Johann Ulrich von Cramer
German judge, legal scholar and Enlightenment philosopher
Johann Ulrich von Cramer (8 November 1706 – 18 June 1772) was an eminent German judge, legal scholar, and Enlightenment philosopher.
Biography
Cramer was the most important representative of Wolffianism in the area of law; he was first a university professor at the University of Marburg and then one of the highest judges of the Holy Roman Empire, both in Vienna and Wetzlar.[1]
Works
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- JCramer, Johann Ulrich von. Opuscula, 5 vols., Wolfgang Drechsler (ed.). Christian Wolff, Gesammelte Werke, IIIrd series, vol. 34, pts. 1–5, Hildesheim - Zürich - New York: Olms, 1996.
- Cramer, Johann Ulrich von. Sammlung juristischer Ausführungen einiger vertheidigten Rechts-Sachen, welche bey denen höchsten Reichs-Gerichtern durch den Druck bekandt gemacht worden. - Wetzlar, 1759. digital
References
- ^ Döhring, Erich. Cramer, Johann Ulrich Freiherr von in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, 3 (1957), S. 39
Further reading
- De iurisconsulto inventore.
- De pacto hereditario renunciativo filiae nobilis.
- Specimen novum intellectus legum profundius eruendi (in Latin). Marburg: Philipp Kasimir Müller. 1732.
- Specimen novum iuris naturalis de aequitate in probabilibus.
External links
- Ulrich von Cramer (1706-1772), BnF
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