John Baintner

* Liptóújvár, January 15, 1815 – † Pusztaberki, August 14, 1881 / lawyer, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; younger brother of Ferenc Baintner. He completed his secondary school studies in Rozsnyó, Miskolc and Levcsa, and studied law at the University of Pest. He obtained a law degree in 1835. In 1836–1838 he worked as a royal notary, in 1838 he became a lawyer, and a year later he became a jurist. He was a law teacher for several distinguished families, and from April 1841 he worked as a legal lecturer and secretary in the manorial administration of Prince Eszterházy until 1848. At that time he was a teacher at the Bratislava Law Academy, and from May 1850 he became its director. In September 1854 he was appointed as a councilor of the Bratislava National High Court, later as a lay judge of the Úrbéri Court, and then as a member of the Bratislava Land Relief Committee, but he also retained his position as academic director. In May 1862 he was appointed as a professor of Austro-Hungarian law and civil legislation at the University of Pest. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him as a corresponding member in December 1865. ; ; His main works: ; Hungarian Old and New Court System and Judicial Procedure, 1851, ; Fundamentals of Austrian General Private Law, 1868, ; Court Organization and Litigation in Civil Cases under Public Law, 1877.