Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier
Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaierstrasse (* August 5, 1787 in Munich, † August 28 1867 in Heidelberg, often abbreviated as CJA Mittermaierstrasse ) was a German lawyer, university professor, journalist and politician. He is one of the most important legal scholars of Criminal Law of the 19th century.
Family
Mittermaierstrasse was born the son of a pharmacist and owner of "Rose Pharmacy " Joseph Georg Jakob Mittermaierstrasse (1750-1797) on August 5, 1787 in Munich. The mother was a sister of the navigator Heinrich Zimmermann, a helmsman of the Captain James Cook sailed around the globe. Mittermaierstrasse was married, with whom he had six children with Margaret, née Walther (* 1786). He was the maternal grandfather of Richard von Krafft -Ebing.
Career
Mittermaierstrasse studied law at the University of Landshut, where he co-founded the Corps Bavaria, and then received his PhD from the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg.
After working as a private teacher and lecturer, he became in 1811 professor of law at Landshut and Bavarian Councilor. In 1819 he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1821 in Heidelberg. He made several study trips and served as editor of several legal and political writings, among others, along with Karl Mathy and Friedrich Daniel Bassermann as co-founder of the German newspaper and author of Rotteck Welcker Staatslexikon.
He was from the beginning one of the central figures of the moderate southwest German liberalism. He was in 1829 a member of the Baden legislation Commission and from 1831 to 1840 and from 1846 to 1849 deputy in the Second Chamber of the States General Baden, from 1833 to 1840 as its president. He was a participant of the Weinheimer Press Festival in 1832 and the Heidelberg Assembly in 1848.
Mittermaierstrasse was president of the Pre-Parliament in Frankfurt am Main and represented on May 18, 1848, to May 30, 1849 Baden- Baden in the Frankfurt National Assembly. He was a member of the fractions Württemberg court and Augsburger Hof and participated as a delegate in the election of Frederick William IV, Emperor of the Germans.
Mittermeier has received numerous honorary doctorates and was a member of many scientific societies in Europe and the United States. On 31 May 1863 he was awarded the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts. The City of Heidelberg gave Carl Mittermaierstrasse 1836, the honorary citizenship.
The 1822 Mittermaierstrasse in Heidelberg acquired and named after him building, the Palais Mittermaierstrasse, today Karl Straße 8, at that time also the residence of the parents of Richard von Krafft -Ebing, is one of the oldest preserved baroque buildings in the old town of Heidelberg.
Swell
- Erich J. Hahn ( ed.): correspondence Karl Josef Anton Mittermaierstrasse - Rudolf von Gneist. ( = Study of European Legal History, 132 ) Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-465-03076-1.
- Lieselotte Jelowik (ed.): correspondence Karl Josef Anton Mittermaierstrasse - Hermann fitting. ( = Study of European Legal History, 133 ) Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-465-03078-8.
- Lieselotte Jelowik (ed.): Letters of German and Swiss German scholars Karl Josef Anton Mittermaierstrasse. ( = Study of European Legal History, 143 ) Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-465-03152-0.
- Dorothee Mussgnug (ed.): Letters from members of the Baden legislative commissions to Karl Josef Anton Mittermaierstrasse. ( = Study of European Legal History, 153 ) Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-465-03204-7.
- Lieselotte Jelowik (ed.): Letters German criminal law to Karl Josef Anton Mittermaierstrasse 1832-1866. ( = Study of European Legal History, 188 ) Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-465-03416-3.
- Dorothee Mussgnug (ed.): correspondence Karl Josef Anton Mittermaierstrasse - Robert von Mohl. ( = Study of European Legal History, 179 ) Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-465-03402-3.
- Dorothee Mussgnug (ed.): Letters Theodor Goltdammers to Karl Josef Anton Mittermaierstrasse. ( = Study of European Legal History, 224 ) Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-465-04046-0.