Heinrich Escher (jurist)
Heinrich Escher (vom Glas) (23 April 1789 – 9 February 1870) was a Swiss lawyer, politician and legal scholar.
Biography
Heinrich Escher was born in Zurich, the son of the silk manufacturer and guild clerk of the Zunft zur Meisen Caspar Escher vom Glas and his wife Susanna (née Meyer), the daughter of a cotton manufacturer. Because of his good prospects, he was destined by his father for the clergy and therefore attended the upper grammar school of the theologically orientated Collegium Carolinum in Zurich. However, he avoided the prescribed career choice by accepting a position as an unpaid chancellor. In 1806, he was offered a paid position. Through an uncle, he spent 1808/1809 in Neuchâtel and 1809/10 in Paris. After his return to Zurich in spring 1810, he initially worked again as a voluntary chancellor at the Commission of the Interior and the Judicial Commission. At the same time, he continued his education at the Political Institute in Zurich.
On 14 October 1809, Heinrich Escher enrolled at Heidelberg University, where he became a member of the Corps of Upper-Rhiners in 1809 and the Helvetia in 1811. On his departure from the university, he was accompanied by the Helvetians with a comitat via Wiesloch to Langenbrücken.[1]
Although he left Heidelberg without a degree, he was appointed public prosecutor on his return to Zurich in 1812. From 1819 to 1831 he was Grand-Bailiff in Grüningen and also a member of the Grand Council. From 1831 to 1833 he was President of the Criminal Court and from 1833 to 1839 a member of the cantonal government of Zurich. He then worked as a lawyer.
He was also active in legal teaching. He was a lecturer at the Political Institute from 1812 to 1819 and from 1831 to 1833 and an associate professor of law at the University of Zurich from 1833 to 1870. He was also editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 1832 to 1833 and from 1834 to 1837.
Escher was regarded as the most versatile, but also the most unconventional legal scholar in the canton of Zurich. In 1819, he was commissioned to draw up a penal code and a code of criminal procedure for the canton.
Heinrich Escher died in Hottingen.
Works
- Über die Philosophie des Staatsrechts, mit besonderer Beziehung auf die Haller'sche Restauration (1821)
- Vier Abhandlungen über Gegenstände der Strafrechtswissenschaft (1822)
- Die Lehre von dem strafbaren Betruge und von der Fälschung nach römischem, englischem und französischem Rechte und den neueren deutschen Gesetzgebungen (1840)
- Die neue Phönixperiode der Staatswissenschaft (1848)
- Handbuch der praktischen Politik (1863–1864; 2 volumes)
- Erinnerungen aus mehr als sechszig Jahren (1866–1867; 2 volumes)
Notes
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- Brie, Siegfried (1877). "Escher, Heinrich". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 6. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 355–57.
- Schmid, Bruno (2004). "Escher, Heinrich (vom Glas)". In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.
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- ↑ Hoffmann, Florian (2018). "Einträge von Schweizer Studenten im Stammbuch des Studiosus Karl Ferdinand von Gerolt. Ein Stammbuch aus Heidelberg, um 1810," Studentica Helvetica. Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Studentengeschichte, Vol. LXVII, p. 17.
