Wilhelm Franz Francke

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Wilhelm Franz Gottfried Francke (born July 26, 1803 in Lüneburg , † April 12, 1873 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Wilhelm Franz Gottfried Franke came from a family whose members were mostly pastors in the Principality of Lüneburg . His father was an accountant at the Saline in Lüneburg and Wilhelm Franz was born the second of seven children. After attending grammar schools in Lüneburg and Braunschweig from 1816 , he moved to the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig in 1820. In 1821 he began to study law at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in law on August 4, 1824. At Easter 1825 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer, on July 1, 1828 he became an associate professor of law and an associate member of the Spruchkollegium.

At Easter 1831 he accepted a call as a full professor at the University of Jena and, connected with it, was appointed appellate judge . In the winter semester of 1836 he participated as rector of the alma mater in the organizational tasks of the educational institution and in March 1837 became a knight of the Saxon Ernestine House Order . Despite a few other offers, he moved back to Göttingen in 1844 as the successor to Christian Friedrich Mühlenbruch and, connected with it, became court counselor. He was co-editor of the Archives for Civilist Practice and died of complications from pneumonia associated with cancer of the tongue.

His wife Luise geb. Crome (born November 7, 1810), daughter of the Markoldendorf superintendent Friedrich Gottlieb Crome , lost Francke in 1863. Six of his ten children survived him. One daughter was married to Paul Wagner , the world-famous director of the "Agricultural Research Station Darmstadt". Else Wagner emerged from their marriage , who later became the wife of Emil Fuchs .

The Francke family is also the old Hanoverian parish family from which August Hermann Francke , the founder of the Halle orphanage, today's Francke Foundations, came from .

Works (selection)

  • Comm. de pignore pro naturali debito obligato. Goettingen 1824
  • Civilistic Treatises (Göttingen 1826);
  • Contributions to the explanation of individual legal matters Göttingen 1828, Section 1
  • The right of emergency heirs and those entitled to compulsory portion Göttingen 1831
  • Progr. Observationum de jure legatorum et fideicommisorum spec. I. Jena 1832
  • Progr. De manumissorum sucessione. I-III. Jena 1834
  • Disp. de cautionibus in confessoria et negatoria actione olim praestandis. Jena 1837
  • Probabilium de uno casu in §. 2. I. de actionibus commemorato Part. I. Jena 1839
  • Exegetical-dogmatic commentary on the Pandekt title de hereditatis petitione (Göttingen 1864).

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SURNAME Francke, Wilhelm Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Francke, Wilhelm Franz Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1873
Place of death Goettingen