Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut

Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut ( born January 4, 1772 in Hameln, † March 28, 1840 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar. Thibaut's brother, Friedrich Bernhard Thibaut, was professor of mathematics in Göttingen.

Life

After studying at the Georg -August- University Göttingen, Christian-Albrechts -University of Kiel and the Albertus University of Königsberg in 1796 Thibaut was first lecturer, associate 1798, 1801 finally full professor of Roman law in Kiel. After subsequent, brief spell at the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut in 1805 was appointed professor of Roman law at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg.

Chief object of his scientific activity was the Pandektenwissenschaft which he sought to further develop of the Roman laws to a scientific legal system. In the scientific dispute over the question of whether to recommend it to the civil law in Germany to codify, so to summarize in a law book and regulate - the Kodifikationsstreit so-called - he stood with his favorable view contrary to the view Friedrich Carl von Savigny, capable of considered his time as not to create such a code and instead of an organic progression of the law argued ( in "From the occupation of our time for Legislation and jurisprudence ", 1814). Thibaut was Baden Privy Council of State and honorary citizen of Heidelberg. From 1805 to 1807 and again in 1821 he was rector of the University of Heidelberg. In 1819 he became a member of the First Chamber of the Baden States General as representative of the University of Heidelberg.

In his 1824 published work " About purity of music " he turned against alleged abuses in church music and demanded a return to " classical" composers such as Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Orlando di Lasso. This work was widely with great approval and can be considered as a root of the Cecilianism.

On March 28, 1840 Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut died in Heidelberg, and on April 1, his solemn funeral was at St. Anna Cemetery in Heidelberg committed with an academic ceremony.

After the St. Anna Cemetery had to be abandoned for reasons of hygiene, the bones were reburied Thibaut on the Heidelberg Mountain Cemetery. Since 1875, Thibaut's tomb is there, in the Division D, the so-called Professor series. The tomb is decorated with a tracery decorated cross, which is built on a pedestal inscriptions.

Works

• System of Pandektenrechts, 1803
• About the need for a general civil law in Germany, 1814 ( digitized at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History )
• About purity of Music, 1824