Samuel von Cocceji
Samuel Freiherr von Cocceji (pronounced kok-'tse-yi) (20 October 1679 – 4 October 1755) was a German official from the Electorate of the Palatinate who served Brandenburg-Prussia and the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the son of Heinrich von Cocceji.
Samuel von Cocceji | |
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 Portrait by Anna Rosina de Gasc (1737) | |
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| Born | 20 October 1679 Heidelberg |
| Died | 4 October 1755 (aged 75) Berlin |
| Parent | Heinrich von Cocceji (father) |
Cocceji was born on 20 October 1679 in Heidelberg.[1] In 1702 he became a professor of law at Viadrina University in Frankfurt (Oder). By 1723 he was Kammergerichtspräsident (president of the Kammergericht) and from 19 September 1731 to 1737 he served as the president of the Oberappellationsgericht zu Berlin (Court of Appeal in Berlin), the highest court of Prussia.[2]
In 1738 and 1739, Cocceji was chairman of the Prussian justice department, before he was made Großkanzler (grand chancellor) in 1747. King Frederick II of Prussia appointed Cocceji to lead the legal reorganization of annexed Silesia. Cocceji subsequently reformed the legal system of all of Prussia.
Cocceji died on 4 October 1755.[1]
Works
- Project des Corporis Juris Fridericiani (in French). Vol. 2. Berlin. 1752.
Notes
Regarding personal names: Freiherr is a former title (translated as Baron). In Germany since 1919, it forms part of family names. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin.
References
Citations
- Klemme & Kuehn 2016, p. 138.
- Sonnenschmidt 1879, pp. 416–422.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Cocceji, Samuel". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. p. 152.- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Klemme, Heiner F.; Kuehn, Manfred, eds. (2016). "Cocceji, Samuel von". The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. Bloomsbury. pp. 138–139. ISBN 9781474255981.
- Sonnenschmidt, Friedrich Hermann (1879). Geschichte des Königlichen Ober-Tribunals zu Berlin (in German). Berlin: Heymanns.
Further reading
- Döhring, Erich (1957), "Cocceji, Samuel Freiherr von", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 3, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 301–302; (full text online)