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JOHANN JAKOB MOSER (1701-1785)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAKOB See also:MOSER (1701-1785)  , See also:German jurist, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart on the 18th of See also:January 1701 . He studied at the university of See also:Tubingen, where, at the See also:early See also:age of nineteen, he was appointed extraordinary See also:professor of See also:law . In 1729 he became See also:ordinary professor, and in 1736 he accepted a See also:chair and directorship in the university of See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Oder . On See also:account, however, of See also:differences with See also:King See also:Frederick See also:William I. of See also:Prussia, he resigned these offices in 1739 and retired to Ebersdorf, a See also:village in the principality of See also:Reuss, where for several years he devoted himself wholly to study, and especially to the See also:production of his Deutsches Staatsrecht . In 1751 he was recalled to Wurtemberg as See also:district counsellor, and in 1759 was imprisoned at Hohentwiel on account of the steps he had taken in connexion with this See also:office against certain tyrannical proceedings of the See also:duke . In 1764 he received his See also:liberty and was restored to office . He died on the 3oth of See also:September 1785 . See also:Moser was the first to discuss in an adequate See also:form the subject of See also:European See also:international law . He wrote more than 500 volumes, his See also:principal See also:works being Deutsches Staatsrecht (1737—1754), Neues deutsches Staatsrecht (1766—1775), Deutsches Staatsarchiv (1751—1757), Grundriss der heutigen Staatsverfassung von See also:Deutsch-See also:land (1754)• See Schmid, Das Leben J . J . Mosers (1868) ; Schulze, J . J .

Moser, der Vater See also:

des deutschen Staatsrechts (1869) .

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