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Mikkel Munthe Jensen
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2026-04-29
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Mellmann, Johann Dietrich (* 1746.10.02 † 1801.08.18)
Biographical and Intellectual Profile
Biography
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Biographical Data
Education
1766.05.01 - ../1770, Jurisprudence, University of Göttingen
Degrees
1770, Doctor of law, University of Kiel
Teaching
1783, Winter semester, "Law of nations", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1784, Summer semester, "Practices and policies of European law of nations", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
Career
1770 - 1773, Docentus, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
1773 - 1801, Ordinary professor of process law, Institutiones, German law, and criminal law, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
Titles, Memberships and Other Relevant Roles
1784, Member, Spruchcollegium, Kiel
Bibliographical Data
Printed Sources
Books
Commentatio de interpretatione legum Romanarum; praesertim codicis repetitae praelectionis (Kiel: Bartsch, 1770): Digital version
Betrachtung über den behutsamen Gebrauch der Geschichte (Göttingen, Kiel: Bossiegel, 1772).
Merkwürdige Rechtsfälle: nebst einer kurzen Betrachtung über die Geschichte und den Gebrauch des deutschen Privatrechts (Schwerin: Buchenröder, Ritter, 1775).
Selecta capita doctrinae de fideicommissis familiarum nobilium ex iure Megapolitano et Slesvico-Holsatico (Altona, Leipzig: Kaven, 1793): Digital version
Einleitung in das gemeine und Schleswig-Holsteinische Damm- Deich- Siel- und Schleusen-Recht (Altona: Kaven, 1795).
Manuscript Sources
Natural Law Network
Personal Connections
1773, Karl Friedrich Winkler, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1773, Andreas Weber, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1773, Wilhelm Ernst Christiani, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1775, Adolf Friedrich Trendelenburg, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1776, Johan Christian Majer, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1776, Johann Daniel Heinrich Musäus, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1776, Martin Ehlers, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1780, Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1782, Johann Georg Wiggers, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1784, Adolph Diederich Weber, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1790, Johann Heinrich Meyer, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1793, Karl Heinrich Reinhold, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1795, Wilhelm Friedrich August Mackensen, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
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. 31.
Sources
Matriculation (Göttingen): Die Matrikel der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen, 1734-1837, ed. Götz von Selle (Leipzig: 1937), p.162, no. 7442.
Online Resources
Teichmann: "Mellmann, Johann Dietrich" in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 21 (1885), p. 301 [Online-Version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd100523552.html#adbcontent
Acknowledgement
Profile Author:
Mikkel Munthe Jensen
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How to Cite This Profile
Jensen, Mikkel Munthe, "Johann Dietrich Mellmann" 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_82