Detlef Liebs

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Detlef Liebs (2011)

Klaus Detlef Herbert Liebs (born October 12, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German legal historian .

Life

Detlef Liebs grew up in Peilau / Silesia , Köthen / Anhalt , Dornheim / Hessen and Karlsruhe . After graduating from the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Karlsruhe , he studied law and ancient Greek at the University of Freiburg from 1955 to 1956, and then from 1956 to 1960 law and history at the University of Göttingen . His teachers there included Rudolf Smend , Gerhard Leibholz , Karl Michaelis , Helmuth Plessner , Alfred Heuss , Jochen Bleicken and Franz Wieacker , for whom he worked as a research assistant during his academic years in Göttingen.

After the first state examination in law, he worked from 1960 to 1962 with Franz Wieacker on his doctorate on a topic from Roman law . He then worked as a court trainee in Göttingen (1962 to 1964), and then assistant to Franz Wieacker at the Institute for Roman and Common Law at the University of Göttingen. He completed his habilitation in 1970 and received the Venia legendi for Roman law, civil law and the history of modern private law . In the same year he was offered the chair for Roman law, civil law and modern history of private law at the University of Freiburg, where Detlef Liebs taught as a full professor until his retirement in 2005; In 1980, he turned down the offer of a chair for Roman law at the University of Vienna .

His constantly varied contacts with colleagues abroad led him to Paris in 1976 during a research semester, where he maintained a lively professional exchange with the epigraphers Hans-Georg Pflaum and André Chastagnol , the papyrologist Joseph Modrzejewski and the Romanist and church historian Jean Gaudemet . In 1984/85 he was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1989 Detlef Liebs was a visiting fellow at All Souls College in Oxford , where he exchanged technical information, in particular with colleagues Tony Honoré , Peter Birks , Fergus Millar , John Matthews and Martin Harrison.

Detlef Liebs has been a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in London since 2005, and a corresponding member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich since 2006 . In April 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich , and in April 2018 in Brasilia he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Público.

Detlef Liebs' main research areas are, besides Roman law, above all the history of Roman jurisprudence including provincial jurisprudence and its survival until the 8th and 9th centuries. Century.

Publications (selection)

  • Hermogenians iuris epitomae . On the status of Roman jurisprudence in the age of Diocletian (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-Historical Class, Third Volume, No. 57). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1964 (dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1962).
  • Right of the buyer "at the front door"? The possibilities of the applicable law, the fundamental problem of a special right to remedy and its design in detail. O. Schwartz, Göttingen 1970, ISBN 3-509-00511-2 .
  • The lawsuit competition in Roman law. On the history of divorce from damages and personal punishment. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1972, ISBN 3-525-18224-4 (habilitation thesis, University of Göttingen, 1969/70).
  • Roman law. A study book (= UTB . 465). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975. 6th, completely revised edition 2004, ISBN 3-8252-0465-0 .
  • Latin legal rules and proverbs. Compiled, translated and explained. CH Beck, Munich 1982. 7th, completely revised and improved edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56294-5 .
  • Jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260–640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises, new series, vol. 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-06157-8 .
  • Roman jurisprudence in Africa with studies on the pseudo-Pauline sentences (= antiquity in modernity. Vol. 3). Berlin 1993. 2nd edition (= Freiburger Rechtsgeschichtliche Abhandlungen. New series, vol. 44). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11617-8 .
  • Roman jurisprudence in Gaul (2nd to 8th centuries) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, vol. 38). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10936-8 .
  • Before the judges of Rome. Famous processes of antiquity. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56296-9 .
  • Court lawyers from the Roman emperors to Justinian. Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7696-1654-5 .
  • The law of the Romans and the Christians. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-154031-8 .

literature

  • Okko Behrends : Detlef Liebs. In: Index. Quaderni camerti di studi romanistici. Vol. 40, 2012, pp. 780-793.
  • Karlheinz Muscheler (Ed.): Roman jurisprudence: dogmatics, tradition, reception. Festschrift for Detlef Liebs on his 75th birthday (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, vol. 63). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-53163-9 .
  • Karlheinz Muscheler: Congratulations. Detlef Liebs on his 80th birthday . In: JuristenZeitung. 71st volume, issue 20, 2016, pp. 1002–1004.
  • Gabor Hamza: Review of Liebs, Detlef: Römisches Recht. A study book. Vandenhoeck-Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1975. In: Acta Juridica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 23 (1981), pp. 237-238.

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personal data
SURNAME Dear, Detlef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dear, Detlev; Liebs, Klaus Detlef Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin