Johann Georg von Lori
Johann Georg von Lori ( born July 17, 1723 in Stone Gaden, † March 23, 1787 in Neuburg an der Donau) was a senior Bavarian official, lawyer and historian.
Life
The owner's son Lori was born in Gründl Steingaden. In Steingaden he went to elementary school before he moved to the Jesuit Gymnasium in Augsburg. From 1740 he took up the study of law in Dillingen and 1744 in Würzburg. The wealthy Augsburg patrician and later mayor Jakob Wilhelm Benedict of Long Coat was one of the promoters of his financial Ausbildung.In Würzburg Lori was influenced by the new views of the Age of Enlightenment. In 1748 he wrote a doctoral thesis in Ingolstadt at Johann Georg Weishaupt. 1749, he was appointed professor there of criminal law and legal history. As a sympathizer of the philosophy of Christian Freiherr von Wolff's he got there and the Jesuits in conflict, after which he was appointed in 1752 as a Councillor on the coin and College of Mines to Munich. He was first a member of the Bavarian learned society Parnassus Boicus and operation thereafter in collaboration with Dean Franz Töpsl, Andreas Felix von Oefele and Johann Georg Dominicus Linprun of the founding of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, by the Elector Maximilian III. Joseph was completed in 1759. After the Academy, he had founded there, he was the important position of secretary until 1761. 1768 to the Privy Council and clerk for foreign affairs. Loris political career took in June 1779 its end. Elector Karl Theodor relieved him of his office and let him bring in exile in Neuburg an der Donau.
Work and works
Lori has published several historical works. 1765 From his history of Lech Rains appeared only the second band with a still not replaced source collection. As Senior Director Berg, Count Sigmund von Haimhausen by Lori the historical development of the Bavarian mining law and mining write.
Politically, he was involved in the peace negotiations with Prussia of 1762/63 and later, after dissolution of the Jesuit Order, in the distribution of religious assets.