Adolf Frantz

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Adolf Theodor Frantz (born October 14, 1851 in Ringleben , † June 19, 1908 in Kiel ) was a German legal scholar and canon lawyer . Frantz was professor of law at the universities in Marburg and Kiel .

Life

Frantz first attended school in Rudolstadt and later the Latina in Halle (Saale) . After passing his Abitur exam very well, he began studying law at the universities in Halle and Heidelberg . In 1875, Frantz passed the legal clerkship examination and became an appellate trainee in Halle. In January 1876 he received his doctorate from the University of Halle with the dissertation The Protestant Church Constitution in the German Cities of the 16th Century for Dr. jur.

With the publication of his dissertation in the second expanded edition , he completed his habilitation in January 1878 at the law faculty of the University of Marburg as a private lecturer for church and criminal law. In 1880 his book The Catholic Directory of the Corpus Evangelicorum appeared. According to handwritten sources , 1883 The powers of patronage in relation to the parish council according to §6 of the parish and synodial order of September 10, 1873 and 1885 the electoral rights of the clergy in the church elections . As early as October 1881, he received an extraordinary professorship for church and criminal law as well as criminal procedure and international law at the University of Marburg. In 1887 his textbook on canon law , on which he worked for a long time, was published in the first edition. It was primarily intended for the study of students and was published for the third time in 1899.

At the beginning of April 1889, Frantz was transferred to Kiel . On April 2, 1894, he became a full professor for German law and church law at Kiel University. But he also gave lectures on constitutional, international, marriage and administrative law. In 1892 he was co-author of a commemorative publication for the lawyer Rudolf von Jhering with the contribution Das Projekt einer Reichs-Concordat and the Vienna Conferences of 1804 and in 1907 as a commemorative publication for Albert Hänel with the continuation The Project of a Reich Concordat after the Vienna Conferences from 1804-1806 . He published smaller works, essays and reviews in the German Journal for Church Law and the Central Gazette for Legal Studies. He wrote over 100 articles for the theological literary newspaper.

In his spare time he grew flowers and was a passionate numismatist . He owned an extensive and valuable coin collection . Since 1882 he was married to Elisabeth Charlotte Stephan, the daughter of a government councilor from Berlin . They had two sons. Adolf Frantz fell ill with a stomach ailment from which he died on June 19, 1908, at the age of 56 in Kiel. Since he had always refused medical help, the exact cause of death could not be determined.

Publications (selection)

  • The Protestant church constitution in the German cities of the XVI. Century. 1st edition ( dissertation ), Halle 1876.
  • The Protestant church constitution in the German cities of the 16th century. 2nd edition ( habilitation thesis ), Leipzig 1878.
  • The Catholic Directory of the Corpus Evangelicorum. Represented from handwritten sources. Marburg 1880.
  • The patronage powers in relation to the parish church council according to § 6 of the parish and synodal order of September 10, 1873. Marburg 1883.
  • The right to vote of the clergy in church elections. Marburg 1885.
  • Textbook of Canon Law. Goettingen 1887.
  • The literature of canon law, 1884 to 1894. Leipzig 1896.

literature

  • Franz Gundlach (arrangement): Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University in Marburg. No. 246, Elwert, Marburg 1927.
  • Albert Teichmann : Frantz, Adolph Theodor. In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 14, pages 392-393, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1912, ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Frantz, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frantz, Adolf Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Ring life
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1908
Place of death Kiel