Christoph Heinrich Brecht

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Christoph Heinrich Brecht (born July 18, 1911 in Posen , † May 27, 1965 in Neuendettelsau ) was a German legal historian .

Life

Christoph Heinrich Brecht was the son of the first marriage of Germanist Walther Brecht (1876–1950) to Adelheid von Koenen (1874–1911), daughter of the Göttingen geologist Adolf von Koenen , who died shortly after his birth. In 1913 the father married Erika Leo (1887–1949), the daughter of the Göttingen Latinist Friedrich Leo . After stints at the universities of Göttingen, Posen, Vienna and Breslau, Walther Brecht was appointed professor for modern German literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1927 .

In Munich, Christoph Heinrich Brecht entered the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium in the 1927/28 school year and passed the Abitur examination there in 1929. He then studied law at the University of Vienna and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he was influenced in particular by Leopold Wenger , Walter Otto and Mariano San Nicolò . They referred Brecht to Wilhelm Kroll , the editor of the Realencyclopadie der Altertumswirtschaft , who commissioned him in the spring of 1936 to write an article on the perduellio criminal offense . For this article, he developed his thesis perduellio with which he 1937 doctorate was (published 1938).

Brecht's habilitation followed in 1941 . His habilitation thesis on the liability of boatmen in ancient law could not be printed due to the circumstances of the war. Shortly after its completion, Brecht lost the opportunity for further scientific work due to a severe organic nerve problem.

In the short time from his doctorate to the outbreak of nervous disease, Brecht also published a study on the Roman Comitia and a few articles for the Realencyclopedia of Classical Antiquity . In autumn 1960 he sent the manuscript of his habilitation thesis to the Leopold Wenger Institute at the University of Munich. It was published in the spring of 1962 on the initiative of Wolfgang Kunkel and Hermann Bengtson in the series Munich Contributions to Papyrus Research and Ancient Legal History .

Fonts (selection)

  • Perduellio. A study of its conceptual delimitation in Roman criminal law up to the end of the republic (= Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history. H. 29). Beck, Munich 1938, (at the same time: Munich, university, dissertation, 1937).
  • On the liability of boatmen in ancient law (= Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history. H. 45). Beck, Munich 1962, (at the same time: Munich, university, habilitation paper, 1941).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from the Neuendettelsau community, residents' registration office from July 16, 2015.
  2. ^ Paul Arthur Loos: Brecht, Walther. In: New German Biography (NDB). [1955]
  3. ↑ 1921/22 to 1924/25 visited Christoph Heinrich - as u. a. also Raimund von Hoffmannsthal (1906–1974) - the high school in Hietzing
  4. ↑ Christoph König, David Oels (ed.): Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Walther Brecht correspondence. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-976-7 , p. 13.
  5. ↑ Because of the Jewish origin of his second wife, Walther Brecht was forced into retirement from the University of Munich on July 1, 1937 under the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”. On August 1, 1946, he was reinstated in his office "for reparation" and at the same time retired
  6. ↑ Walther Brecht - Austrian Academy of Sciences, in: www.oeaw.ac.at/online-gedenkbuch/gedenkbuch/haben/ah/walther-brecht
  7. ^ Annual report on the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1928/29
personal data
SURNAME Brecht, Christoph Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1965
Place of death Neuendettelsau