Wilhelm von Pufendorf

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Wilhelm Carl Ludwig von Pufendorf (born July 30, 1790 in Celle ; † April 4, 1838 ibid) was a German lawyer and judge at the highest court of the Kingdom of Hanover .

Life

Wilhelm von Pufendorf came from the famous family of lawyers Pufendorf , to the already the natural law philosopher Samuel von Pufendorf counted (1632-1694). His grandfather was the lawyer Friedrich Esaias Pufendorf . Wilhelm von Pufendorf was born on June 30, 1790 in Celle as the son of Ludolf Friedrich Johann von Pufendorf and Gustava. Cruse born. Like himself, his father was a royal Hanoverian judge at the Higher Appeal Court in Celle. In 1820 he married Jeanette born in Göttingen. Pauer, widowed Langreuter.

Pufendorf studied law at the University of Göttingen until September 1809 , where he was one of the founding members of the Corps Hannovera . Before that he belonged to a secretly existing country team association of students from the Kingdom of Hanover. Like most of his corps brothers, he left the city after the so-called gendarme affair .

In 1828 Pufendorf was appointed judge at the Higher Appeal Court of the Kingdom of Hanover in Celle. The court was the highest court in the Kingdom of Hanover until 1866. He received the judge's post with the death of his father, who in turn had exercised this office before him. At that time, the custom laid down in an ordinance in 1819 that father and son were not allowed to work at the Court of Appeal at the same time applied. Therefore, only after his father's death did he take his place. He held this for 9 years until his death in 1838. He was already the fourth generation of the Pufendorfs to work on the same dish. His grandfather, the lawyer Friedrich Esaias Pufendorf and his great-grandfather Esaias Pufendorf were also judges at the Royal Hanover Higher Appeal Court. In 1841 he published a comprehensive work on civil law and the applicable procedural law at the time. Like his predecessor Friedrich Esaias, he also published regular articles and contributions on legal dogmatics under civil law, his so-called Observationes, from 1830 onwards . These appeared in the legal newspaper for Hanover , among others . They represent a collection of decisions of the Higher Appeal Court and other courts, some of which he himself participated in. In their time they were a source of knowledge for the law applicable in Hanover.

Publications

  • Wilhelm v. Pufendorf: Wilhelm von Pufendorf's observations on subjects of civil and procedural law - from his lectures held in the royal high appeal court in Celle. Publishing house by GHC Schulze, Celle 1841 ( digitized version )
  • Observations. several articles in: Juristic newspaper for Hanover from 1830 ( list of publications )

literature

  • Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera (1809-1899). Göttingen 2002, No. 22
  • Festschrift for the 275th anniversary of the Higher Regional Court of Celle . Celle, Schweiger & Pick, 1986.
  • German Biographical Archive (DBA) 986, pp. 106-107
  • German Biographical Index (DBI) 3, 1603a
  • International Biographical Index (IBI) of the Humanities: Scholars, Philosophers, Historians, Philologists, Art and Musicologists, Volume 2, 887a

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation in Göttingen May 8, 1808
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 72
  3. ^ Historical personalities of the judges of the Higher Regional Court of Celle on the pages of the Higher Regional Court of Celle
personal data
SURNAME Pufendorf, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pufendorf, Wilhelm Carl Ludwig von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and judge at the highest court of the Kingdom of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1838
Place of death Celle