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PUCHTA, GEORG FRIEDRICH (1798—1846)
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See also:PUCHTA, GEORG See also:FRIEDRICH (1798—1846) , See also:German jurist, See also:born at Kadolzburg in See also:Bavaria on the 31st of See also:August 1798, came of an old Bohemian See also:Protestant See also:family which had immigrated into See also:Germany to avoid religious persecution. His See also:father, Wolfgang Heinrich Puchta (1769—1845), a legal writer and See also:district See also:judge, imbued his son with legal conceptions and principles. From 1811 to 1816 See also:young Puchta attended the gymnasium at See also:Nuremberg, where he acquired a See also:taste for Hegelianism. In 1816 he went to the university of See also:Erlangen, where, in addition to being initiated by his father into legal practice, he See also:fell under the See also:influence of the writings of See also:Savigny and See also:Niebuhr. Taking his See also:doctor's degree at Erlangen, he established himself here in 1820 as privatdozent, and in 1823 was made See also:professor extraordinary of See also:law. In 1828 he was appointed See also:ordinary professor of See also:Roman law at See also:Munich. In 1835 he was appointed to the See also:chair of Roman and ecclesiastical law at See also:Marburg, but he See also:left this for See also:Leipzig in 1837, and in 1842 he succeeded Savigny at See also:Berlin. In 1845 Puchta was made a member of the See also:council of See also:state (Staalsrat) and of the legislative See also:commission (Gesetzgebungskommission). He died at Berlin on the 8th of See also:January 1846. His See also:chief merit as a jurist See also:lay in breaking with past unscientific methods in the teaching of Roman law and in making its spirit intelligible to students. Among his writings must be especially mentioned Lehrbuch der Pandekten (Leipzig, 1838, and many later See also:editions), in which he elucidated the dogmatic essence of Roman law in a manner never before attempted; and the Kursus der Institutionen (Leipzig, 1841—1847, and later editions), which gives a clear picture of the organic development of law among the See also:Romans. Among his other writings are Das Gewohnheitsrecht (Erlangen, 1828—1837); and Einleitung in das Recht der Kirche (Leipzig, 1840). Puchta's Kleine zivilistische Schriflen (posthumously published in 1851 by Professor A. A. Friedrich Rudorff), is a collection of See also:thirty-eight masterly essays on various branches of Roman law, and the See also:preface contains a sympathetic See also:biographical See also:sketch of the jurist. See also Zeher, Uber See also:die von Puchta der Darsiellung See also:des romischen Rechts zu Grunde gelegten rechtsphilosophischen Ansichten (1853).
PUCKLER-MUSKAU, See also:HERMANN See also:LUDWIG HEINRICH, See also:FURST VON (1785—1871), German author, was born at Muskau in See also:Lusatia on the 3oth of See also:October 1785. He served for some See also:time in the bodyguard at See also:Dresden, and afterwards travelled in See also:France and See also:Italy. In 1811, after the See also:death of his father, he inherited the See also:barony of Muskau and a considerable See also:fortune. As an officer under the See also:duke of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar he distinguished himself in the See also:war of liberation and was made military and See also:civil See also:governor of See also:Bruges. After the war he retired from the See also:army and visited See also:England, where he remained about a See also:year. In 1822, in See also:compensation for certain privileges which he resigned, he was raised to the See also:rank of Furst by the See also: In 1845 he sold this See also:estate to See also:Prince See also:Frederick of the See also:Netherlands, and, although he afterwards lived from time to time at various places in Germany and Italy, his See also:principal See also:residence was his seat, Schloss Branitz near Kottbus, where he laid out splendid gardens as he had already done at Muskau. In 1863 he was made an hereditary member of the Prussian Herrenhaus, and in 1866 he attended the Prussian See also:general See also:staff in the war with See also:Austria. He died at Branitz on the 4th of See also:February 1871, and, in accordance with instructions in his will, his See also:body was cremated. As a writer of books of travel he held a high position, his See also:power of observation being keen and his See also:style lucid and animated. His first See also:work was Briefe eines Verstorbenen (4 vols., 1830—1831), in which he expressed many See also:independent judgments about England and other countries he had visited and about prominent persons whom he had met. Among his later books of travel were Semilassos vorletzter Weltgang (3 vols., 1835), Semilasso in A frik a (5 vols., 1836), A us Mehemed- A lisReich (3 vols., 1844) and Die Riickkehr (3 vols., 1846—1848). He was also the author of Andeutungen fiber Landschaftsgartnerei (1834). See Ludmilla Assing, Puckler-Muskaus Briefwechsel and Tagebucher (9 vols., 1873—1876) ; Furst Hermann von Puckler-Muskau (1873) ; and Petzold, Furst Hermann von Puckler-Muskau in seiner Bedeutung See also:fur die bildende Gartenkunst (1874). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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