Albert Schneider (legal scholar)

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Albert Schneider

Albert Schneider (born December 17, 1836 in Riesbach , † April 21, 1904 in Zurich ) was a Swiss legal scholar and Romance scholar . Schneider was Professor of Law at the University of Zurich and its Rector from 1890 to 1892 . He was a judge and colonel of the Military Court of Cassation and a member and president of the Zurich Cantonal Council .

Life

Family and education

Albert was the son of Rudolf Schneider (1811–1876). His father was a notary trainee and later a land clerk in Riesbach. His mother Dorothea (1811-1886) was born Kuffekam from Oberhausen near Kloten . Schneider attended the school in Riesbach and began studying theology in 1855, but changed the subject after the first semester and now studied law at the Zurich University and the University of Berlin . Heinrich Dernburg and Eduard Osenbrüggen were among his professors in Zurich . In Berlin he heard lectures by Friedrich Ludwig Keller , who had a great influence on him. He also advised him to continue his studies in London and Paris .

Professional background

1858 doctorate Schneider at the University of Zurich with the thesis About the concludente silence on the Roman rights to Dr. jur. In 1860 he passed the procurator's exam and a year later he completed his habilitation at the law faculty of Zurich University with a habilitation thesis on Roman inheritance law as a private lecturer .

At first he worked primarily as a lawyer and later, from 1866, as a judge at the higher court and from 1870 as a commercial judge at the commercial court in Zurich. In 1878, Schneider received a full professorship for Roman law at the University of Zurich as the successor to Max Conrat , which he held until his death. He gave lectures on Roman legal history, the Institutiones Iustiniani based on the Institutiones Gai , the Pandekten (components of the later so-called Corpus iuris civilis ), Zurich private and civil procedural law, construction law and military criminal law. From 1890 to 1892 he also took over the rectorate of the university. His rector's speech, Roman Law in the Present , was published that same year. With Aloys von Orelli he encouraged and supported the first Swiss law student, Emilie Kempin-Spyri, to obtain a doctorate in law in 1887 at the University of Zurich. He was the executor of Gottfried Keller's will .

He had been a member of the Zurich Cantonal Council for the Liberal Party since 1862, and he was given the presidency from 1890 onwards. From 1893 he was a member of the Grand City Council of Zurich and from 1896 President of the Zurich Church Synod . As a military man, Schneider was a colonel on the judicial staff, a member and, most recently, president of the Military Court of Cassation. For several years he was a member of the education council and the supervisory committee of the grammar school. From 1873 Schneider was a member of the commission of the Schweizerischen Idiotikon , 1893 as president, and from 1874 member of the music commission, whose presidency he took over in 1882. Volunteer who worked from 1869 to 1899 as a member of the commission and president of the house earnings association for Zurich and the surrounding area.

In the summer of 1902, Schneider fell seriously ill, so that his right arm had to be amputated. But he quickly managed to get used to being a left-hander. From summer 1903 he was able to hold lectures again. In the spring break of 1904 he went on a trip to Rome , from which he returned home as a seriously ill person at the beginning of the semester. He died on April 21, 1904, at the age of 67 in Zurich.

literature

Albert Schneider was the author of numerous specialist publications. His main work were two major commentaries on the Swiss Code of Obligations and the private law of the Canton of Zurich, which he published in 1882 and 1888. As a Romanist he wrote Roman personal names , which appeared in 1874, and in 1879 The Three Scaevola Ciceros . He was a co-author of the festival publications in honor of Bernhard Windscheid , Rudolf von Jhering and Heinrich Dernburg. As rector of the University of Zurich, Schneider wrote a commemorative publication on the Zurich canon and cantor Magister Felix Hemmerlin at the University of Bologna 1408−1412 and 1423−1424 in 1888 on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the University of Bologna .

He published numerous small works and essays, including in the journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . He made a great contribution to Romance studies when he reported periodically on current publications by Italian Romance studies in German magazines, namely in the Critical Quarterly for Legislation and Jurisprudence .

Publications (selection)

  • About the concludent silence according to Roman law. ( Dissertation ) Zurich 1858.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of Roman personal names. Zurich 1874.
  • The three Scaevola Cicero's. Munich 1879.
  • The Swiss Code of Obligations together with the provisions of the federal law relating to personal capacity to act. With general explanations. Zurich 1882.
  • The Zurich Canonicus and Cantor Magister Felix Hemmerli at the University of Bologna 1408−1412 and 1423−1424. ( Festschrift ) Zurich 1888.
  • Private law code for the Canton of Zurich. Based on Bluntschli's comment. Zurich 1888.
  • The Trial of C. Rabirius Concerning Unconstitutional Violence. (Festschrift) Zurich 1889.
  • On the history of the flute in antiquity. Zurich 1890.
  • The latest Roman excavations in Switzerland. Zurich 1898.
  • The calculation of time limits in Roman law. Zurich 1900.
  • The jurisdiction of the military courts in Switzerland. Basel 1901.
  • The Zurich inheritance law based on the Bluntschli comment. Zurich 1901.

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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss legal scholar and Romance studies
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesbach
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1904
Place of death Zurich