Woldemar Friedrich Karl von Ditmar

Coat of arms of the noble family von Ditmar

Woldemar Friedrich Karl von Ditmar (born August 6, 1794 in Pernau , Estonia , † November 12, 1826 in Fennern ) was a Baltic baron , lawyer and writer .

Career

Woldemar Friedrich Karl was educated at home. From 1812 to 1815 he studied philosophy and law at the Imperial University of Dorpat . He continued his philosophical studies in 1815 at the University of Königsberg . In Berlin and Heidelberg he completed his law degree and a doctorate in 1817 in Heidelberg for a doctor of law . In 1818 he completed his habilitation at the Imperial University of Dorpat and was then a private lecturer in Livonian and Roman law and criminal law until 1819 . His lectures included “Livonian private law”, according to his own plan and “Teaching law” - “as a preparatory college for the more thorough studio of Livonian law”, according to GL Böhmeri. He finished his academic work at the end of 1819 and became an assessor at the Pernausch District Court in Fellin . He was also active as a writer.

Origin and family

Woldemar Friedrich Karl came from the Livonian-Estonian line of the noble family of Ditmar . His father was Woldemar Adolph von Ditmar (1770-1837), who was married to Karoline Johanna von Krüdener , his mother (1768-1852) and Anna Margarethe (Martha) von Haffstein (1748-1802) in his second marriage was, his nephew was the lawyer Christoph Friedrich Conrad von Ditmar (1843-1894). Woldemar Friedrich married Charlotte Juliane von Stackelberg (1804–1880) in 1821 . Their only child was Karl Woldemar Bernhard Ferdinand von Ditmar (1822-1892), he had no offspring.

literature

Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 . Volume 1, p. 360.

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Woldemar Friedrich Karl von Ditmar. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Short biography: von Ditmar, Woldemar Karl Friedrich. In: Eighth book: From peace in 1815 to the French revolution in 1830: poetry of general education. Department VIII, Volume 15, Outline of the History of German Poetry from the Sources , edited by Karl Goedeke , Herbert Jacob, Edition 2, Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2011, ISBN 3050052600 , page 108, no. 34.
WCarl Ditmar (Woldemar Friedrich Carl von Ditmar) in http://kronoki.org (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Dorpat educational institutions. Directory of the lecture to be held on January 20, 1819 at the Imperial University of Dorpat. II. Faculty of Law. In: Jenaische Allgemeine literatur-Zeitung: Intellektivenblatt ..., Volume 1, Published 1819, Original by University of Chicago , digitized October 24, 2013 [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Ditmar, Woldemar Friedrich Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic baron and lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pernau , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1826
Place of death	Fennern , Estonia

[1] Dorpat educational institutions. Directory of the lecture to be held on January 20, 1819 at the Imperial University of Dorpat. II. Faculty of Law. In: Jenaische Allgemeine literatur-Zeitung: Intellektivenblatt ..., Volume 1, Published 1819, Original by University of Chicago , digitized October 24, 2013 [1]