Family Name: Colditz
First Name: Hans Friedrich Carl von
Birth Date: Thu, Jun 15, 1786
Birth Place: Schleswig
Death Date: 1871
Main places of activity:
Place From
Krempe 1811
Place From
Wyck auf Föhr 1817
Place From
Oldesloe 1823
Personal info:
Career

Colditz spent his career in local and provincial administration, becoming a Danish privy councillor in 1824.
Translations Other Works

translations activities

Colditz translated two influential works on the English constitution.

secondary bibliography references

As an official, Colditz appears regularly in contemporary directories.

He is mentioned in Erich Angermann, "Dahlmann, Friedrich" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 3 (1957), p. 478-480.

Translations

  • Commentaries on the Laws of England

  • Translation Title: W. Blackstone's Handbuch des Englischen Rechts, im Auszuge und mit Hinzufügung der neueren Gesetze und Entscheidungen von John Gifford, Esq.
  • Original Author: William Blackstone
  • Original title: Commentaries on the Laws of England
  • Publ. Year From: 1764 to: 1769
  • lang: English
  • Title: Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws and constitution of England: abridged for the use of students, and adapted to modern statutes and decisions
  • Publisher: Richard Phillips
  • Pub. Place: London
  • Pub. Year: 1819
  • Lang: English
  • Note:

    When John Gifford died in 1818, Edward Foss completed the work.

  • Translation: W. Blackstone's Handbuch des Englischen Rechts, im Auszuge und mit Hinzufügung der neueren Gesetze und Entscheidungen von John Gifford, Esq.
  • Publisher: Königliches Taubstummen-Institut
  • Pub. Place: Schleswig
  • Pub. Date: 1821
  • Lang: German
  • Note:

    With an introduction by Nikolaus Falck

  • Constitution de l’Angleterre ou État du gouvernement anglais comparé avec la forme républicaine et avec les autres monarchies de l’Europe

  • Translation Title: Die Verfassung von England, dargestellt und mit der republicanischen Form und mit andern europäischen Monarchien verglichen
  • Original Author: Jean Louis de Lolme
  • Original title: Constitution de l’Angleterre ou État du gouvernement anglais comparé avec la forme républicaine et avec les autres monarchies de l’Europe
  • Publ. Year From: 1770 to:
  • lang: English
  • Note:

    The work first soon appeared in English as The Constitution of England; or, an Account of the English Government; in which it is compared with the Republican Form of Government and occasionally with the Other Monarchies in Europe (London, 1775). A first German translation had appeared in 1776. The English edition saw major revisions by its author in 1781 and 1784.
  • Title: The constitution of England, or, an account of the English government; in which it is compared, both with the republican form of government, and the other monarchies in Europe. A new edition, with supplemental notes, and a preface biographical and critical
  • Publisher: G. Wilkie et al.
  • Pub. Place: London
  • Pub. Year: 1815
  • Lang: English
  • Translation: Die Verfassung von England, dargestellt und mit der republicanischen Form und mit andern europäischen Monarchien verglichen
  • Publisher: Johann Friedrich Hammerich
  • Pub. Place: Altona
  • Pub. Date: 1818
  • Lang: German
  • Note:

    With an introduction by Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann.

    The first three chapters had already appeared in the Kieler Blätter in 1818.


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