Johann Georg Lori
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Copper engraving by Joseph Anton Zimmermann after a painting by Johann Georg Edlinger
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17 July 1723 Steingaden, Bavaria |
| Died | 23 March 1787 (aged 63) Neuburg an der Donau, Bavaria |
| Nationality | Bavarian |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Johann Georg von Lori (17 July 1723 – 23 March 1787) was a Bavarian high official, lawyer and historian. He was the driving force behind the foundation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1759.
Johann Georg von Lori was born on 17 July 1723 in the Gründel Inn near Steingaden, Bavaria, a property of the former Premonstratensian Steingaden Abbey. His family was Italian in origin, but had settled in Bavaria at the time of the Welf dukes. He attended elementary school at the monastery, then studied at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Augsburg. The wealthy Augsburg patrician and later mayor Jakob Wilhelm Benedikt von Langenmantel was one of the financial sponsors of his education.
In 1740 Lori became a law student in Dillingen, and in 1744 moved on to Würzburg. In Würzburg Lori was influenced by the new ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. He studied under Professor Johann Caspar Barthel, who was impressed by energy and ambition of the young man. Lori went on to the University of Ingolstadt, where Professor Johann Adam von Ickstatt recognized his great ability and in 1746 made him a legal tutor. In 1748 Lori wrote a doctorate in the University of Ingolstadt for Johann Georg Weishaupt.
In 1749 Lori was appointed professor of criminal law and legal history at Ingolstad. He met the Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, with whom he discussed the rationalist philosophy of Christian Wolff and Johann Gottlieb Heineccius. In September 1750 he was given the opportunity to travel to Italy. He obtained a one-year sabbatical and a scholarship of 400 fl from the university, and left in the second half of November 1750. He traveled via Venice and Ferrara to Rome. He heard there of the collection of documents from the Bibliotheca Palatina that Maximilian I had sent to Pope Gregory XV after the fall of Heidelberg. He managed to obtain permission to access the collection and make a catalog. On 7 July shortly before leaving Rome, he had a short audience with Pope Benedict XIV.
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