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Johann Ulrich von Cramer

Johann Ulrich von Cramer

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Johann Ulrich von Cramer (8 November 1706 – 18 June 1772) was an eminent German judge, legal scholar, and Enlightenment philosopher.

Johann Ulrich von Cramer, by Johann Jacob Haid.

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

Specimen novum intellectus legum profundius eruendi, 1732
  • 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

  1. [1]
    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.

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