Johann Gottlieb Heineccius
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius ( born September 11, 1681 Eisenberg; † August 31, 1741 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a German legal scholar.
Life
Heineccius was born as the son of the teacher Johann Michael Heinecke. Since his father died in his eleventh year, he made himself further and attended school in Eisenberg. In 1698 he moved to his brother, the preacher Johann Michael Heineccius, to Goslar, where he attended the local school. He then studied theology at the University of Leipzig. With fondness, he devoted himself to the study of church history and chronological studies, which he attended the lectures of Schmid, Rechenberg and Ittig. After earning Master's degree in 1703, he went with the hope back to theological Office to Goslar. Here he had sermons and made the decision to complete a law degree. His brother got a job in Halle ( Saale) at the Ulrich Church, Johann Gottlieb followed him. As a tutor of Russian Count Gallowkin brothers who were studying law, he had contact with the subject and was also able to finance his studies.
After he had frequented the lectures of Samuel Stryk and had also heard deals with the philosophical sciences, took him in 1708 the faculty of philosophy as an adjunct to, and he became in 1713 professor of philosophy. 1716 he obtained his PhD of Law, and in 1720 he was appointed associate professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Halle. In 1721 he became a full professor and received the title of court councilor. The states of West Friesland appointed him in 1724 to the University of Franeker to full professor. Three years later, the Prussian king appointed him to the University of Frankfurt ( Oder), where Heineccius planned to stay permanently as a professor of the Pandects and the philosophical morality, and bought a house. There he was in 1731 appointed to the Privy. However, he had to return at the behest of the king back to Halle, because among other things it compensate for the loss of Christian Wolff was and taught there from May 1733. Heineccius had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Halle University and was 1734/35 Vice-Rector of the Alma Mater. During this time he lived in the Great Märkerstraße 10, where he also died on August 31 in 1741. Buried he was in Stadtgottesacker Halles in the flying buttress of the University Chancellor Johann Peter von Ludewig.
Family
Heineccius had married on February 18, 1716 Clara Johanna Henriette († 1723), the daughter of a prince Brunswick Upper bailiff of Jerrenheim. From this marriage three children come: