George Phillips (canon lawyer)

George Phillips ( born January 6, 1804 in Königsberg, † September 6, 1872 in Aigen (Salzburg ) and George Phillips ) was a legal historian and canonist.

Life

He was born the son of the English businessman James Phillips and his wife Eleanor. In 1822 he began the study of law in Berlin, which he continued at the University of Göttingen, where he also received his doctorate. After he had spent to study in the UK, Phillips habilitated to German law in Berlin. In 1827 he was appointed associate professor in Berlin. In 1828 he joined forces with his wife Charlotte ( née Housselle ) converted to Catholicism.

In 1833 he moved to Munich as Ministerial. There he took the following year, a professor of history and was later Professor of Law. He was in 1838 one of the founders and owners of the historical- political music for Catholic Germany. In connection with the affair of Lola Montez however, he was dismissed from the position as a professor. From May 18 1848 to May 7, 1849, he was non-attached, the Catholic Club fed listening, a deputy in the Frankfurt National Assembly on 8 Lower Bavarian constituency in Deggendorf. In 1850 a professor at the University of Innsbruck. Phillips changed but back in 1851 to a chair of the Law School of the University of Vienna.

In 1894 in Vienna Penzing ( 14th district ) was named the Phillip Street after him.

His brother was the Prussian politician Adolph Phillips the elder.