Justus Möser

Justus Möser (or Mösers or Moeser)

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Justus Möser (Osnabrück, Germany: December 14th 1720 - January 8th 1794) was large a Juriste, Historien and social theorist German.

Its life

Very attached to its birthplace, Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, as soon as it had finished its right, follow-up at the universities of Jena and Göttingen, it went back there to be established as simple lawyer there but it was named soon: advocatus patriae (state attorney (Prosecutor)) and sharpened by its fellow-citizens. Of 1762 with 1768 it was Justiciarius (chief of justice: Public prosecutor) of the criminal Court of Osnabrück (salaried person by the Land).

And in 1768, during 20 years, it was made it was also the Geheimer Referendar (to advise private justice or to advise legal) Prince-bishop Protesting of Osnabrück, Prince Frederic, Duc of York and Albany, wire of George III of the United Kingdom and the Queen consort Charlotte de Mecklembourg-Strelitz (and thus this time sharpened by the Prince).

Moreover, “spirit tending to Universal”, although Lawyer of formation , publicity agent, statesman and administrator of profession , Möser was also historian by passion' (historian Autodidacte and very versed in the social analyzes.

Emblematic personality of Osnabrück, its effigy carved by Drake was inaugurated there in 1836 and its memory remains still long-lived there.

Its Work

It was a recognized Historien, thus, its Histoire of Osnabrück of 1768 (2nde ED. 1780; 3rd ED. 1819) still referred.

Throughout an other of its works, " Patriotic imagination (Patriotische Phantasien) " published in 1775 and 1786 (2nde ED. by his/her daughter, IWJ Von Voigts , in 1804 and new ED. of Reinhard Zöllner, in 1871) he pled for a natural and organic development of the State]] instead of the arbitrary laws imposed by the sovereign .

But Möser was also a “Poète - Philosophe” , thus in its “Written various” (Vermischte Schriften , 1797-1798, published by Christophe Friedrich Nicolai with a Biographie), Möser exposes its sights on the Human nature with much of Humor and Esprit.

It was also Poète of some reputation and also published in 1749 a Tragédie, Arminius .

Critical S

Jean Moes, in 1986, extremely precisely raises this question: “Justus Moeser, cosmopolitan or nationalist Patriot xenophobe?” . Indeed in its work, Möser (that Moes writes Moesers), as near to its Native soil as rest of the world seems to constantly oscillate of the one with the other . He notices besides that " the Nazi S in full war, tried, in 1943, by publishing its complete works (HKA) a coarse attempt at récupération" .

Jerry Muller supported, him, in 2002 that the sights of Möser on the aspects economic S and Politique S of the Société strongly contrasted with those of the majority of its more famous contemporaries, such as Adam Smith. In fact, for Muller, Möser anticipated not only some of the ideas of the German Historical Ecole but also of the ideas of the social economy and the market economy. In a certain manner, Möser can be seen like the Germanic counterpart of Edmund Burke.

References

Its own works

By chronological order

“History of Osnabrück” (1768; 2nde ED. 1780; 3rd ED. 1819).

“Patriotische Phantasien (Patriotic Imagination)” (1775-1786; 2nde ED. by his/her own daughter, IWJ Von Voigts, in 1804; and new ED. of Reinhard Zöllner, in 1871).
“Vermischte Schriften (Written various)” , 1797-1798, published by Christophe Friedrich Nicolai with a Biography,
“Works complete (Sämtliche Werke)” , the collection in 10 volumes, was published by B.R. Abeken, in 1842-1844.

the original edition and this second edition were taken again in 1943 (nor place. nor ED.) under the title “Sämtliche Werke, Justus Mösers. Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe, hrsg” . Academies of Wissenschaften with Göttingen, Oldenburg, Hamburg and Osnabrück. (with ref. in summary: HKA, follow-up of the number of the volume in Roman numeral. E.g. of quotation: “HKA XII, 1, p.34”).

Not dated works (dubious dates or unknown factors)

Briefwechsel (Correspondence) .
Harlekin oder Verteidigung of Groteske-Komischen (Defense of Harlequin and the Comic Grotesque) .
Politische und juristische Schriften (Written political and legal) .
Sämtliche Werke (Written various) , in this work, Möser develops the topic of membership with the “Heimat (small the Patrie) ”, to which all its life this “Philosophe tightened - Historien”.

Literature: Writings on Justus Möser (by chronological order)

Goethe, J.W von, “Sämtliche Werke” , vol. XVII-XVIII, Aus meinem Leben, Wahrheit und Dichtung, Stuttgart 1850-1852, pp.133-134;
Kreyssig, J., 1857. Justus Moser.
Rupprecht, L., 1892. Justus Mösers soziale und volkswirtschaftliche Anschauungen.
Mollenhauer, K., 1892. Mösers Anteil year der Wiederbelebung of the deutschen Geistes.
Bäte, Ludwig: Justus Möser, advocatus patriae . - Frankfurt a.M., Athenäum Verl., 1961
Moes, Jean “Justus Moeser, Patriotic Cosmopolitan or Nationalist Xenophobe?” in Re-examined of Germany and the Countries of German language , volume XVIII n° October 4th, th and th - December 1986, p.643

Stauf, Renate: Justus Mösers Konzept einer deutschen Nationalidentität. MIT einem Ausblick auf Goethe. Tübingen 1991. ISBN 3-484-18114-1

Rosanvallon, Pierre. crowned of the citizen. History of the vote for all in France , Gallimard 1992, p.53 note: this work takes again a text of the Public records (ref.: 284 P 2 HAS, file 10,4).

Buck, Henning (Hrsg.): Patriotische Phantasien (Ausstellungskatalog). - Bramsche: Rasch, 1994, ISBN 3-930595-00-1

Welker, Karl H.L.: Rechtsgeschichte als Rechtspolitik. Justus Möser als Jurist und Staatsmann . - 2 Bände. Osnabrück 1996

Efler, Stefan: Der Einfluß Justus Mösers auf das poetische Werk Goethes . Laatzen: Wehrhahn, 1999. ISBN 3-932324-76-5

Writings where Justus Möser is quoted (by chronological order)

Ellul, Jacques, History of the Institutions T. 1-2, P.U.F coll THEMIS 1961, p.469
Muller, Jerry Z., 2002. The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought (the Spirit and the Market: the Capitalism in the Thought Occident ale . Anchor Books. London.

Source (S) quoted (S) by Justus Möser

Montesquieu, Of the spirit of the laws. ED. available: Garnier- Flammarion, 1979. A passage of Volume I, p.304 is quoted by Möser in HKA IX, p.265

External bonds (and warning)

works of Justus Möser appeared with the Gutenberg Project:

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