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| birth_place = Brilon, Westphalia, Prussia17532004df=y}}| death_place = Heiligenthal near Würzburg, Bavaria| nationality = Prussian, Bavarian| other_names =| occupation = Lawyer| known_for =}}Johann Georg Weishaupt (24 April 1717 – 20 September 1753) was a professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt.Weishaupt was born in Brilon in the Prussian government district of Arnsberg in Westphalia.{{sfn|Engel|1906|p=22}}He studied law in the University of Würzburg under Johann Adam von Ickstatt (1702–1776). He received a doctorate in law in 1743 and began to teach at the university.His dissertation was on Dissertatio Juris Publici Universalis De Summo Imperio Atque Inde Descendente Jure, Obligatione, & Potestate.{{sfn|Weishaupt|1743}}Johann Adam von Ickstatt became a professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt in 1746.Weishaupt also moved from Würzburg to the University of Ingolstadt.{{sfn|Klippel|2013}}Ickstatt had him appointed professor of imperial institutions and criminal law by decree of 14 October 1746.{{sfn|Engel|1906|p=22}}He held this position until his death. One of his pupils was the future historian Johann Georg von Lori, who wrote a doctorate in the University of Ingolstadt in 1748.{{sfn|Lory|2009|p=9}}Weishaupt died suddenly while on holiday on 20 September 1753 in Heiligenthal near Würzburg. Weishaupt's son, Adam Weishaupt, was born on 6 February 1748 in Ingolstadt, and was just five years old when his father died.Johann Adam von Ickstatt, also a professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt and Adam's godfather, took over Adam Weishaupt's upbringing.{{sfn|Engel|1906|p=22}}

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Citations{{reflist |colwidth=30em}}Sources

• BOOK, Geschichte des Illuminaten-Ordens, 1906

• JOURNAL, Lory, Roland, Ein Staatsmann aus dem Pfaffenwinkel, Weilheimer Tagblatt, Wochenendausgabe, 5 December 2009,
• WEB,weblink

• BOOK, Weishaupt, Johann Georg, Dissertatio Juris Publici Universalis De Summo Imperio Atque Inde Descendente Jure, Obligatione, & Potestate

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