Hertzberg ebb

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Ebbe Carsten Hornemann Hertzberg (born April 11, 1847 in Holmestrand , † October 2, 1912 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian legal historian and economist .

Life

Ebbe Carsten Horneman Hertzberg was born as the son of the pharmacist Johan Christian Linde Hertzberg and his wife Inger Horneman in southern Norway. He studied legal history in Christiania and Uppsala , as well as in 1872 and 1873 as a student of Konrad Maurer in Munich , whose specialty was Old Norse legal history. He remained lifelong friendship with Maurer.

Ebbe Hertzberg was an Attaché scholarship holder at the Norwegian-Swedish embassy in Paris for almost two years and then became the first professor of economics and statistics in Norway in 1877 . In 1884 he belonged to the brief " April Ministry " as a minister in Stockholm .

Two years later, the law school of his university demanded that Hertzberg resign from all public offices. The reason for this were rumors that Hertzberg had had relationships with young working-class men since the 1870s. To save his reputation and his job, Hertzberg went to Berlin to see the psychiatrist Carl Westphal , whom he asked for an expert opinion. Hertzberg was the first diagnosed homosexual in Norway with the report of July 12, 1886 . Hertzberg hoped to gain an understanding of his behavior through the diagnosis of his "contrary sexual sensation" by a recognized doctor in Norway and to convince the university management that his inclination was due to hereditary factors and not moral deficiencies. However, this did not succeed. A same-sex professor was considered untenable and Hertzberg had to give up his position on October 14, 1886.

Hertzberg then left Christiania for several years, which he spent in Munich, Berlin, Holmestrand and Stockholm, and turned back to his legal history studies. In 1895 his main work, the 800-page glossary of Norges gamle Love (The old laws of Norway), a standard work for Norwegian legal history, appeared. After completing this work, Hertzberg returned to public life in his country. From 1903 to 1908 he was director of the Norwegian mortgage bank and from 1906 the Norwegian Reich archivist . In addition, he continued to study legal history. After Maurer's death, Hertzberg published his collected lectures on Old Norse legal history in five volumes from manuscripts in Maurer's estate. In 1907 he received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Saint Olav . He died unmarried in 1912.

Works (selection)

  • En Fremdstilling af det norske aristokratis historie indtil kong Sverres tid . Johan Dahl, Christiania 1869. Ga HKH Kronprinsens gullmedalje 1868.
  • Grundtrækkene i den ældste norske proces , Kristiania: I kommission hos Aschehoug, 1874.
  • En Kritisk Fremdstilling af grundsætningerne for seddelbankers indretning og virksomhed med særligt hensyn til de scandinaviske seddelbanker i deres nuværende skikkelse . Malling, Kristiania 1877, urn : nbn: no-nb_digibok_2007082912002 .
  • Om kredittens begreb og væsen . Malling, Kristiania 1877.
  • Professor Schweigaard in the public Virksomhed: 1832-1870 . Cammermeyer, Kristiania 1883, urn : nbn: no-nb_digibok_2006082800035 .
  • Retskilderne and statsretten: De nordiske Retskilder . 1890.
  • Throndhjems politiske and statsretslige forhold i sagatiden . Hoarding 1897.
  • Glossarium til Norges gamle love . 1895.
  • Glossary for Norges gamle Love indtil 1387 . Full text version on CD-ROM, initiated a. with e. Bibliography provided by Hans Fix. AQ-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2013, ISBN 978-3-922441-47-2
  • Om Eiendomsretten til det norske Kirkegods. En retshistorisk Betænkning . AW Brøggers Bogtrykkeri, Kristiania 1898.
  • The international position of Norway according to public law , Christiania, 1899.
  • The constitutional position of Norway . Christiania 1899.
  • The situation international de la Norvege d'apres le droit public . Christiania 1899.

In 1902, Hertzberg anonymously published the essay Traces of Contrary Sexuality Among the Ancient Scandinavians , written in German . It was not until 1922 that Ferdinand Karsch-Haack revealed the secret that the unknown scholar Ebbe was Hertzberg.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hertzberg, ebb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertzberg, Ebbe Carsten Hornemann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian legal historian and economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Holmestrand
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1912
Place of death Christiania