David of Mayenburg

David Heinsius von Mayenburg (born December 9, 1968 in Munich ) is a German legal scholar . He teaches as a professor of modern legal history , the history of canon law and civil law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Von Mayenburg studied modern and contemporary history, social and economic history, and public law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at St Antony's College ( University of Oxford ) from 1988–1995 . In the autumn of 1996 his master's thesis was published under the title “School, Vocational School, Labor Market”. From 1995 to 2000 he studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , as well as after the first legal state examination, the legal clerkship at the OLG Colognefollowed by a second state examination in law. It was in 2005 by the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Bonn with a thesis on "Criminology and Criminal between Empire and National Socialism, Hans von Hentig (1887-1974)" to the doctor of jurisprudence doctorate . In 2012 von Mayenburg completed his habilitation in Bonn. He received the Veniae legendi for civil law, German legal history and church legal history. The habilitation thesis "The Twelve Articles of 1525 and the" Divine Right "of the Peasants: Legal-Historical and Theological Dimensions" was published in 2018. In 2006, Mayenburg was awarded the "Prize of the President of the Italian Republic for the best scientific work on the legal field" for his doctoral thesis. and Political Science Faculty ”, in spring 2008 he was a Fellow at the Istituto di Studi Avanzati, Università di Bologna , Italy.

In 2009/2010 von Mayenburg was given a teaching position at the University of Düsseldorf for the subject “History of Business Law”. In 2011 a teaching position at the University of Mannheim for the subject "Historical Foundations of Private Law" followed, and in 2011/2012 a teaching position at the University of Bayreuth for holding the Great Exercise in Civil Law . In spring 2012, von Mayenburg was a fellow in the LOEWE focus “Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution” in Frankfurt am Main. From February 2013 to January 2014 he was Professor of Legal History and Contemporary Legal History (Extraordinariat) at the University of Lucerne (Switzerland). In 2013 he accepted a professorship for civil law, modern legal history and history of canon law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and has been teaching there since February 2014.

His research focuses on the history of criminal law, the history of medieval canon law and the history of modern law.

Fonts (selection)

• School, vocational school, job market. The English debate about the elementary school reform (1914–1939)  (=  Munich studies on modern and recent history.  Vol. 16). P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
• Criminology and criminal law between the German Empire and National Socialism: Hans von Hentig (1887–1974)  (=  Rheinische Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte.  Vol. 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006 (dissertation, University of Bonn, 2005).
• The measurement of the incommensurable: Ways to determine the compensation for immaterial damage using the example of compensation for pain and suffering (= writings on civil law. Vol. 422). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012.
• Edited with Görge K. Hasselhoff : The Twelve Articles of 1525 and the “Divine Law” of the peasants: legal historical and theological dimensions (= studies of the Bonn Center for Religion and Society. Vol. 8). Ergon, Würzburg 2012.
• Common man and common law. The Twelve Articles and the Law of Rural Areas in the Age of the Peasants' War (= Studies on European Legal History. Vol. 311) Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 2018.

Web links

• David von Mayenburg on the website of the University of Frankfurt am Main