Profile Author:
Mikkel Munthe Jensen
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2026-04-29
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Gadendam, Johann Wilhelm (* 1709.xx.xx † 1771.08.08)
Biographical and Intellectual Profile
Biography
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Biographical Data
Education
.. - ../1733, Private schooling in Hamburg (Not much is known about Gadendam studies)
1733.05.20 - ../1742, University of Kiel
Degrees
../1742, Doctor of law
Teaching
1754-1755, Summer and winter semesters, "Natural law and universal law", public lecture courses, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel (On his lecture courses on natural law, Gadendam refers in 1754 to Joachim Georg Darjes)
1766, Winter semester, "Natural law and elemental law of nations", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
Career
1742 - 1743, Ordinary professor of history, Academia Fridericiana (Bayreuth)
1743 - 1745, Ordinary professor of law and history, University of Erlangen, Faculty of Law
1743 - 1745, Pro-chancellor, University of Erlangen
1751 - 1753, Advocatus fisci (financial lawyer) in Kiel
1753.09.28 - 1756, Ordinary professor (secundus) of law, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
1765 - 1771, Ordinary professor of canon law, criminal law and civil law, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
Bibliographical Data
Printed Sources
Books
Historia Academiae Fridericianae Erlangensis: Qva praeter eivs originem solemnia dedicationis sacra eventusque proxime secuti referuntur (Erlangen: Typographia Academica, 1744): Digital version
Gegründete Nachrichten von den Erb-Aemtern des Fürstenthums Burggrafthums Nürnberg der Durchlauchtigsten Herren Marggrafen zu Brandenburg in Franken: nebst einem Vorbericht von dem ältesten Zustande dieses Fürstenthums (Erlangen: Montag, 1745).
De ignavia et egestate utraque ignominiosa (Kiel: Bartsch, 1765): Digital version
Theses inaugurales singularia, quaedam compensationis et retentionis argumenta ex iure Lubecensi et Hamburgensi (Kiel: Bartsch, 1768).
Historia iuris Cimbrici speciatim Slesvicensis et Holsatici primis lineis consignata (Hamburg: Berthius, 1770).
Dissertations
Trutina foederum in statu libertatis naturalis (Erlangen: 1745), [Praeses: Johann Wilhelm Gadendam, Respondent: Georg Henrico Flemnitzer].
De forma antiqua. civitatum juticae et. Saxonicae tam publica. quam judiciaria (Kiel: Bartsch, 1767), [Praeses: Johann Wilhelm Gadendam, Respondent: Didericus Balemann]: Digital version
Dissertatio auspicalis iuridica de reo non absolvendo etiamsi actor probatione defecerit (Kiel: Bartsch, 1767) [Praeses: Johann Wilhelm Gadendam, Respondent: Georg Henrico Flemnitzer]: Digital version
Dissertationem auspicalem iuridicam de testamento iudici. per. procuratorem ad. acta. exhibito (Kiel: Bartsch, 1770): Digital version
Manuscript Sources
Natural Law Network
Personal Connections
1753, Amandus Christian Dorn, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1753, Karl Friedrich Winkler, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1753, Friedrich Gentzke, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1753, Philipp Friedrich Hane, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1753, Sebastian Kortholt, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1770, Johann Heinrich Fricke, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
References and Acknowledgement
Profile References
Literature
Volbehr, Friedrich & Richard Weyl: Professoren und Dozenten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665-1915 (Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1916) p. 30.
Ratjen, Henning: Chronik der Universität zu Kiel (Kiel: C. F. Mohr, 1860), p. 69-72.
Sources
Matriculation (Kiel): Das Album der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665 - 1865 ed. Franz Gundlach (Kiel, 1915), p. 86, no. 4172.
Portrait: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Bilddatei: onB9008849, URL: http://www.portraitindex.de/documents/obj/oai:baa.onb.at:9008849
Acknowledgement
Profile Author:
Mikkel Munthe Jensen
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How to Cite This Profile
Jensen, Mikkel Munthe, "Johann Wilhelm Gadendam" in Natural Law 1625-1850: Database, ed. Mikkel Munthe Jensen (Erfurt, Gotha, Jena: ThULB, 2019-), Canonical URL: https://naturallawdatabase.thulb.uni-jena.de/item/natlaw_18