Daniel Nettelbladt

Daniel Nettelbladt, also Nettelblatt (* January 14, 1719 in Rostock, † September 4, 1791 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a German lawyer. He was one of the most important legal scholars in the second half of the 18th century. Nettelbladt was royally Prussian Privy Councillor since 1765 and from 1775 violinist and president of the Law School of the University of Halle.

Life

Family

The family was represented through several generations in the city council of Rostock. His father Heinrich Nettelbladt (* 1664, † 1735) was a wealthy merchant and Senator Rostock. He married in 1714 his second wife the daughter of the Mecklenburg Council Chamber Dörcksen. The couple had two sons, Henry and Daniel. Nettelbladt Heinrich (* 1715 ) died in 1761 as Mayor of Rostock.

Professional career

1733, with 15 years, he was enrolled as an academic citizen at the University of Rostock. He chose to express Washed his father's theology as a course of study. During his studies he learned the philosophical and legal works of Christian Wolff and Johann Ulrich Cramer know, who influenced him greatly. 1735, after the death of his father, he changed the subject and now studied law. In his father's estate, he took a correspondence with Wolff, who promised his father to take care while studying his sons' for them. The Nettelbladts were related away with Wolff.

1739 Nattelbladt left his hometown and the university. He took over in Schwerin Mecklenburg scientific training of two nobles.

Easter 1740 he went to Marburg, where he met for the first time personally Christian Wolff and Johann Ulrich Cramer, who taught as professors at the University of Marburg. On both Nettelbladt took a deep personal relationship. In Marburg he attended lectures by Cramer on legal history, state and feudal law and philosophical and mathematical Wolff lectures. 1741, he went to Wolff to Halle, who in 1740 received an appointment to the University of Halle. There he lived with Wolff and was able to continue his legal studies. On March 17, 1744 Nettelbladt defended his doctor's thesis under the Government Chancellor Justus Henning Boehmer and was appointed doctor of both laws.

Instant Netttelbladt himself began to lecture, who found great popularity. He wrote his first scientific works, among others, in 1745 a " Systema elementary universae Hurisprudentiae positivae Imperii Romani communis. " And a " Systema universae jurisprudentiae naturalis. " Through his lectures and scientific work Nettelbladt was nationally known and has received numerous offers he but Wolff's Council refused. 1746 Nettelbladt was Professor of law at the University of Halle with the title of privy councilor, but without content. End of the year 1748, he was appointed as professor in Copenhagen with an annual salary of 1,000 rix-dollars. He traveled to Berlin in order to secure his release from Prussian state services, but was banned by the University Board of Trustees top. But Nettelbladt subsequently received a salary of 500 thalers, which was increased in 1750. In 1754 he became the third, in 1763, the second position as professor of Law at the University of Halle, and in 1765 the character of a royal Prussian Privy Council. On 21 October 1775 he appeared as a violinist and Präses to the top of Halle Law School and led at the same time the title of Director of the University and was also a short time later a senior at the University.

During the semester Nettelbladt held daily five to six lectures that encompassed the entire then- jurisdiction of a precisely -designed plan. This included civil, criminal, process and canon law, public law and legal philosophy and legal history. Early on, a memory deficit went with him felt that forced him to prepare for each lecture. His pupils included the future author of the general land laws for the Prussian states (1794 ) Carl Gottlieb Svarez, Johann Heinrich von Carmer and Ernst Ferdinand Klein.

Nettelbladt died on September 4, 1791 with 72 years in Halle. He was buried with great sympathy of the University and citizenship on 7 September 1791 the Halle Stadtgottesacker. His grave is located in the crypt arch 22

Marriage and issue

Daniel Nettelbladt married in 1746 Johanna Wilhelmine Soden († 1787), daughter of a regimental surgeon. The couple had two sons and two daughters. Both sons died early. The daughter Christiane Wilhelmine married the war and Domänenrat and Council champion Lichotius and her sister Henriette Auguste the captain of Deutecom. The two daughters died before their parents.