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

J. von Voigts, 1804;new ed. by R . See also:

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

des deutschen Geistes (1896) .

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