Albert Hermann Post
Albert Hermann Post (born October 20, 1839 in Bremen , † August 25, 1895 in Bremen) was a German lawyer and judge from Bremen .
biography
Post was the son of Court Secretary Chr. A. Post. After graduating from high school, he studied law . For a short time he was a lawyer . In 1866 he was appointed senior court secretary and in 1874 a judge in Bremen.
In 1864 he wrote a fundamental work on marital property and inheritance law. Religious works followed. From 1866 to 1887, four volumes were published as a draft of a common German and Hanseatic City-Bremen private law based on modern economics as well as works on ethnological legal history . Post is considered a pioneer in legal ethnology . With Josef Kohler he introduced this research discipline in Germany. He was the first author to deal with the legal relationships in non-written traditional law in Africa .
Works
- The origin of the law. Prolegomena to a General Comparative Law . Berndt & Schwarzer, Oldenburg 1876; new reprint: at Elibron Classics, 2006, ISBN 978-1110253913 .
- The basics of law and the main features of its development history: guiding principles for the construction of a general jurisprudence on a sociological basis . A. Schwarz, Oldenburg 1884; new reprint: at Elibron Classics, 2005, ISBN 978-1421249872 .
- Outline of the ethnological jurisprudence . Volume 1 and 2. Scientia Verlag; Reprint, Aalen.
- Introduction to the study of ethnological jurisprudence . Schwartz, Oldenburg 1886; new reprint: Göttingen 1989.
- Studies on the history of the development of family law . Schulze, Oldenburg u. Leipzig 1889, reprint: Keip, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
- Bremen life: satirical poems Bremen: Tannen 1872
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Andrew Lyall, Early German Legal Anthropology: Albert Hermann Post and His Questionnaire . In: Journal of African Law , 2008, No. 52, pp. 114-138.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rüdiger Schott , Interdisciplinary Research in the Field of Legal Ethnology , Africa Spectrum, Volume 4, No. 2, Interdisciplinary Africa Research (1969), pp. 5 ff.
- ↑ online at the SuUB Bremen: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46:1-755
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Post, Albert Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, Bremen judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1895 |
| Place of death | Bremen |