Christoph Link
Christoph Link (born June 13, 1933 in Dresden ) is a German legal scholar .
Link received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1963 , and in 1970 he also completed his habilitation there. He was a full professor at the Universities of Vienna , Salzburg , Göttingen and finally Erlangen-Nuremberg , where he the Department of State , administrative and canon law held. As an authorized representative, he represented one of the parties to the proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court on the LER instruction ; He also prepared a legal opinion in the process of obtaining corporate status by Jehovah's Witnesses .
His main research interests are constitutional law, state church and church law, constitutional history and the history of political ideas . Link is co-editor of the magazine for evangelical church law .
The Protestant theological faculties of Tübingen and Vienna awarded Christoph Link an honorary doctorate .
Link is also the doctoral supervisor of the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder.
Work (selection)
A list of publications on the left can be found in: Heinrich de Wall / Michael Germann (eds.): Civil freedom and Christian responsibility. Festschrift for Christoph Link on his seventieth birthday. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, pp. 1047-1061, ISBN 978-3-16-148099-7 .
- The foundations of the church constitution in the Lutheran confessionalism of the 19th century, especially in Theodosius Harnack , Munich 1966, also Diss., Univ. Munich, 1966.
- System of rule and civil liberty. Limits of State Power in the Older German State Doctrine , Vienna, Cologne, Graz 1979, also Habil.-Schrift, Univ. Munich. ISBN 3-205-07003-8
- Church legal history: Church, state and law in European history from the beginnings to the 21st century. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3406580918 (the only modern German-language representation of the Protestant and Roman Catholic church law history)
literature
- Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen : Christoph Link - life and work. In: Heinrich de Wall / Michael Germann (ed.): Civil liberty and Christian responsibility. Festschrift for Christoph Link on his seventieth birthday. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, pp. 3-17, ISBN 978-3-16-148099-7 .
- Heinrich de Wall: Christoph Link on his 80th birthday. In: Archives of Public Law 138 (2013), pp. 633–635.
swell
- ↑ BVerfGE 104, 305 - LER lessons
- ↑ The report is printed in: ZevKR 43 (1998), pp. 1 to 54 and is available online (PDF; 345 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Christoph Link in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page from Emeritus Prof. Dr. Christoph Link on the website of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Link, Christoph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |