Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tafinger
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Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger , from 1812 by Tafinger , (born December 29, 1760 in Tübingen ; † June 17, 1813 there ) was a German legal scholar and university professor .
Life
Tafinger was the son of Tübingen law professor Friedrich Wilhelm Tafinger and came from the Tafinger family . After his father died early, he received his further education under the guidance of the legal scholar Karl Christoph Hofacker . He studied at the universities of Tübingen , Erlangen and Göttingen jurisprudence, went in 1780 to a more extensive educational journey through the German territories and finally returned to the Tubingen University, where he became Doctor of Laws PhD and finally in 1782 lecturer was appointed. As early as 1781 he worked for a year at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar .
Tafinger was appointed associate professor of law in 1786 . In 1788 he was given a full professorship at the University of Erlangen, before he received the chair for natural law and canon law in Tübingen in 1790 , where he also covered the teaching of police law. Later he was also assigned the areas of German private law and diplomacy. In 1812 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Württemberg Civil Merit Order and in 1813 appointed to the Higher Appellation Tribunal Council. In his time in Tübingen he had three times the Rector of the University held, he was in the years 1794, 1800 and 1807 Rector . He died after a long illness.
Tafinger was a member of the German Society of Göttingen and probably a member of the Illuminati Order . He tried to align law with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant .
Works (selection)
- About the purpose of the German police and cameral law , Cotta, Tübingen 1787.
- On the definition of the concept of the analogy of German private law and the principles of working on the same , Wohler, Ulm 1787.
- Encyclopedia and History of Rights in Germany , Palm, Erlangen 1789.
- Doctrines of Natural Law , Cotta, Tübingen 1794.
literature
- Necrology to Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tafinger . In: Morgenblatt für educated stands , 7th year (1813), Cotta, Tübingen 1813, p. 363.
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Tafinger, Friedrich Wilhelm (with comments on Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 351.
- Stefan Jens Jordan: Life and work of the Tübingen law professor Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger 1760–1813 , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3631508395 .
- Tafinger, Wilhelm Gottlieb , in: Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn (Hrsg.): The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers , Bloomsbury, London 2016, ISBN 9781474256001 , pp. 771 f.
Web links
- Works by and about Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tafinger in the German Digital Library
- Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger in the Illuminati project at the University of Erfurt
Individual evidence
- ^ Immanuel Carl Diez , Dieter Henrich : Briefwechsel und Kantische Schriften , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3608916598 , p. 410.
- ↑ Nekrolog zu Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tafinger . In: Heidelbergische Jahrbücher der Literatur , 6th year, 2nd part, Mohr and Zimmer, Heidelberg 1813, p. 57 f.
- ^ Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Tafinger, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 350 f.
- ↑ Königlich-Württembergisches Hof- und Staats-Handbuch , Stuttgart 1812, p. 182.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tafinger, Wilhelm Gottlieb from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tafinger, Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb von (full name); Tafinger, Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb; Tafinger, Wilhelm Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1813 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |