Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal
Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingen Thal ( born December 24, 1812 in Heidelberg, † June 3, 1894 in Großkmehlen ) is considered one of the most important German historian of law. His field was the Byzantine legal history.
Life
Zachariah was born in 1812 as the son of Heidelberg law professor Charles Solomon Zachariae. His family name was thus Zachariae. He received his peerage after his father was raised in 1842 as owner of the estate Lingental in the hereditary nobility. He attended the Prince's School St. Afra to Meissen and then studied from 1829-1834 in Leipzig, Heidelberg, Berlin and Heidelberg turn in philosophy, history, philology, mathematics, modern languages and law. Among his academic teachers were Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, his father Charles Solomon Zachariae, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaierstrasse, Friedrich Carl von Savigny and Friedrich August Biener (1787-1861); especially of Savigny and Biener influenced his scientific career. To his studentischem environment in Heidelberg were the 1848 revolutionary Friedrich Hecker and Albert Sprengel, who was later a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, and the Shakespeare researcher Karl Friedrich Gisbert von Vincke; be Jurakommilitone Theodor Hoffmeister (1812-1834) recorded in 1832, a portrait of youth Zachariae.
After the completion of the state exam, he traveled in 1834 to the study of Byzantine manuscripts to Paris and on to Brussels, London, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge. In 1836 he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg and undertook 1837-38 further scientific journey that led him to Athens, Thessaloniki, Mount Athos, Constantinople and Trebizond Opel. In 1841 he became a member of the Chamber College and in 1842 associate professor in Heidelberg. In 1845 he decided to abandon the university career, bought part of the manor Großkmehlen, where she taught an agricultural experimental station and lived there until his death in 1894.
In Großkmehlen he was also politically active in addition to his farming activities. In 1850 he was elected by his native county Liebenswerda in the Erfurt Parliament, where he joined the faction steel, later to become the Kreuzzeitung party joined and lively participated in the legislative work. After the dissolution of the Erfurt Parliament, he remained faithful to the same faction and was hers to continue as a member of the House of Representatives 1852-55 and again from 1866. The Cottbus- Großenhainer Railway owes its existence mainly to him. From 1869-76 he was the director and the Oberlausitzer Railway Company.
As a practical and theoretical farmer, he was one of the first to recognize the importance of chemistry to agriculture and implemented the theories of Liebig and the views of his friends Reuning and Weinlig into practice. By begun by him regulate the river and flood plain of the river Schwarze Elster, the cultivation of the Schradens, promotion of road construction and establishment of the Agricultural Experiment Station, which was then moved to the hall and connected to an agricultural college, he made a special contribution. Focus of its activities, however, always remained his legal studies.
Writings (selection )
- Fragmenta versionis Graecae legum Rotharis Longobardorum regis, Heidelberg 1835 ( online edition )
- Zacharia 's journey to the East Heidelberg 1840 online
Literature (selection )
- William Fischer: Zachariae von Lingen Thal, Charles Edward. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 653-657.