Karl Gustav Homeyer
Carl Gustav Homeyer ( born August 13, 1795 in Wolgast, † October 20, 1874 in Berlin) was a German jurist, law historian and specialist in German.
Life
Carl Gustav Homeyer was a son of Wolgaster shipowner and grain wholesaler Johann Friedrich Homeyer and his wife Sophie Dorothea Droysen. During the Napoleonic occupation of Swedish Pomerania - up kept the family from 1806 to 1810 in Sweden. After his return he visited the Greifswald Stadtrschule and the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Gymnasium in Berlin. In 1813 he enrolled at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin, where he studied law at Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, and Johann Friedrich Ludwig Goschen. He also heard story of Friedrich Rühs. After the Universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg he was visiting his doctorate in 1821 quaedam in Berlin with a thesis Historiae juris pomeranici capita and habilitated in the same year as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law.
1824 appointed extraordinary, in 1827 ordinary professor of law, he taught until 1872 at the Berlin University. Three times he was dean of the law school. He lectured on German state and legal history, on private law, the Prussian law as well as trade, exchange and maritime law.
It was 1845 Secret Obertribunalsrat which position he gave up in 1867 again in 1850 a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1854 the State Council and in the same year Kronsyndikus and a member of the First Chamber, the later manor, for life.
As a writer, he earned first made a name by his translation of Kolderup - Rosenvinges plan of the Danish History of Law (Berlin 1825), even more so by his truly classic issues of the Saxon law books, including the Sachsenspiegel through which he on a hitherto unimagined the Germanistic legal source criticism height rose.
The land rights of the Sachsenspiegel, which he three times in ever more perfect figure published (Berlin 1827, 2nd ed 1835, 3rd ed 1861), followed as the second part of The Saxon feudal law and the Richtsteig feudal law " (1842 ), also The Auctor vetus de beneficiis, the Görlitz law book and the system of feudalism (1844 ), which outputs to the Richtsteig land rights, in addition Cautela and Premis ( 1857) joined.
Also for the rest of the German law books created by Homeyer its directory German law books of the Middle Ages and their manuscripts ( Berlin, 1836. Processing in new 1856 complete revision by U.-D. Oppitz 1990) a firm foundation. Further details on all these works he laid in numerous treatises, which he read in the academy down.
In addition, he wrote: The position of the Sachsenspiegel to Schwabenspiegel (Berlin 1853), in which work he proved against Alexander von Daniels, the priority of the Sachsenspiegel before Schwabenspiegel with convincing reasons; The position of the Sachsenspiegel to Parentelenordnung (Berlin 1860).
His last, long -prepared work on the subject matter he was led by his study of the Hantgemal (1852 ), was a comprehensive illustration of house and Hofmarken (Berlin 1870).
Family
He married in 1823 his cousin Pauline Stenzler (* 1805), daughter of the Superintendent Stenzler Lorenz and his wife Charlotte Droysen. His brother Adolf Friedrich Stenzler was professor of Oriental languages in Wroclaw.