Alfred Boretius

Alfred Edwin Boretius (born February 27, 1836 in Meseritz , Province of Posen ; † August 1, 1900 in the Carlsfeld Sanatorium , Province of Saxony) was a German legal scholar , historian and member of the German Reichstag (1878-1881).

Alfred Boretius studied law in Berlin and Halle. By John Merkel and Alfred Pernice he was on the German legal history be directed. In 1858 he received his doctorate on the character of the feud for Dr. jur. ( De jure bellorum privatorum ex legibus imperii Romano-Germanici ). From 1860 to 1868 he worked for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . In 1864 he completed his habilitation in Berlin with a thesis on the capitularies in the Longobard Empire for German legal history and German private law . In 1868 he became a full professor for German and public law at the University of Zurich . In 1871 Boretius became a full honorary professor in Berlin. From 1871 to 1873 he worked for the National newspaper . At the end of 1874 he accepted the call to Halle for the chair of German and public law. Boretius was also politically active. In 1875, 1879 and 1885 he was a member of the Prussian General Synod . In the city council he belonged to the national liberal faction. In 1878 he succeeded in being elected to the Reichstag as a national liberal representative for Halle. However, in 1881 he lost the election. In 1885 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . Depression and a brain disease led to the retirement in 1890.

The focus of his research lay in the development of the capitularies, the norms issued by Charlemagne and his successors.

Fonts

De iure bellorum provatorum ex legibus imperii Romano-Germanici. Hall 1858.
Frederick the Great in his writings. Lecture given in the Rathhaussaale in Zurich on January 13, 1870. Berlin 1870.

literature

Rudolf Buchner : Boretius, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 462 ( digitized version ).
Alfred Boretius. A picture of life in letters 1849–1874. Apprenticeship and wandering years . Edited by Agathe Boretius. Schneider, Berlin 1900.
Alfred Boretius . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd revised and expanded edition, Volume 1, Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-25031-2 , pp. 835f.

Web links

Literature by and about Alfred Boretius in the catalog of the German National Library
Alfred Boretius in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Alfred Boretius . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Entry on Alfred Boretius in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Employee at Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) Munich
Detailed curriculum vitae ( memento from March 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
Overview of Alfred Boretius' courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1868 to winter semester 1870)

personal data
SURNAME	Boretius, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boretius, Alfred Edwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian, politician (NLP) and MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meseritz , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1900
Place of death	Carlsfeld , Province of Saxony