Theodore Erasmus Hilgard

Theodore Erasmus Hilgard (* July 7, 1790 in Marnheim, Germany, † February 14, 1873 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar.

Until 1811, he studied in Heidelberg, Göttingen, Paris and Koblenz, after which he worked as a lawyer at the Court of Appeal in Trier, later he became a judge. In 1821 he became a member of the chief administrative officer of the Palatinate; 1826 he was appointed Appellationsgerichtsrat.

In the Hambach Festival in 1832 he took part, although not personally, but openly sympathized with the freedom and unity movement. He also criticized the government, accusing it of Denunziantentums, which earned him a rebuke on the orders of the Bavarian King Ludwig I. of. Thereupon Hilgard decided with his family to the United States to emigrate to there build a new life.

1835 Hilgard wandered out to Belleville, Illinois, where I already had settled some of his relatives. He acquired large tracts of land, operated a winery and worked as a fruit farmer. He managed several grape varieties in the U.S. to make at home. He devoted himself now increasingly also in journalism. Hilgard also considered the founder of the cities West Belleville and Freedom in Illinois (see Latin settlement).

In 1851 he followed a call from home and returned to Germany to assist in land reform. From 1855 he taught at the University of Heidelberg.

Also, two of Hilgard's sons, Julius Erasmus and Eugene Waldemar, gained lasting fame as a scientist in the United States; his nephew Heinrich Hilgard went on to become a famous American railroad tycoon.

Works

  • Annals of the judiciary in the Rhine Bavaria, or representation strange legal cases and their decision through the courts upper Rhine Bavaria in the areas of civil and Crimial law. 2 vols, Zweibrücken 1830-1831
  • Five paragraphs on Germany's national unity and their relation to freedom, Zweibrücken 1849 digitized
  • A Voice from North America. Ten paragraphs on constitutional monarchy and republic. Groos, Heidelberg 1849
  • My memories. Mohr, Heidelberg 1860
  • About the retention or abolition of the death penalty, with special reference to Mittermaier last writing on this subject. Stuttgart 1868
  • Women's rights. Washington, D.C.: typecaster: 1869
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