Johann Georg Estor
Johann Georg estor ( born June 6 1699 Pig Mountain, † October 25, 1773 in Marburg ) was a lawyer, a genealogist and a pioneer of modern heraldry.
Life
After estor had enjoyed private tuition, he went in 1715 after casting, where he initially continued his speech and general studies and then zuwendete of jurisprudence. In 1719 he retired after a short stay in Jena to Halle, where he initially comes in the house of the then Chancellor Johann Peter von Ludewig, before he Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling recording was made, who treated him like a son and him only free maintenance, access to pastimes and higher societies allowed. After his studies in Halle he hired himself for a short time among other things as a tutor before he completed a clerkship at the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar and 1725 at the University of Giessen for Lic. doctorate. 1726 estor was transferred an extraordinary law professor and also the title of Hesse- darmstädt'schen Council and historiographer, 1727 was followed by the Annual Proffesur at the law school. On August 14, 1728, he finally accepted the legal doctoral degrees.
1734 and 1735, he received calls of the University of Helmstedt, which he rejects. The offer of the University of Jena as professor of the Pandects at the Law School and at the High Court in the Assessor Aldermen chair, Connected with the title of Privy Councillor he supposed. Jena was by Johann Stephan Putter " the true epoch of his fame ." Always heard hundreds audience its events. In 1737 he was unanimously elected Vice-Rector of the University. The reputation in 1739 at the University of Frankfurt on the Oder he struck out, which he took in 1742 following call to the second Chair of the rights, Connected with the title of the Government Council in his home, at the University of Marburg. All following calls to Halle, Erlangen and Giessen ( 1743), to Göttingen and Tübingen (1744), again to Giessen ( 1746 ), again according to Hall ( 1749), Wittenberg (1752 ), as well as to Utrecht and Leyden, he rejected. In Marburg, however, he could move up in 1748 for the first Professor of Law and was Vice- Chancellor of the University. 1754 estor is the secret Government and finally in 1768 the Chancellor of the University and to the Privy Council.
Writings
- Sample improved Heraldry, Giessen, 1728
- Practical guide to noble ancestry, Marburg, 1750
- Civil law scholarship of the Germans, Volume 1, Marburg, 1757 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )