Burkard Wilhelm Leist

Burkard Wilhelm Leist

Burkard Wilhelm Leist (* July 12, 1819 in West / Aller ; † December 31, 1906 in Jena ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Burkard Wilhelm Leist was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Leist (1781–1820) and Henriette Leist, geb. Koering (1791–1874). He grew up in Braunschweig and from 1837 studied law in Göttingen , Heidelberg and Berlin . He was most influenced by the legal historians Gustav von Hugo (Göttingen) and Friedrich Carl von Savigny (Berlin). On May 17, 1841, Leist was promoted to Dr. jur. doctorate and habilitation in autumn 1842. In 1846 he was appointed full professor in the law faculty at the University of Basel . In the same year he married Julie Müller (1826–1907), the daughter of the Göttingen philologist and archaeologist Karl Otfried Müller (1797–1840) and Pauline Müller, born. Hugo (1804-1847). On October 28, 1847, Leist moved to the University of Rostock . In 1853 he went to the University of Jena as a full professor , where he worked from then on. In 1861 and 1868 he served as the rector of the university .

Burkard Wilhelm Leist was considered an excellent teacher of Roman law and a supporter of the historical school of Hugo and Savigny. He wrote fundamental studies on Roman and Indo-European law. He has received numerous awards for his work. He was appointed a Privy Councilor and a Knight of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order and the House Order of the White Falcon, First Class.

His son was the legal scholar Gerhard Alexander Leist (1862–1918).

Fonts (selection)

• Historia bonorum possessionis secundum tabulas . Göttingen 1841 (dissertation)
• The Bonorum possessio. Your historical development and today's validity . Two volumes, Göttingen 1844–1848
• On the development of a positive common law in civilized mankind . Basel 1846 (inaugural address)
• Attempt a history of the Roman legal systems . Rostock / Schwerin 1850
• Civilistic Studies in the Field of Dogmatic Analysis . Four volumes, Jena 1854–1877
• About the nature of property . Jena 1859
• Naturalis ratio and nature of the thing . Jena 1860
• Mancipation and tradition of ownership . Jena 1865
• The praetoric inheritance system in classical, post-classical and present-day law . Erlangen 1873
• mit Glück, Mühlenbruch and Eduard Fein : Detailed explanation of the Pandects after Hellfeld . Five volumes, Erlangen 1870–1879 (in it: The Roman right of inheritance; The Roman right of patronage )
• On the history of the Roman societas . Jena 1881. Reprint Osnabrück 1970
• Graeco-Italian legal history . Jena 1884. Reprinted in Aalen 1964
• Old Aryan ius gentium . Jena 1889. Reprint Innsbruck 1978
• Old Aryan ius civile . Two volumes, Jena 1892–1896

literature

• Festive offering for Burkard Wilhelm Leist on the 50th anniversary of the Doctorate on May 17, 1891 by the Law Faculty of the University of Jena . Jena 1891. Reprinted in Frankfurt am Main 1987
• Ernst Immanuel Bekker : Burkard Wilhelm Leist among his equals . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Department . Volume 28 (1907), pp. 129-157
• Biographical yearbook and German necrology . 12th Volume (1907), 1909, pp. 229-231
• Eyk Ueberschär: The development of the civil legal person and the Pandektenlehre of Burkard Wilhelm Leist . Jena 1993 (dissertation)
• Eyk Ueberschär: Burkhard Wilhelm Leist (1819–1906). From historical law school to German legal sociology . In: Legal scholars of the University of Jena from four centuries . Jena 2012, pp. 145–170

Web links

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Wikisource: Burkard Wilhelm Leist  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Burkard Wilhelm Leist in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Burkard Wilhelm Leist in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium