Carl Christoph Burckhardt

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Carl Christoph Burckhardt (born December 5, 1862 in Basel , † February 19, 1915 in Birsfelden ) was a Swiss lawyer and politician.

Life

Carl Christoph Burckhardt, son of the government councilor Carl Burckhardt, studied law in Basel, Göttingen and Berlin from 1881 to 1885 , where he worked as the second secretary at the Swiss legation from 1885 to 1886. In 1888 he completed his habilitation at the University of Basel and was elected civil judge in 1889. From 1890 to 1898 he was president of the civil court, from 1901 to 1904 he worked as an appellate judge.

In parallel to his work as a judge, Burckhardt taught at the university in his hometown. From 1891 to 1898 he held an extraordinary and then from 1898 to 1906 a full professorship for Roman law and civil law, and in 1904 he was also rectorate.

Burckhardt also began a political career relatively late. He sat from 1902 to 1906 as a representative of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Grand Council. Subsequently, from 1906 to 1915, he was a member of the government and, as head of the Justice Department, was responsible for the church law passed in 1910, which separated church and state. For this he was of the Theological Faculty of the University of Basel Dr. appointed hc . After the parliamentary elections in 1911 , Burckhardt was a member of the National Council until his death .

The well-known historian and diplomat Carl Jacob Burckhardt was his son.

Works (selection)

  • Meaning and scope of the equality of dolus and lata culpa in Roman law, Göttingen 1885
  • Modern changes in the relationship between state and church in Switzerland,, in: Politisches Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft 24 (1910). Pp. 61-187
  • The position of women in family law: New Swiss civil code. Common presentation , new ed. from the Association of German-Swiss. Women's associations to raise morality, Basel: Basler Druck- & Verlagsanstalt, [1912] (published again in 1937)
  • Writings and lectures, with a preface by W. Bircher and a biographical introduction by Carl J. Burckhardt, Basel 1917

literature

  • Johannes Georg Fuchs : Carl Christoph Burckhardt-Schazmann, in: Committed to the Reformation. Gestalten und Gestalter in Stadt und Landschaft Basel from five centuries, Basel 1979, pp. 141–145.

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personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, Carl Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burckhardt-Schazmann, Carl Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1915
Place of death Birsfelden