Bernhard Eccher

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Bernhard Eccher (* 13. June 1948 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian legal scholar and emeritus professors .

life and career

Bernhard Eccher was born on June 13, 1948 in Innsbruck and studied law from 1967 at the University of Innsbruck and at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1971 . The habilitation in civil law with the subject of anticipated succession took place in 1979; a year later he obtained the venia docendi "civil law". Between 1978 and 1980 he also studied at the renowned University of Padua in the north-eastern Italian city ​​of Padua in the Veneto region . After he was associate professor (associate professor) for civil law from 1983 to 1989 , he was appointed full professor (ouniv professor) for Italian law and comparative law at the University of Innsbruck in 1989. For this purpose, an integrated diploma course in Italian law was set up together with the partner university in Padua. Afterwards, Eccher acted as director of the Institute for Civil Law from 1994 to 2005 and from 2006 was head of the newly established Institute for Italian Law at the University of Innsbruck. Before that, he had taught Italian law at various other institutes and worked with colleagues from Padua and South Tyrol. In addition, he was dean of the Faculty of Law from 2010 to 2015 .

In the area of ​​Austrian civil law, his main areas of expertise were inheritance law , consumer protection and property law . In Austrian inheritance law , Eccer is an expert and as such was appointed a member of the Federal Ministry of Justice's expert commission for the reform of inheritance law in 2014. In addition to his work and teaching in Italian private law, he also played a key role in the development of Italian-German legal terminology in the field of private law. Especially with the translations of the Italian Civil Code and the Italian Code of Civil Procedure. He worked as a lecturer and visiting professor at various universities in Germany and abroad; especially at the universities of Padua and Ferrera . He was also a member of the German-Italian Lawyers Association , the Associazione dei Civilisti Italiani and the Association of Civil Law Teachers . Eccher was also a pioneer in the study of Italian law in Austria, which arose primarily from South Tyrol's need for bilingual training. In addition to helping to shape it, he was a long-term study representative for this course. Until his retirement he was also the representative of the University of Innsbruck for cooperation with the partner university of Padua.

Eccher was honored several times during his life. His most significant honors include the Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria , which he received on December 9, 2015 “for his outstanding scientific work and his meritorious work at the University of Innsbruck”. Almost a month earlier, on November 11, 2015, Eccher was awarded the Honorary Badge for Scientific Services to the Austrian Notary's Office. In January 2017 he was presented with a commemorative publication in his honor .

At the end of September 2016, Eccher retired, where he still works at the University of Innsbruck and continues to work in the field of Italian law. Furthermore, he is active in the commission for honors of the university and at the law faculty in the creation of the new mission statement of the University of Innsbruck. For years he has also appeared as an external consultant for various law firms. In the course of his career he published various specialist books and Italian-German translations.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Eccher: The Austrian reform of inheritance law , accessed on February 2, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Honors for Bernhard Eccher , accessed on February 2, 2018
  3. ↑ Festschrift for Bernhard Eccher , accessed on February 2, 2018
  4. ↑ o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eccher: A word of farewell , accessed on February 2, 2018
  5. ↑ External consultants on the official website of Czernich Rechtsanwälte , accessed on February 2, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Eccher, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria