Vincenz August Wagner

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Vincenz August Wagner (born March 7, 1790 in Thannhausen , † October 14, 1833 in Guttenbrunn ( incorporated into Baden in 1850 )) was an Austrian lawyer.

Life

Vincenz August Wagner was born as the son of the first senior official on the reigns of Joseph Adam von Arco , Prince-Bishop of Seckau .

He spent his first years at Seggau Castle and received lessons from his father until he was twelve , including drawing and music. In 1802 he came to Graz at the Imperial Academic High School , with which the Lyceum , formerly the University of Graz , was connected, where he did philosophical and legal studies and listened to the lectures of Professor Sebastian Jenull .

At the age of nineteen he went to the University of Vienna in 1809 to obtain a doctorate in law. In 1810 he graduated from the first final exam and was in August 1811 a doctorate in law doctorate . He successfully applied for the chair of feudal , commercial and bill of exchange law and judicial proceedings at the Olomouc Lyceum . After just six months, he was also appointed to represent the professorship for the General Civil Code.

In order to familiarize himself with the judicial practice, he visited from November 1812 to 1814 the office of the then professor and Moravian-Silesian state advocate and later appellate counselor, Dr. Ignaz Beidtel (1783-1865); then he applied for a state lawyer position in Moravia and Silesia, which he received in 1815.

In 1817, at the age of twenty-seven, the directors and professors of the Olomouc Lyceum elected him their rector .

In 1819 he was appointed to the chair of feudal, commercial and bill of exchange law and judicial proceedings at the University of Vienna. He also participated as an employee in the editing and implementation of the plan for the establishment of the Vienna general widows and orphans institute.

In 1822 he was given the post of censor in the political and legal field by the highest police and censorship office ; In 1823 he was appointed a member of the court commission in judicial law matters.

In 1825 he founded the magazine for Austrian legal scholarship , which served as a specialist body to promote the training of legal scholarship and political law studies, as well as scientific practice, to convey the consistency of theoretical and practical views of the various legislations and to facilitate study. After his death, the magazine was published by Thomas Dolliner , Josef von Kudler , Moriz Fränzel, Moritz von Stubenrauch (1811–1865) and Eduard von Tomaschek (1810–1890) until 1849.

In 1826 the consistory of the University of Vienna chose him as their syndic . In the same year the draft of a change regulation was discussed and Vincenz August Wagner was appointed co-speaker; In 1827 he was given the management of the drafting of the printing of the change regulations in the state printing office .

In 1828 Emperor Franz I ordered that, in order to accelerate the process, the drafting of a commercial code should be consulted by the court commission on legal matters; Vincenz August Wagner joined the special commission for editing the Commercial Code as a member and co-speaker.

Vincenz August Wanger was friends with the Styrian poet Johann Nepomuk Georg Fellinger (1781–1816), with whom he read German classics, including Immanuel Kant . He also played the piano and composed a few pieces and associated with the composers Anton Halm and Eduard von Lannoy .

He had been with Luise, a daughter of the adjunct Hahn , since September 10, 1815 . Together they had two sons and four daughters.

He was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof .

Honors

In 1829 he received the rank and title of a councilor.

Fonts (selection)

He worked as a reviewer for the Wiener Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung as well as the Chronicle of Literature in the Vaterländische Blätter and the Vienna Literature Yearbooks .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BLKÖ: Wagner, Vincenz August - Wikisource. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .