Andreas Weiss (lawyer) – Wikipedia

Andreas Weiss , also Andreas Weis , Andreas Weiß and Andreas Weyssius (Born October 24, 1713 in Basel, † April 5, 1792 in Augst) was a Swiss lawyer.

The son of the Grand Council and Oberwreiber of the Basel Hospital Lic. iur. Emanuel Weiss and his wife Anna Maria Faesch (* 1691), the daughter of the professor of rights at the University of Basel Sebastian Fäsch (born July 6, 1647 in Basel, † May 27, 1712 ibid.) And his wife Anna Maria Winkelblech, came From a respected Basel citizen family. After receiving private training from his parents, Weiss initially studied philosophical sciences at the University of Basel from 1724. Here he acquired June 3, 1727 under Johann I Bernoulli with the topic an unpleasant person of terrificing no worse the Baccalaurat and on June 10, 1728 under Samuel Battier (1667–1744) with the treatise The Law of Thebanians, by which Aristotle teaches, the administration of the Republic of the Hotter, who is by ten years, from the Matter The highest philosophical degree of a master. On March 16, 1734, he was appointed professor of ethics, as well as natural and international law in Basel, which task he was on May 20 with the introductory speech The use of the new Covenant in the practical philosophy took over.

Weiss completed an educational trip in 1735, which led him through France, the Netherlands and Germany. He was returned to Basel on June 6, 1737 with the treatise The use of equity in the intterpreation of the law (Basel 1737) As a doctorate for the doctor, he became the second ordinary librarian in 1741, 1745 rector of the Basel educational institution and 1746 supervisor of the university library.

On June 15, 1747, he received an appeal as a professor of rights to the university. On October 9, 1747, he took over his chair of nature and international law with the speech The protection of the Juris public interpreting . In addition, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university in Leiden and was rector of Alma Mater in 1753/54. He put this office with the speech for institution noble academia low.

On August 8, 1759, he became a teacher of Prince Wilhelm V in Den Haag, received the title of a honorary professor for public and private law in Leiden on November 8, 1760 and suffered from 1766 after the prince’s occurrence. Discharged from his professorship in 1773, he returned to Basel. Here he became a council member in the Grand Council in the same year and took over the supervision of the family-related art and rarity collection of the Faesch Museum. From 1775 to 1783 he had acted as a member of the small Basel Council and was an assessor in the Basel city court from 1778 to 1783. Then retired to his estate Augst near Basel, where he spent his last years of life. He died unmarried.

• Diss. Theses logic. Basel 1731
• Diss. Specimen rhetoric. Basel 1733
• Diss. Theses morales. Basel 1734
• Discussions of the use of equity in the interpretation of the law. Basel 1737
• Diss. On the right of victory. Basel 1738,
• Diss. The man of the war. Basel 1742
• The work of Pandectarum, and his interpretation, some generally etc. To whom are subject to the heads of the Nulla of the Church of the Church. Basel 1746
• Address to the Prince of Arausionensem and Nassoviensem, Wilhelmum V. Leiden 1766

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