Andreas von Tuhr

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Andreas von Tuhr

Andreas von Tuhr (born February 14, 1864 in Saint Petersburg , † December 16, 1925 in Zurich ) was a Russian-German lawyer who significantly influenced civil law .

life and work

Andreas von Tuhr (1864–1925) lawyer, rector, grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Tuhr's father was an Imperial Russian State Councilor and Senator. When the family later moved to Baden-Baden , v. Tuhr at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Universität Leipzig and the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . During this time he was influenced by the ideas of Bernhard Windscheid and Ernst Bekker . In Heidelberg he earned his doctorate in 1885 summa cum laude for Dr. iur. In 1888 he qualified as a professor for Roman law and civil law. In 1891 he took on a full professorship at the University of Basel . In 1898 he followed the call of the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . Until it was closed on December 2, 1918, he was its last rector .

The First World War brought great suffering from Tuhr. Despite all the hostility, he retained both German and Russian citizenship. During the war he lost several relatives and his family property in Russia. After the Armistice of Compiègne (1918) , like many German university professors, he was expelled from the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine by the Third French Republic . After an interlude at the Friedrichs University in Halle , he joined the University of Cologne in January 1920 as the first professor of Roman law and civil law ; it had been newly founded to replace the Strasbourg University. At the age of 56, he followed the call of the University of Zurich in 1920 .

Tuhr is considered one of the most important legal scholars of his time. His works have been translated into several languages ​​and have international significance. The Kyoto University has named its library of Civil Law after him.

Publications

  • The Emergency in Civil Law (1888)
  • To estimate the damage in the Lex Aquilia (1892)
  • Actio de in rem verso ; at the same time a contribution to the teaching of management (1895)
  • On the doctrine of abstract debt contracts according to the BGB (1903)
  • On the teaching of the instruction (1906)
  • The general part of German civil law (1910–1918)
  • General part of the Swiss Code of Obligations (1924–1925)
  • Jus und Johanna: love letters from a lawyer (1938, edited by JK von der Mühll-von Tuhr)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Habilitation thesis: Emergency in civil law
  2. ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)
  3. ^ Roman law in Cologne (accessed August 2012)
  4. ↑ Michael Stolleis : Lawyers. A Biographical Lexicon from Antiquity to the 20th Century (1995), p. 622.
  5. ↑ Filippo Ranieri : European Law of Obligations, p. 679. GoogleBooks
  6. ↑ George Gretton : Ownership and its Objects . Rabel's magazine 71 (2007), p. 802
  7. ↑ Tuhr Bunko (German Institute for Japanese Studies)

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personal data
SURNAME Tuhr, Andreas von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German civil lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1925
Place of death Zurich