Dieter Nörr

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Dieter Nörr (born February 20, 1931 in Munich ; † October 3, 2017 there ) was a German legal scholar . From 1970 to 1999 he held the chair for Roman law and civil law at the Law Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Live and act

The parents came from Nuremberg. The father was a judge and the mother was the daughter of the local archivist. He had two brothers and two sisters and two half-siblings from his father's second marriage. He passed the Abitur in 1949 at the Maxgymnasium in Munich. He studied from 1949 to the summer semester 1953 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He was mainly influenced by Mariano San Nicolò and the Byzantinist Franz Dölger . After doing his doctorate (1955) and studying at the University of Heidelberg (1954) and in Rome (1955/1956), he completed his legal clerkship until 1958 and then worked for a year as a research assistant at the Institute for Criminal Law and Legal Philosophy with Karl Engisch . In 1959, he was with a book on the Byzantine contract law habilitated and appointed lecturers. In the same year, Nörr represented the chair for Roman and civil law at the University of Hamburg . In 1960 he moved to the University of Münster as the successor to Max Kaser as a full professor of Roman and civil law . After rejecting offers from the universities of Hamburg, Tübingen and Bielefeld , he returned to Munich in 1970 as successor to Wolfgang Kunkel , where he retired in 1999 . His assistant Alfons Bürge was his successor on the chair. After his retirement he wrote another 35 articles and one last monograph between 2000 and his death.

Nörr's main research interests were Roman law and the philosophy of law. From 1971 to 2001 Nörr was co-editor of the Romance department of the Savigny Foundation's journal for legal history . He was a visiting fellow at All Souls College in Oxford in 1983 and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 1986/87 . He was awarded honorary doctorates from the Universities of Amsterdam (1990) and Kyūshū in Fukuoka (1991) and Paris II (1997). He was a member of many scientific academies, including the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts (full member since 1967, corresponding member since 1970), the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 1972), the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (since 1979), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member since 1984) and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1992) and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice (1993). He was also a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1988.

Fonts (selection)

A list of writings appeared in: Hans-Dieter Spengler : List of writings by Dieter Nörr. in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Romance Studies Department. 136, 2019, pp. 616-628.

Monographs

  • Studies on Criminal Law in the Hammurabi Code. Dissertation, University of Munich 1955.
  • The negligence in Byzantine contract law. Beck, Munich 1960 (also habilitation thesis, University of Munich 1958/59).
  • Empire and Polis in the High Principal Age. Munich 1966. 2nd, revised edition. Beck, Munich 1969.
  • The origin of the longi temporis praescriptio. Studies on the influence of time in law and on legal policy in the imperial era. Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne / Opladen 1969.
  • Divisio and Partitio. Remarks on Roman legal sources and on ancient philosophy of science. Schweitzer, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-8059-0243-3 .
  • Legal criticism in Roman antiquity. Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7696-0072-X .
  • Causa mortis. On the trail of a phrase. Beck, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-406-31232-2 .
  • Aspects of Roman International Law. The bronze plaque from Alcántara, presented to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences on July 4, 1986. Philosophical-Historical Class, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7696-0096-7 .
  • The Fides in Roman International Law. Müller, Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-7696-1632-4 .
  • Savigny's philosophical apprenticeship. One try. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-465-02637-3 .
  • Roman Law: History and Stories. The case of Arescusa et alii (Dig. 19,1,43 sq.). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7696-1632-4 .

Collected Posts

  • Historiae iuris antiqui. Collected Writings. 3 volumes. Edited by Tiziana J. Chiusi, Wolfgang Kaiser and Hans-Dieter Spengler. Keip, Goldbach near Aschaffenburg 2003, ISBN 3-8051-0931-8 .
  • Writings 2001–2010: On the occasion of his 80th birthday. Edited by Tiziana J. Chiusi and Hans-Dieter Spengler. Marcial Pons, Madrid 2012, ISBN 978-84-9768-925-0 .

literature

  • Alfons Bürge : Dieter Nörr (2.2.1931–3.10.2017). In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Yearbook 2017, Munich 2018, p. 115 ( online )
  • Tiziana J. Chiusi , Hans-Dieter Spengler : Dieter Nörr (February 20, 1931– October 3, 2017). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Romance Studies Department. 136, 2019, pp. XI-XXI.
  • Wolfgang Kaiser : Dieter Nörr (February 20, 1931– October 3, 2017). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2017. Heidelberg 2018, pp. 381–383 ( online ).
  • Nörr, Dieter. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 3: M - Sd. 28th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-040487-6 , p. 2670.
  • Gerhard Thür : Dieter Nörr. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 2017, 167th volume, Vienna 2018, pp. 386–390.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Tiziana J. Chiusi, Hans-Dieter Spengler Dieter Nörr (February 20, 1931– October 3, 2017). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Romance Studies Department 136 (2019), pp. XI – XXI, here: p. XI.
personal data
SURNAME Nörr, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 2017
Place of death Munich