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JUSTUS MOSER (172o-1794)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUSTUS

MOSER (172o-1794)  , German publicist and states-man, was born at
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Osnabruck on the 14th of December, 1720 . Having studied jurisprudence at the
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universities of
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Jena and
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Gottingen, he settled in his native
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town as a lawyer . The confidence be inspired among his
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fellow citizens soon led to his being appointed advocatus patriae (state attorney) . On the appointment of the duke of York (son of George III. of England) to the
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lay
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Protestant bishopric of Osnabruck, he was attached to the person of the new ruler as legal adviser, and continued in this office of
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trust for twenty years . From 1762 to 1768 he was justiciarius (chief justice) of the criminal court in Osnabruck; and in 1768 was made Geheimer Referendar (privy councillor of justice) . He died at Osnabruck on the 8th of
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January 1794 . Not only as a statesman and
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administrator, but also as a publicist, Moser occupied a leading position among the men of his time . His
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history of Osnabruck (1768; 2nd ed . 1780; 3rd ed . 1819) is a masterly
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work . In his Patriotische Phantasien (1775—1786; 2nd ed. by his daughter, I . W .

J. von Voigts, 1804;new ed. by R .

Zollner, 1871) he shows himself in advance of his times, pleading as he does for a
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national organic development of a state in the place of arbitrary
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laws imposed by the
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sovereign . His Vermischte Schriften (published by F . Nicolai with a biography, 1797—1798) also display a deep insight into human nature and sparkle with humour and witty sallies . Moser was also a poet of some repute and wrote a tragedy, Arminius (1749) . A statue of him by Drake was unveiled in Osnabruck in 1836 . His collected
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works, Siimtliche Werke, were published by B . R . Abeken (10 vols., 1842—1844) . See J . Kreyssig, Justus Moser (1857); L . Rupprecht, Justus Mosers soziale and volkswirtschaftliche Anschauungen (1892) K .

Mollenhauer, Mosers Anteil an der Wiederbelebung

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des deutschen Geistes (1896) .

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