in the higher service used to support a scheduled speaker or department head .) in the Berlin Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Evangelicals Regional church active in Prussia .

At Easter 1862 he became associate professor, 1863 full professor in Tübingen, 1865 in Kiel, 1868 in Göttingen. On December 14, 1870, as Vice Rector of Georgia Augusta , he rejected British desire for interference in the Franco-German War (cf. his writing: Some memorial sheets from the history of Georgia Augusta, Göttingen 1887). In March 1871, the constituency of Düsseldorf 6th district ( Duisburg ) elected him to the first German Reichstag , where he joined the faction of the National Liberal Party . In 1873 Dove was appointed a member of the newly established royal court for ecclesiastical matters, and in 1875 he was appointed to the manor house at the presentation of the University of Göttingen .

Literary works

Dove's literary works have largely appeared in print in the Journal of Canon Law , which he founded in conjunction with others in 1860 , an organ for Protestant canon law and for the treatment of Catholic canon law from a non- ultramontane point of view, in which he describes the rights of the state vis-à-vis the Strongly represented the church. His work on Ämilius Ludwig Richter and his time (Volume 7), which presents the canonical movements of modern times in broad outline, deserves special attention . He also got the new edits of Richter's textbook of canon law (8th edition, Leipzig 1877-1886). He also wrote a collection of the more important new church ordinances, church constitution laws, etc. of Protestant Germany (Tübingen 1865).

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  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 218.
  2. ^ 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. 167; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 104; see. also: Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach . 9th edition of May 9, 1871. Verlag Franz Duncker, Berlin 1871, p. 176.