Andreas Thier

Andreas Thier (born January 31, 1963 in Essen ) is a German legal historian and professor at the University of Zurich .

Life

Thier studied law ( state exams 1989, 1994) and history ( MA 1990 with Thomas Nipperdey ) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . It was in 1998 when Peter Landau with an excellent dissertation on Dr. jur. PhD and habilitation in 2001.

In 2002/03 he represented the chair for civil law and German legal history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 2003 he was appointed C4 professor. He also headed the Institute for Legal History there . Since 2004 he has been full professor of legal history, canon law , legal theory and private law at the University of Zurich , where he is head of the Center for Research on Legal History (ZrF) and a member of the Zurich Medieval Studies Competence Center . In 2005 he became a member of the governing body of the National Competence Center in Research (NCCR). From 2006 to 2010 he was also a member of the Zurich Competence Center Hermeneutics (ZKH). In 2008 he was Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School . He declined calls for professorships in legal history at the universities of Munich (2008) and Frankfurt am Main (2011).

He is a member of the Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio , the Prussian Historical Commission , the Association for Constitutional History , the Civil Law Teachers' Association , the Working Group on the History of Prussia and the American Society for Legal History . He is also co-editor of the electronic journal for legal history Forum historiae iuris and the journal of the Savigny Foundation for legal history . Comments were made, among other things, in the historical-critical commentary on the BGB , and he contributed to the concise dictionary on German legal history and the New German Biography .

Thier is a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation.

Awards

• 1998: Prize of the Wallburga Riedel Foundation for dissertation
• 1999: Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for dissertation
• 2007: Outstanding Teacher Award , Executive Master of European and International Business Law, University of St. Gallen

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Tax legislation and the constitution in the constitutional monarchy. State tax reforms in Prussia 1871–1893 (= studies on European legal history . Volume 119). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-465-02789-2 . (also dissertation, LMU Munich, 1998)
• Hierarchy and autonomy. Regulatory traditions of the appointment of bishops in the history of ecclesiastical electoral law until 1140 (= studies on European legal history . Volume 257). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-465-04113-9 . (Also habilitation thesis, LMU Munich, 2001)

Editing

• with Guido Pfeifer , Philipp Grzimek: Continuities and caesuras in European legal history (= legal history series . Volume 196). Lang, Frankfurt am Main among others 1999, ISBN 3-631-34882-7 .
• with Heiner Lück , Michele Luminati , Marcel Senn : Thesaurus historiae iuris. Clausdieter Schott on his 75th birthday . PJV, Halle / Saale 2011, ISBN 978-3-941226-22-7 .

Web links

• Search for "Andreas Thier" OR "Thier, Andreas", "Andreas Thier" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Publications by Andreas Thier in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
• Vita of Andreas Thier at the University of Zurich