Stephan Christoph Harpprecht von Harpprechtstein

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Stephan Christoph Harpprecht von Harpprechtstein (born June 12, 1676 in Sindelfingen ; † January 11, 1735 in Vienna ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Stephan Christoph Harpprecht (from 1717: von Harpprechtstein) was born on June 12, 1676 in Sindelfingen; from 1682 he grew up in Lustnau (near Tübingen ), from where his father Johann Christoph Harpprecht administered the Bebenhausen church property as bailiff .

To study law, Harpprecht first moved to the University of Tübingen ; later he moved to the University of Halle , where he received his doctorate in law in 1697 .

In 1702 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Tübingen, from 1705 with salary. In 1709 he became a full professor at the Faculty of Law. In fact, he only taught there from 1711 to 1714.

From 1701 to 1708 Harpprecht worked as a Hohenzollern-Hechingischer Hofrat . In Stuttgart , he was in 1709 Government and Kammerprokurator but came with his fiscal policy between the mills of different interests and was in 1711 by Duke Eberhard Ludwig discharged and - referred to its Tubingen professor - despite reluctance of the university.

An investigation into his conduct of office ordered soon after Harpprecht's dismissal led to a complex process that lasted two decades. From 1713 it was conducted by the newly created General-Land-Visitation, first against Harpprecht's father regarding his administration as bailiff, then also against the son defending the father. High claims for damages were made and property confiscations were threatened, sometimes even carried out. Both Harpprechts felt they were wrongly persecuted and fled in March 1714 to Rottenburg , which was then in front of Austria , where their father, who had been worn down by the trial, died shortly afterwards.

From Rottenburg, Harpprecht conducted settlement negotiations and also sent a request for help to the Kaiser in Vienna with the involvement of the Reichshofrat . A little later, Harpprecht himself went into exile in Vienna, where he spent the next eight years.

While the proceedings continued with varying degrees of intensity (and were only ended by settlement in 1732), Harpprecht found recognition and new tasks in Vienna: in 1716 he became Liechtenstein court advisor and in 1717 Emperor Charles VI. raised to the hereditary nobility . In the same year he was appointed Princely Mansfeld Chancellor, in 1718 he was appointed Imperial Councilor. With the death of Prince Anton Florian in 1721, however, Harpprecht's commitment in Liechtenstein came to an end.

Harpprecht found new jobs, initially in the north as a princely judiciary for Holstein and from 1722 to 1728 as a professor at the University of Kiel . After a brief connection with the Sayn-Wittgenstein family , Harpprecht entered into an obligation as an Imperial Knighthood Councilor of the Lower Rhine in 1728 - in addition to other advisory activities. In 1730 he became the secret council of the (later) Saxon Duke Anton Ulrich . Most recently, he served as Liechtenstein privy councilor in Vienna, where he died on January 11, 1735.

family

He was married to Dorothea Widt (born February 28, 1680 in Landau (Palatinate) , † January 5, 1756 in Eßlingen ) since 1698 , daughter of the senior councilor Friedrich Jakob Widt. The marriage came from the lawyers Johann Andreas (1706–1771) and Johann Friedrich Harpprecht (1710–1761), he also had the daughters Catharina Dorothea (1703–1747), married to Lieutenant General Abel Friedrich von Tettau (1688–1761), and Johanna Elisabeth (1723–1781), married to Colonel Johann Friedrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1696–1757). His son Johann Andreas (born November 30, 1706; † August 7, 1771) was mayor of Eßlingen from 1760 to 1771.

Works

  • About the Post and Messenger Service in the Duchy of Würtemberg (1710)
  • Non usus modernus speculi suevici et praesertim juris feudalis Alemaniae in terris vicariatus suev.-franc-palat. (Kiel 1723)
  • Sacri Romani Imperii liberae et immediatae nobilitatis prae civitatibus imperialibus jus sessionis (Hamburg / Leipzig 1727)
  • De Sacri Romani Imperii liberae et immediatae nobilitatis jure status imperialis et superioritatis territorialis , authors: Stephan Christoph Harpprecht zu Harpprechtstein, Johannes Andreas Harpprecht, Kiel, Univ. Diss., 1727, Kilonii, Kiel 1727.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ or on June 16; see Eisenhart, p. 625, and Machheit, p. 214
  2. ↑ Machheit, p. 214; Eisenhart, p. 625, gives Lustnau as the place of birth
  3. ↑ von Eisenhart notes on the date of death that in Georgii Biographisch-Genealogischen Blätter , page 314, Meiningen is spoken of as the place of death , but this is not proven
  4. ↑ Machheit, p. 215; Eisenhart, p. 625, gives Tübingen as the place of the doctorate
  5. ↑ Machheit, p. 225 ff
  6. ↑ In Detail Machheit, pp. 225–237
  7. ↑ Macheit, p. 215

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personal data
SURNAME Harpprechtstein, Stephan Christoph Harpprecht from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1676
PLACE OF BIRTH Lustnau
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1735
Place of death Vienna