Álvaro d'Ors

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Álvaro d'Ors (born April 14, 1915 in Barcelona , † January 31, 2004 in Pamplona ) was a Spanish legal scholar and classical philologist . He was a specialist in Roman law and one of the leading legal historians in Spain.

life and work

Álvaro d'Ors, the son of the philosopher and art critic Eugeni d'Ors and the sculptor Maria Pérez-Peix , grew up in Barcelona and from 1920 in Madrid, where he attended the Instituto Escuela, an open, non-church school. He then studied law and classical philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He wrote doctoral theses in both subjects, a philological one on the comedy poet Lucius Afranius and a legal one on the Constitutio Antoniniana (1941). With this he advanced into the papyrological studies of Roman law. At the suggestion of the lawyer José de Castillejo , he specialized in Roman law. However, he also pursued philological studies and wrote translations of Latin legal sources and literary monuments.

As early as 1943, d'Ors received a chair in Roman law at the University of Granada . In the summer of 1945 he moved to the University of Santiago de Compostela , where he worked for 16 years. He founded the collaboration between this university and the University of Coimbra . In 1949 he joined Opus Dei . From 1953 he acted as secretary of the Istituto Giuridico Spagnolo in Roma, which enables qualified law students to study and research.

In 1961, d'Ors went to the newly founded University of Navarra in Pamplona, ​​where he taught Roman law in the Faculty of Law as well as lecturing and teaching in the Faculty of Canon Law. He also built up the university's legal history library and accompanied the training of librarians. For this purpose he also wrote a three-volume textbook. In 1985 he retired, but remained active in teaching and research, initially as an emeritus and from 1993 as an honorary professor .

Services

Álvaro d'Ors is considered the most important Spanish legal historian of his time. He has received numerous awards at home and abroad for his diverse work. For his book De la guerra y de la paz (1954) he received the National Prize for Literature in the same year. In 1972 he received the National Research Award, in 1974 the cross as an honored lecturer "Alfonso el Sabio". The Universities of Toulouse , Coimbra and Rome- La Sapienza awarded him honorary doctorates (1972, 1983 and 1996). The University of Navarra awarded him its gold medal in 1990. In 1996 he was awarded the Basque Study Society's Prize for Human and Social Sciences. In 1998 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of San Raimundo de Penafort , and in 1999 the Prince of Viana Prize for Culture. He was also a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and a corresponding member of the Sociedad de Estudios Romanos , the Real Academia Gallega , the Académie de Législation de Toulouse , the Portuguese Academy of History and the Istituto Lombardo in Milan.

Álvaro d'Ors wrote scientific monographs and essays, handbooks, textbooks and pamphlets on Roman private and public law. He also dealt with legal sources from Egypt and from the Gothic period in Spain, with legal epigraphy and papyrology . His scientific work is also reflected in the extensive correspondence with constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt , which was printed in 2004. As a connoisseur of Roman literature, d'Ors also wrote translations of the writings of Gaius , Ciceros , Pliny the Younger and the digests of Justinian.

Fonts (selection)

• Constitutio Antoniniana (P. Giss. 40,1): Contribución al estudio de su valor y significado para la historia del Derecho Romano . Madrid 1941 (dissertation)
• Presupuestos criticos para el estudio del Derecho Romano . Salamanca 1943
• El esclavo prestado con una flauta y otros casos de Derecho Romano para principiantes . Santiago de Compostela 1945
• Introducción al estudio de los documentos del Egipto romano . Madrid 1948
• Epigrafia jurídica de la España romana . Madrid 1953
• De la guerra y de la paz . Madrid 1954
• El Código de Eurico: Edición, Palingenesia, Indices . Rome / Madrid 1960
• Derecho Privado Romano . Pamplona 1968. Ninth edition, Pamplona 1997
• Papeles del oficio universitario . Pamplona 1968
• Sistema de la Ciencias . Four volumes, Pamplona 1969–1977
• Escritos varios sobre el derecho en crisis . Rome / Madrid 1973
• Ensayos de teoría politica . Pamplona 1979
• La violencia y el order . Madrid 1987
• La posesión del espacio . Madrid 1998
• Nueva introducción al estudio del Derecho . Madrid 1999
• Derecho y sentido común: Siete lecciones de Derecho natural como limite del derecho positivo . Third edition Madrid 2001
• Bien común y enemigo público . Madrid 2002

Translations

• Cicerón / Defensa del poeta Arquias. Introducción, traducción y notas . Madrid 1940
• Gayo / Instituciones. Traducción y notas . Madrid 1943
• Plinio el Joven / Panegyrico de Trajano. Edición bilingüe . Madrid 1955
• Cicerón / Las leyes. Introducción, traducción y notas . Madrid 1953. Reprinted Madrid 1970
• with Hernández-Tejero, Fuenteseca, Garcia y Burillo: El Digesto de Justiniano. Versión castellana . Three volumes, Pamplona 1968–1975
• Cicerón / Sobre la República. Introducción, traducción, apéndice y notas . Madrid 1984
• with Xavier d'Ors: Lex Irnitana. Texto biblingüe . Santiago de Compostela 1988

in German language

• "Common good and public enemy", translators: Dominika Geyder, Wolfgang Hariolf Spindler, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-85418-166-8 .

literature

• Estudios de Derecho Romano en honor de Álvaro d'Ors . Two volumes, Pamplona 1987 (with list of publications)
• Álvaro D'Ors in memoriam . Pamplona 2004
• Teresa Giménez Candela: In memoriam Álvaro d'Ors (April 14, 1915– January 31, 2004) . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Department . Vol. 122 (2005), pp. 448-459
• Montserrat Herrero (eds.): Carl Schmitt and Álvaro d'Ors. Correspondence . Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-428-11279-2

Web links

• Literature on Álvaro d'Ors in the catalog of the German National Library