Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg

Carl Ludwig Arndt, Knights of Arne Berg ( knighted since 1870/71, born August 19, 1803 in Arnsberg, † March 1, 1878 in Vienna) was a lawyer, professor, and politician ( member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Austrian mansion ).

Biography

Family and Education

Arndt was born in 1803 as the ninth of ten children in an educated middle class family with a long legal tradition, which was based in Arnsberg, the capital of the Duchy of Westphalia since the beginning of the 18th century. In addition to his position as the Electoral Councilor was the grandfather Johann Wilhelm Arndt (1710-1771) postmaster of Thurn and Taxis postal service and the founder of the first newspaper Arnsberg (1766). The father Friedrich Arndt was in the time when the Duchy of Hesse- Darmstadt was the director of the manorial court (later the Higher Regional Court or District Court ) and member of the legislative Commission in the capital city of Darmstadt. His schooling was Arndt until graduation in 1820 at the high school Laurentianum in his hometown.

Arndt studied at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin especially Jura and heard among others, Justin von Linde and Karl Theodor Welcker. In Bonn, Arndt involved in 1820 with other students from Westphalia despite the " Demagogenverfolgung " actively participated in a fraternity Germania. After his move to Heidelberg he heard among others, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, who supplied at that time a scientific dispute with Friedrich Carl von Savigny. This was apparently the trigger for a change at the reform Universität Berlin, taught at the Savigny. Already, Welcker suggested Arndt 1822 before on a visit to Arnsberg to become a lecturer. Ever since his time in Berlin was the profession of university teacher aim of Arndt. Immediately after his military service in the Guards Rifle in Berlin put Arndt 1825 his doctoral thesis in Berlin in 1826 and his habilitation in Bonn. In 1830, Arndt married his cousin Bertha Arndt and took with her a trip to Rome in 1834-35. After her death in 1859, he was with the writer Maria Arndt born Vespermann married.

Scientific and political activity

Only after a long wait he received in 1836 as an associate professor of Roman Law in Bonn. However, the reason for this delay is not in his scientific work ( Arndt already published in this period, a series of important writings ) still to be found in the quality as a teacher. It was probably his " liberal " attitude that disabled his university career.

In 1838 he was appointed full professor in Breslau and almost simultaneously in Munich. He opted for the Munich position as professor of civil law. In addition to his lectures Arndt published numerous articles and was author of a textbook.

In 1843 he published his legal encyclopedia and methodology, which he dedicated to his Sauerland compatriot Johann Suibert Seibertz. As a member of the Bavarian legislation Commission, he was involved in the draft of a Civil Code and Civil Procedure.

Before the designs could be of practical importance, in 1847 the Commission was dissolved. However, they resorted in 1857 with the design for a Civil Code for Bayern in the core on Arndt's ' preliminary work back and this also played for the design of the German Civil Code still a considerable role.

Along with Johann Caspar Bluntschli, he gave out since 1853 the Critical overlook the German legislation and jurisprudence.

Both his liberal attitude as well as his legal skills predestined Arndt in the spring of 1848 as a candidate for the National Assembly in Frankfurt. He acted as a member of the large German group the constituency Straubing from 20 May 1848 to 19 May 1849 in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church, where he belonged to the Casino Group and the Paris court. His interest in Parliament, especially legal issues. During the negotiations, he joined the ultramontane Catholic club.

After his retirement from the Parliament on May 19, 1849 Arndt sat his teaching continued. In the early 1850s he published his textbook on Pandects, the learned among 16 new editions over time. During this time, Arndt was also Rector of the University of Munich and a member of the forced lots society Munich, before he received a call in 1855 to Vienna. Although King Max II is personally began to keep Arndt in Munich, this went to Austria. In Vienna he was for 18 years professor. Was he still in the pre-March period in the liberal camp, he represented especially since his appointment to a lifelong member of the House (1867 ) about the marriage and education legislation ever more Catholic and conservative views. However, he was concerned about the reform of legal education in Austria deserves. To thank him Emperor Franz Joseph in 1870 raised to the peerage and made ​​him a Knight of Arne Berg. In 1872 he became a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and appointed a Privy Councillor. After his retirement in 1874 he retired to his estates at the Ammersee and died in 1878 in Vienna.

Writings

• Textbook of Pandects. Munich, 1852 (reprint Goldbach, 1997)
• Legal encyclopedia and methodology. 11th Edition after the author's death / worried by Bernhard Erwin Grueber. Stuttgart, 1908.
• Collected civilistische writings. Stuttgart, 1873. (Reprinted Goldbach, 1999)
• The doctrine of the legacies (Erlangen, B. 1-3, 1869-78 )
• Collected civilistische writings (3 volumes, Stuttgart, 1873-74 ).
• Co-author of Critical About Acting German legislation and jurisprudence ( 6 volumes, Munich, 1853-58 ).