Alfred E. von Overbeck

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Alfred Eugène von Overbeck (born March 8, 1925 in Bern ; † April 7, 2016 in Saint-Prex , Canton of Valais ) was a Swiss legal scholar .

Live and act

Overbeck was the son of the Freiburg legal scholar Alfred von Overbeck and the grandson of Gustav Overbeck . From 1944 to 1948 he studied law at the universities of Zurich , Freiburg and Paris. In 1948 he received the license en droit from the University of Freiburg and in 1952 the brevet d'avocat , admission to the bar . After a study trip to the USA, his grandmother's homeland, he became secretary in the permanent office of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in 1956 .

In 1961 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. In 1962 he was a lecturer at the University of Zurich. In 1965 he became associate professor and in 1968, as successor to Max Gutzwiller, full professor for international private law at the University of Freiburg, from 1971 to 1975 he was its rector. In 1980 he was appointed by the Swiss Federal Council as the first director of the newly founded Swiss Institute for Comparative Law in Lausanne , which he headed from 1982 until his retirement in 1990.

He was a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , member of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences, honorary member of the Asociación española de profesores de derecho internacional y relaciones internacionales , the Institut de Droit international and the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.

Works

  • The unification of the règles de conflits de lois en matière de forme de testaments. Dissertation. 1961
  • Persons , in Kurt Lipstein (Ed.): International encyclopedia of comparative law. Volume 3: Private international law Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1972

literature

  • Walter A. Stoffel, Paul Volken (eds.): Conflits et harmonization = collision and unification = Conflicts and harmonization: mélanges en l'honneur d'Alfred E. von Overbeck à l'occasion de son 65ème anniversaire. Friborg: Ed. Univ. Friborg 1990, ISBN 2-8271-0472-5 (Festschrift, with list of publications)
  • Christiane Wendehorst : Alfred E. von Overbeck. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 2018, Volume 168, Vienna 2019, pp. 381–382.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries of Alfred E. von Overbeck , accessed on April 13, 2016
  2. ^ History of the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law ( Memento from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Alfred E. von Overbeck at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Overbeck, Alfred E. von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Overbeck, Alfred Eugène von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2016
Place of death Saint-Prex , Canton of Valais , Switzerland