HEINECCIUS, JOHANN GOTTLIEB, a learned jurist of Germany, b. Sept. 11, 1681, at Eisenberg, studied theology at Leipsic, and law at Halle, where, in 1713, he was made professor of philosophy, and in 1720 professor of law. In the latter capacity he went, In 1723, to Franeker, in 1727 to Frankfort-on-the-Oder; but in 1733 returned, as pro fessor of law and philosophy, to Halle, where he died Aug. 31, 1741. His works display a thorough acquaintance with all the departments of jurisprudence, but espe cially with Roman and German law; and their varied learning, logical arrangement, and elegant Latin, long maintained for them a classical character. His Antirtitatum Jug Bornanum Illustrantium Syntagma, has been re-edited so lately as 1841 by Mifillenbruch, and his Elementa Arts Ci•ilis secundum Ordinem. Institutionum (edited by Biener, 1815); his Elementa Juris Chills secundum Ordinem Pandectarum. etc., are still studied by
jurists. Heineccius's SOD, JOHANN CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB HEINECCICS, Ii. 1718 at Halle, died 1791 at Sagak Wallex along time professor in the academy fpt ypung noblemeu at Liegnitz, and edited, besides several of his father's works separately, a complete collection of them (If. Opera Omnia, 9 vols., Geneva, 1771). Heineccius's brother, JOHANN MICHAELIS HEINECCIUS, b. at Eisenberg 1674, died Sept. 11, 1722, was a celebrated pulpit orator in Halle, and also the first who studied seals scientifically. His theological writings are forgotten, but he is remembered by his De Veteribus Ger Inctnorum aliarumque Nationum &galls (Leip. 1710; 2d ed. 1719), and by the work edited in conjunction with Leuckfeld, Scriptures Rerum GerManiCallinl (Frankf. 1707).