Neller, Georg Christoph, Count

Neller, Georg Christoph, Count a German canonist, was born at Aub (bishopric of Wirzburg) in 1710. He entered holy orders in 1748, was nominated professor of the canon law at Treves, where he received a canonicate; he next became counsellor of the elector of Treves, and was then elevated to the dignity of count palatine. He died at Treves in 1783. We have of his works, Principia juris publici ecclesiastici Catholicorum ad statuen Germaniae accommodata (Frankfort, 1746 and 1768, 8vo): — De Concordatis Germaniae (Treves, 1748): — De Jurisprudentia Trevirorum sub Romanis (ibid, 1752): — De Jurisprudentia Trevirorum Belgica (ibid 1752): — Jurisprudentia Trevirorum ante-Romana, su Romanis, sub Francis et sub Germanis, in the Prodromus historiae Trevirensis of Montheim: Kurzer Unterricht von den alt-romischen,frankischen, trierischen und rheinlandischen Pfennigen und Hellern (ibid. 1763): — Dissertatio in Dagoberti diploma Horrense (ibid. 1770) many juridical dissertations, united in one collection, published at Treves in 1776 (4to). See Mensel, Lexikon, s.v.; Weidlich, Nachrichten, volumes 2 and 4.