Albert Koeppen

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Karl Christian Friedrich Albert Koeppen (born December 17, 1822 in Goldberg ; † May 12, 1898 in Lichtenthal ) was a German legal scholar and legal historian . Koeppen was professor of rights at the universities in Jena , Marburg , Würzburg and Strasbourg .

Life

Koeppen attended high schools in Lübeck , Wismar and Schwerin . From 1842 he studied law at the University of Berlin and, after successfully completing his degree, was accepted into the Prussian judicial service in spring 1847. But as early as 1849 he asked for his departure in order to be able to devote himself entirely to his academic career.

In May 1850 he did his doctorate at the Berlin University with the dissertation De natura hereditatis nondum aditae to the doctorate in both rights . In October 1853 habilitated to Koeppen with the habilitation De vi, quam retro exerceat aditio hereditatis commentatio as a lecturer for Roman Law at the University of Jena. In 1856 he received an extraordinary professorship in law there. In the same year he published his work The Inheritance. A civilist treatise . Just one year later, in October 1857, he accepted the call as a full professor at the law faculty of the University of Marburg. He gave lectures on institutions, pandects , Roman inheritance law and family law . In 1859 Koeppen was appointed dean of the law faculty at Marburg University.

In April 1864 Koeppen was dismissed as a professor from the Hessian state service, but in June of the same year he was appointed full professor of Roman civil law at the University of Würzburg. In 1864 his writing System des today's Roman inheritance law and in 1870 the monograph The obligatory contract among absentees appeared . In 1872 Koeppen was the author of the commemorative publication Der Fruchterwerb des bonae fidei possessor. On the teaching of the pending legal situation for the important legal scientist Karl Georg von Wächter on the occasion of his 50th anniversary as a doctor.

In March 1872, his departure from the Würzburg University was approved, so that Koeppen was able to move to the newly founded university in Strasbourg on April 1, 1872 as a full professor of law . Here he worked for more than twenty years. During his time in Strasbourg, he published his main textbook on today's Roman inheritance law , which was published in several deliveries from 1886 to 1895. For health reasons he had to stop teaching and was retired on April 1, 1895 . He died on May 12, 1898 at the age of 75 in Lichtental near Baden-Baden .

Publications

  • De natura hereditatis nondum aditae. ( Dissertation ), Berlin 1850.
  • De vi, quam retro exerceat aditio hereditatis commentatio. ( Habilitation thesis ), Jena 1853. ( digitized )
  • The inheritance. A civilist treatise. Berlin 1856. ( digitized )
  • The system of today's Roman inheritance law. Jena 1862. ( digitized )
  • The mandatory contract among absentees. Jena 1870.
  • The fruit acquisition of the bonae fidei possessor. On the doctrine of the pending legal relationships. ( Festschrift ), Jena 1872. ( digitized )
  • Floor plan for lectures on the institutions and history of Roman private law. Strasbourg 1879.
  • Textbook of today's Roman inheritance law. Würzburg 1886 to 1895.

literature

  • Johannes Günther: Karl Friedrich Albert Koeppen. In: Life sketches of the professors of the University of Jena from 1558 to 1858. Page 110, Friedrich Mauke, Jena 1858. ( digitized version ).
  • Richard Kukula: Koeppen Albert. In: General German University Almanac. Page 448, Toeplitz & Deuticke, Vienna 1888. ( digitized version ).
  • Albert Teichmann : Koeppen, Karl Friedrich Albert. In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 3, page 123, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1900 ( digitized version ).
  • Supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung , ( obituary ), year 1898, number 109 from May 16, 1898, page 8, ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Koeppen, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koeppen, Karl Christian Friedrich Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldberg
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1898
Place of death Lichtenthal