WEBER, Gottfried, Doctor of Laws and Philosophy, composer, theorist and practical musician, was born in at Freiesheim near Mannheim, and studied and travelled until, in 1802 he settled in Mannheim as a lawyer and holder of a Government appointment. It was here that his namesake, Carl Maria von Weber, sought a refuge after his banishment from WÜrtemberg (1810), that, in the house of Gottfried's father an asylum was found for old Franz Anton until his death in