Adolf Exner

Adolf Exner

Adolf Exner and his sister Marie von Frisch (née Exner), 1893/94?

Adolf Exner (born February 5, 1841 in Prague , † September 10, 1894 in Kufstein (Tyrol)) was an Austrian lawyer and law professor.

biography

Adolf was the eldest son of Franz Serafin Exner and Charlotte Dusensy. He had three brothers named Karl Exner , Sigmund Exner and Franz-Serafin Exner and the sister Marie von Frisch . After graduating from high school at the Theresianum in Vienna , he studied law in Vienna and completed a further training scholarship (1863–64) in Leipzig , Heidelberg and Berlin . After returning to Vienna, he qualified as a professor in Roman law in 1866 and was appointed full professor at the University of Zurich in 1868 at the age of 27 . During his time in Zurich (1869) he and his sister Marie Frisch became friends with the poet Gottfried Keller , who visited him in Salzkammergut and Vienna, and with the archaeologist Otto Benndorf . In 1871/72 he received a call to Innsbruck , Würzburg and Kiel , which he declined in favor of the call to Vienna in 1872 as the successor to Rudolf von Ihering . In 1878 he married the banker's daughter Constanze Grohmann (1858–1922), with whom he had three children: Nora, Franz Exner and Gertrud Exner. In 1891/92 he was rector of the university. He was a teacher at the Crown Prince's court and a lifelong member of the manor house (1892) and the Imperial Court (1894). In addition to annual stays in Italy , he traveled to England , France , Holland , Greece , Asia Minor and Egypt .

Adolf Exner died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1894 . In the year of his death, he was about to be appointed Minister of Justice. A memorial plaque in Vienna (Josefstädter Straße 17) reminds that Gottfried Keller was staying in Vienna in 1874 as a guest of Adolf Exner. Keller himself described the time he spent in Vienna as the happiest days of his life.

His honorary grave is in the Dornbacher Friedhof in Vienna (group 9, number 32 A).

Fonts

The Austrian Mortgage Law , Leipzig 1881 (double title page)

• The doctrine of the acquisition of rights through tradition according to Austrian and common law, 1867
• Critique of the concept of lien under Roman law, Leipzig 1873
• The Austrian Mortgage Law, 2 volumes, 1876/81
• The concept of force majeure (vis major) in Roman and today's traffic law, Vienna: Hölder 1883
• On political education (Rector's speech), 1891

literature

• Exner Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 274.
• Ivo Pfaff :  Exner, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 456-459.
• Irmgard Smidt (ed.): From Gottfried Keller's happy time. The poet in correspondence with Marie and Adolf Exner. Foreword by Karl von Frisch, Theodor Gut Verlag, Zurich 1981 (1988), DNB . ISBN 3-85717-004-2
• Eduard Kranner : Gottfried Keller and the Exner siblings. Keller's friendship with the illustrious Viennese law teacher and his cheerful sister. Schwabe, Basel 1960 DNB
• Deborah R. Coen: Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism and Private Life , University of Chicago 2007, ISBN 0-226-11172-5

Web links

Commons : Adolf Exner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Adolf Exner in the catalog of the German National Library
• The concept of force majeure (vis major) in Roman and today's traffic law . in the digital library of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
• Correspondence with Gottfried Keller
• Overview of Adolf Exner's courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1869 to winter semester 1872)