Alois von Brinz

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Alois von Brinz

Alois Brinz , from 1872 Ritter von Brinz , (born February 26, 1820 in Weiler im Allgäu , † September 13, 1887 in Munich ) was a German legal scholar and politician .

Life

Alois Brinz's father of the same name was a doctor of law. The grandfather was a master baker in Weiler. Brinz studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Law and 1839 in the Corps Suevia Munich recipiert . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . After the exams he entered the administration of justice in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Encouraged by Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff in Berlin to study Roman law in detail , he also devoted himself to this area in his practical work. The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen appointed him in 1851 as associate professor . From 1854 he taught Roman law there as full professor .

In 1857 he continued the same teaching activity at the (as yet undivided) Charles University in Prague . At the Schiller Festival in 1859 he spoke after Václav Vladivoj Tomek . The speech in front of the Palais Waldstein testified its paramount importance for the German student body in Prague. On November 11, 1861 , the Reading and Speech Hall (Prague) repeated the Schiller-Kommers with the Deutschtumsführer . Hundreds of German students rubbed the first salamander on Friedrich Schiller and Alois Brinz. Elected to the Bohemian Landtag and the Reichsrat (Austria) , Brinz was a brilliant speaker and steadfast politician in both houses. In 1861 he declared in the Vienna Imperial Council:

"I am called to read Roman law in Prague, and I have created a second job for myself, defending old German law there."

- Alois von Brinz

Together with the other leaders of the German party Eduard Herbst and Leopold Hasner von Artha , he resolutely represented German interests. The victory over Bohemian separatism and the feudal aristocracy is attributed to his reporting on the so-called Feudal Redemption Act.

“During his entire teaching activity in Prague from 1857 to 1866, he was a leading representative of the Greater German Constitutional and Freedom Party. From the German-Bohemian districts he was elected to the state parliament in Prague and the Reichstag in Vienna, where he played a prominent role thanks to his brilliant speaking skills and his legal knowledge. His tireless and accurate fight against the utopia of Bohemian constitutional law, his zealous advocacy of the annexation of Austria to Germany and his opposition to the Utraquization of Prague University, which the Czechs were striving for, soon gave him the irreconcilable hatred of this part of the population of Bohemia. Respect, also towards his opponents, earned him his fearlessness and his determined demeanor. "

- Adolf Siegl

After the German war , the German students and university teachers in Prague were on a losing streak. In 1866, Brinz followed the call of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen to her chair. Prague's German student body said goodbye to him with deep thanks for his exemplary work. The Corps Frankonia Prague awarded him the ribbon as a loyal friend and advisor . In Tübingen he completed his pandect textbook . He did not accept a mandate for the Württemberg estates . For this he was elected a member of the State Court .

From 1871 Alois von Brinz taught Roman civil law at the University of Munich. For the academic years 1876/77 and 1882/83 he was elected rector of the university. Ludwig II (Bavaria) awarded him the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1872 . This raised him to the hereditary nobility.

The departure of Brinz was a heavy loss for the Germans of that time in Austria, especially in Bohemia. 20 years later, when v. Brinz visited the capital Vienna in the winter of 1886, he was greeted with jubilation. When he died at the age of 67, Philipp Knoll remembered his friend v. Christian in Prague's German House for the Karl Ferdinand University . Brinz.

tomb

Grave of Brinz and his wife location

The grave of Alois Brinz located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich (wall right place 153 in burial 6) Location . His wife Caroline nee also lies in the grave. Zenetti (December 1, 1825 - June 7, 1896).

family

  1. Ludwig Brinz, baker in Weiler, from a respected Tyrolean family, fought like his seven brothers for Austria against Napoleon, and was kidnapped as a hostage after the war.
    1. Alois Brinz (* in Weiler; † 1835) was a lawyer and later a record clerk at the regional court in Kempten, ⚭ Katharina Gsell (* 1793 in Weiler; † 1862), 10 children.
      1. Alois Ritter von Brinz (* 1820 in Weiler; † 1887 in Munich)
        ⚭ 1857 Caroline Zenetti (* 1825; † 1895), daughter of State Councilor and District President Johann Baptist Ritter von Zenetti ; 6 children (daughters Anna and Maria and four sons Johann, Eduard, Konrad and Arnold )

The brothers Bernhard Vogel and Hans-Jochen Vogel come from the family .

Works

Alois von Brinz wrote numerous articles on legal topics. The treatise The Doctrine of Compensation from the area of ​​Roman law brought him recognition among the Romanists. His main work, the Pandekten Textbook , has been widely referred to as the most original legal work of the 19th century.

  • About the theory of compensation . Leipzig 1849.
  • Critical sheets of civilian content , Erlangen 1852–1853.
  • On the rights of the Bonae fidei possessio. Munich 1875.
  • Textbook of the Pandects , 4 volumes (in 7 sub-volumes). 2nd edition Erlangen 1873–1895,

Honors

Memorial plaque in hamlet
DR. ALOIS OF BRINZ WAS BORN IN THIS HOUSE / ROYAL BAVARIAN COUNCIL / PROFESSOR OF ROMAN LAW TO ACHIEVE PRAGUE, TÜBINGEN AND MUNICH / KNIGHT OF MERIT ORDER OF THE BAVARIAN CROWNS / AND THE IMPERIAL OF THE KINGDOM OF THE KINGDOM OF THE KINGDOM OF THE AUSTRIA SCIENCE AND THE AUSTRIAN REICHSRATS / HONORARY DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY / DIED IN MUNICH 13 SEPTEMBER 1887

literature

Web links

Commons : Alois von Brinz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Alois von Brinz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brinz, Aloys von . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894-1896, Volume 3, p. 543.
  2. ↑ Birthday according to the personnel file of the Corps Suevia Munich
  3. ^ Digitized version of Alois Brinz senior's doctoral thesis .
  4. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 178/245.
  5. ↑ a b c Alois von Brinz . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 434.
  6. ^ Adolf Siegl: Univ.-Professor Dr. Alois von Brinz . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 29 (1984), p. 182.
  7. ^ A b Adolf Siegl: Univ.-Professor Dr. Alois von Brinz . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 29 (1984), p. 179.
  8. ↑ Adolf Siegl (corpsarchive.de)
  9. ^ A b Adolf Siegl: Univ.-Professor Dr. Alois von Brinz . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 29 (1984), p. 183.
  10. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  11. ^ Gerhard Wesenberg:  Brinz, Alois Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 617 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ Document for the lecture of the local researcher Hanns Heim, Weiler 1997.
  13. ↑ Čestní občané 1853–1939
personal data
SURNAME Brinz, Alois von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brinz, Aloys Ritter von; Brinz, Aloysius von; Brinz Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamlet in the Allgäu
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1887
Place of death Munich