Julius Eduard Hitzig
Julius Eduard Hitzig, originally Isaac Elias Izzy ( born March 26, 1780 in Berlin, † November 26, 1849 ibid ) was a lawyer, publisher and writer.
Family
Hitzig came from a Brandenburg-Prussian Hofjudenfamilie. His paternal grandfather was Daniel Izzy and his parents Elias Daniel Izzy (January 23, 1755 in Berlin - January 11, 1818 in Potsdam ), owner of the English leather factory on the Tornow at Potsdam, City Council in Potsdam, and Marianne Leffmann (died November 17 1827), daughter of Abraham Leffmann heart. They had at least eight children. His sister Henriette Marianne Hitzig (1781-1845) married 1811 in Potsdam Nathan Mendelssohn ( 1781-1852, reformed since 1809 ), son of Moses Mendelssohn and the Fromet Gugenheim. His sister Caroline Hitzig (1784-1848) married the physicist Paul Erman. His daughter Eugenie was married to the geodesics Johann Jacob Baeyer; their son was the Nobel Prize for Chemistry Adolf von Baeyer.
Life
Eduard Izzy was in 1792 a founding member of the Society of Friends. He studied law at Halle and Erlangen. In 1799 he converted from Judaism to Christianity and changed his name. Hitzig, as he now called himself, completed a legal internship in Warsaw ( Auskultator ) and at the Superior Court in Berlin ( trainee ). Since 1804 Regierungsassessor in Warsaw, he was dismissed in 1807 from the Prussian judicial service because Napoleon had overthrown the government and French troops occupied Warsaw. Hitzig moved to Berlin, made a bookseller education and founded a publishing house, where he published, among others, the Berlin evening papers (1810 /11) of Heinrich von Kleist. In 1814 he returned to the Ministry of Justice at the Berlin Court of Appeal, he was appointed superintendent in 1815 and 1827 as Director of Inquisitoriats and a member in the Criminal Senate; In 1835 he went into retirement. With the foundation of criminal law journals (eg Journal of the Criminal -right care in the Prussian States, with the exclusion of the Rhine provinces, 1825 ff ) he promoted the technical discussion, but he was also involved in the literary life of his time - not only publishers but also as a member and co-founder of literary societies, including the 1824 New Mittwochsgesellschaft, as well as friendships with many writers of his time. He wrote biographical works about Zacharias Werner, Adelbert von Chamisso and E. T. A. Hoffmann. From 1842 he was together with Willibald Alexis editor of the New Pitaval, in the sixty volumes until 1890 in about 600 criminal cases have been published.
He was married to Johanna Baruch since 1804 (also bark stone), divorced Meyer ( 1782-1814 ) from Opava, daughter of originating from Königswart in Bohemia Tobacco District publisher Hirschl ( Naphtali ) Baruch and Barbara Götzl from Vienna. The designed as a mausoleum family grave is located on the Dorotheenstädtischer Cemetery in Berlin -Mitte, Chausseestraße in the Dept. CM, G4. Also his son Friedrich Hitzig is buried.
Works
(Selection)
- Life - demolition Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner. Berlin 1823.
- From Hoffmann's life and estate. 2 Tle Berlin 1823.
- The Royal. Prussian law of 11 June 1837 Protection of property in works of science and art to reprint and reproduction. Berlin 1838 (reprinted in UFITA Vol 107, 163-226 ).
- About fiction writing as a life profession. A word of warning for young and old. Berlin 1838.
- Life and Letters of Adelbert von Chamisso. Leipzig 1839.
- Instructions on the preparation of a relation from criminal records. To the best of Justizoffizianten Dowager checkout. Berlin 1843.