Ernst Ferdinand Klein
Ernst Ferdinand Klein (3 September 1744 in Breslau – 18 March 1810 in Berlin) was a German jurist and prominent representative of the Berlin Enlightenment.
Career
Klein studied law at
Allgemeines Landrecht. He was active in the Mittwochsgesellschaft (Wednesday Society): his Freiheit und Eigenthum (1790) was presented as a set of dialogues between members of the society. In 1791 he returned to Halle, and in 1800 was once again in Berlin as an Upper Court Councillor.[1]
Works
- Freiheit und Eigenthum [Freedom and Property], 1790
- Grundsätze des gemeinen deutschen und preußischen peinlichen Rechts. Halle 1796 (2nd ed. Halle 1799).
- Grundsätze der natürlichen Rechtswissenschaft, 1797
References
- ^ Schmidt, James (2006), "Klein, Ernst Ferdinand", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1190
Further reading
- Klaus Berndl, Ernst Ferdinand Klein Ein Zeitbild aus der zweiten Hälfte des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts ISBN 3-8258-6562-2
- Michael Kleensang: Das Konzept der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft bei Ernst Ferdinand Klein. Einstellungen zu Naturrecht, Eigentum, Staat und Gesetzgebung in Preußen 1780-1810 (=Studien zur Europäischen Rechtsgeschichte Bd. 108), Frankfurt 1998. ISBN 3-465-02903-8
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