Eberhard Friedrich Bruck

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Eberhard Friedrich Bruck (born November 15, 1877 in Breslau ; died October 13, 1960 on the island of Reichenau ) was a German legal historian .

Life

Eberhard Friedrich Bruck was born as the eldest son of Felix Friedrich Bruck , Privy Councilor and Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Breslau . His grandparents were of Jewish descent, but his parents, possibly even his grandparents, had converted to Protestantism. In 1898 he passed his matriculation examination at the grammar school in Breslau. He then studied at the universities in Munich , Breslau and Berlin . In 1901 he passed his legal traineeship in Breslau. He also received his doctorate in Wroclaw in 1904.

From 1904 Bruck worked in Breslau as a court assessor . In 1909 he received his habilitation at the University of Breslau. In 1914 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Geneva . In Saarbrücken , among others , he was a judge- martial during the First World War . In 1916 he returned to Breslau as a professor, where he was promoted to full professor in 1920 . In 1929 he became a professor for Roman and civil law at the University of Frankfurt am Main . His teaching activity on Roman law was shaped by the understanding of this area as a general cultural history, in which theological, socio-historical and political backgrounds of legal life were illuminated. Works such as Part of the Dead and Soul Device in Greek Law (1926) and later Church Fathers and Social Law of Succession (1956) bear witness to this. In 1932 he moved to the University of Bonn , where he succeeded Fritz Schulz .

As a Jewish university professor, he was affected by the 1933 law to restore the civil service and was retired as professor in 1936 . In 1939 he fled to the USA where he worked at Harvard University . In 1952 he finally retired and returned to Germany.

Bruck had married the daughter of the manufacturer Otto Jentzsch. The couple had two children, one of whom became an architect in the United States. Eberhard Friedrich Bruck was the brother of the economist Werner Friedrich Bruck .

literature

  • Werner Flume : In memoriam. Eberhard Friedrich Bruck † . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Department . Volume 78 (1961), pp. 550-553
  • Renate Heuer , Siegbert Wolf (ed.): The Jews of the Frankfurt University . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35502-7 , p. 44 f .
  • Angela Warlo: Eberhard Bruck. In: Mathias Schmoeckel (ed.): The lawyers at the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich”. Böhlau, Cologne 2004, pp. 81-104.
  • Bruck, Eberhard Friedrich , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 48

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Zimmermann : Today's Law, Roman Law and Today's Roman Law . In: Reinhard Zimmermann u. a. (Ed.): Legal history and private law dogmatics. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1999, pp. 1-39 (22).
personal data
SURNAME Bruck, Eberhard Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1960
Place of death Reichenau Island