Wilhelm Gotthelf Engelhard

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Wilhelm Gotthelf Engelhard, ca.1835

Wilhelm Gotthelf Engelhard (born July 26, 1785 in Kassel ; † April 30, 1848 there ) was a German lawyer.

origin

Engelhard was the third of ten children and the oldest of five sons of Johann Philipp Engelhard , later director of the Kassel War College, who came from a Hesse-Cassel family of court officials, and Magdalene Philippine Gatterer , daughter of the polymath Johann Christoph Gatterer .

Engelhard's older sister, Karoline (1781–1855), was a writer and became known as the author of “Julien's Letters” and the “Colorful Series”. The younger sister Luise Wilhelmine (1787–1875) married the Magdeburg businessman and industrialist Johann Gottlob Nathusius in 1809 .

Life

Engelhard attended a school in Kassel. Even as a 5-year-old he was on 27 June 1790 in Göttingen as prorectoris ex filia nepos he was at the beginning of the course with free enrolled, and on October 17, 1801 renovavit jurassic civitatis, olim jam prorectore avo, Beati Gatterer, inscriptus again in mentioned in the register. Then in 1804 he studied at the University in Marburg .

After completing his studies, he was initially a government procurator in Kassel, then an attorney at the Royal Westphalian State Council, which had existed since 1808. From 1821 he was a higher court attorney, and shortly thereafter he was appointed to the higher court council. In 1817 the business of a ministerial councilor, in the field of justice, with the character of a secret justice council, was transferred to him .

In 1826 he was provisional and from 1829 real Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Justice. From January 1830, Engelhard was a senior appellate judge and, most recently, director of the higher court in Kassel.

On the occasion of the third secular celebration at the University of Marburg, he was awarded the doctorate on July 29, 1827. Engelhard was a school and college friend of the Brothers Grimm .

family

Engelhard's first wife was Karoline Heym (1795-1821) on December 2, 1810 in Kassel. In his second marriage, after the death of his first wife on June 1, 1822, he married Louise Waitz (1801–1848), a daughter of August Christian Waitz, Hofrat zu Kassel, spa doctor and personal doctor of Landgrave Wilhelm IX (Elector Wilhelm I) and his Mrs. Marianne, b. Harnier.

From the first marriage came three daughters, including Johanne Marianne Auguste Engelhard, who later became the first wife of August Engelhard von Nathusius . In the second marriage, Engelhard had nine more children: six daughters and three sons. The daughter Anna Engelhard married Adolf Friedrich Stölzel , university professor and member of the Prussian manor house in 1860 .

plant

  • Together with Wilhelm Wöhler: Attempt to present the Westphalian civil process in formulas, along with the divorce procedure. 1st part, Hanover 1809.
  • Draft improved civil litigation legislation. Two volumes, the first of which contains the proposed code and the second of which contains the reasons for it . Krieger, Rudolstadt 1817.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Ollrog (adaptation): Johann Christoph Gatterer, the founder of scientific genealogy. An examination of the previously known sources and publications about his origins, his life and work as well as his descendants . On behalf of the Genealogical-Heraldic Society based in Göttingen, Archive for Family Research and All Related Areas with Practical Research Aid, Volume 47, Issue 81/82, February 1981, CA Starke Verlag (Ed.), Limburg / Lahn 1981, p 41.
  2. ↑ Correspondence between Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from their youth. H. Böhlaus successor, 1963, p. 482.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Brand: Investigations into the emergence of labor jurisdiction in Germany. Volume 2, p. 225.
  4. ^ Karl Wilhelm Justi: Basis for a Hessian Scholar, Writer and Artist History 1831.
  5. ↑ Krafft Schenck zu Schweinsberg: In the service of lackluster crowns. From the life of the State Minister of Hesse, Ferdinand Schenck zu Schweinsberg (1765-1842). NG Elwert, 2001, p. 100.
  6. ↑ Stefan Brakensiek: Prince servants, state officials, citizens: administration and living environment of local officials in small towns in Lower Hesse 1750-1830. ISBN 3-525-35677-3 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, p. 214.
  7. ↑ Reinhard König: Kurhessisches Justice Ministry (1711) 1821-1867. Volume 250 from the series for landscape management and nature conservation. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg 1987, ISBN 3-88964-130-X , p. 39.
  8. ^ Journal for German Philology . Volume 36, Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1904, p. 226.

literature

  • Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen:  Engelhard, Wilhelm Gotthelf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 138.
  • Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland. Or lexicon of German writers living now. Starting with Georg Christoph Hamberger. Continued by Johann Georg Meusel. 5th edition. Meyer, Lemgo 1796-1834.
  • Karl Wilhelm Justi : Basis for a Hessian scholar, writer and artist story from 1806-1830, continuation of Strieder's Hessian scholar and writer story and addenda to this work. Chr. Garthe, Marburg 1831.
  • Johann Heinrich Stepf : Gallery of all juridical authors from the oldest to the present time. Leipzig 1820-1825.

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personal data
SURNAME Engelhard, Wilhelm Gotthelf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1848
Place of death kassel