August Ludwig Schott


August Ludwig Schott was a German lawyer and professor.
August Ludwig Schott was a lawyer, solicitor and professor for law in Tübingen and later court counselor in Erlangen.

Life

August Ludwig Schott was the son of Christoph Friedrich Schott, a priest and professor in Tübingen. He studied in Tübingen, matriculated in 1768, then studied law and received a law degree in 1772.
From 1774 on he practiced law in Württemberg, and proceeded to make a name for himself within the academic community. In September 1778 he was named a law professor at the University of Tübingen. In 1781 he was ordained as the fifth law professor at the University of Erlangen, in 1783 he became an advisor in the Brandenburgian government, and in 1784 he returned to his faculty post.

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