Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich Arnold
Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich Arnold (born October 28, 1826 in Borken ; † July 2, 1883 in Marburg ) was a lawyer , legal , economic and cultural historian and politician .
Life
He studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg , the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg and in Berlin . Wilhelm Arnold dealt intensively with legal history. He was significantly influenced by the historian Leopold von Ranke . In 1850 he completed his habilitation in law in Marburg. He then published numerous treatises and studies on constitutional history. In 1855 Wilhelm Arnold was appointed full professor of German legal history in Basel . From 1863 until his sudden death in 1883 he taught natural law , constitutional law and economics at the Philipps University in Marburg. He also dealt with cultural-historical topics and published Kultur und Rechtsleben in 1865 .
He then continued his research with settlement history and onomastic continuing investigations. He founded the local name theory and thus formed the basis for subsequent research in this field of science.
Arnold was also politically active: from 1881 he sat as a member of the Conservatives in the German Reichstag .
Works
- Settlements and migrations of German tribes: mostly based on Hessian place names. Elwert, Marburg 1875 ( digitized version ); Reprint: Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-412-07483-7 .
- Culture and legal life. Dümmler, Berlin 1865, OCLC 802615422 .
literature
- Siegfried Rietschel: Arnold, Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 52-54.
- Hermann Nolte: Arnold, Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 388 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich Arnold in the German Digital Library
- Arnold, Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Wilhelm Arnold . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5663, p. 177 ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnold, Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, legal, economic and cultural historian, politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bark |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1883 |
| Place of death | Marburg |