Edmund Bernatzik

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Edmund Bernatzik (born September 28, 1854 in Mistelbach , in what was then Austria-Hungary , † March 30, 1919 in Vienna , Austria) was an Austrian lawyer and an important teacher of constitutional and administrative law.

Life

Bernatzik studied at the universities of Vienna and Graz and obtained his doctorate in law in 1874. After a few years in the judicial service as adjunct at several Lower Austrian courts, then as prefect of law at the Theresianum, he qualified as a professor in Vienna in 1886 for public law. The doctrine represented in his habilitation thesis “Jurisprudence and substantive legal force” on legal force was raised to a resolution at the 26th German Lawyers' Conference, which caused this work to attract a lot of attention.

After a few years as a private lecturer and a year in Innsbruck, where he was appointed professor of canon law in 1891, Bernatzik was appointed full professor in Basel.

In 1893 he moved to Graz, in 1894 to the University of Vienna as professor for general and Austrian constitutional law and general and Austrian administrative law. He became the leading Austrian teacher of constitutional law at the turn of the century and, alongside Otto Mayer, was the founder of the legal method in German administrative science. He is credited with major contributions to the transformation of the old Austrian police state into a constitutional state.

Bernatzik was also an advocate for women's studies; In 1900 he wrote a report in which he advocated admitting women to the law faculty in Vienna. Despite the approval of the law faculty, the Ministry of Education only decided in 1918 to open law studies in Austria to women. Together with his daughter Maria Hafferl-Bernatzik, he founded a law academy for women as a non-university training institution as early as 1917. His daughter, who already represented the subject of “private law” at this academy, was the third woman to do her doctorate in law in Vienna.

Bernatzik was a member of the imperial-royal court and in 1911 was appointed a member of a commission that was supposed to implement far-reaching administrative reforms. At the University of Vienna he was dean twice and rector in 1910/11.

Edmund Bernatzik was the father of the ethnologist, photographer and founder of applied ethnology Hugo Bernatzik . He was buried at the Heiligenstädter Friedhof in Vienna.

Eduard Bernatzik was a member of the Silesia academic fraternity in Vienna.

Works

  • Jurisprudence and material legal force, 1886
  • Critical studies on the concept of the legal person, in: Archiv f. public Law, Vol. 5, 1888
  • Republic and Monarchy, 1892
  • The system of proportional choice. In: Yearbook for Legislation, Administration and Economics in the German Empire . Vol. 17 (1893), pp. 393-426 ( digitized version ).
  • Anarchism. An academic inaugural address. In: Yearbook for Legislation, Administration and Economics in the German Empire . Vol. 19 (1895), pp. 1-20 ( digitized version ).
  • The constitutional dispute between Sweden and Norway, in: Grünhuts Wiener Zs., 1899
  • Austrian Constitutional Laws, student edition, 1906, ²1911 ( digitized at archive.org )
  • Police and cultural policy, in: Kultur der Gegenwart 1906, 1913
  • About nat. Registries, 1910
  • The shaping of the national feeling in the 19th century, the rule of law and the like. Cultural State (2 lectures), 1912
  • French Syndicalism, in: Archives for the History of Socialism, Vol. 6, 1914
  • News on the Pragmatic Sanction, 1915

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Adamovich senior :  Bernatzik, Edmund, constitutional lawyer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 103 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Matricula - Viewer. In: www.data.matricula.info. Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ ALO docView - annual report of the Association for Advanced Women's Education in Vienna. 12th year, 1899/1900 (1900). In: www.literature.at. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Law Academy for Women. In:  Neues Wiener Abendblatt , October 12, 1918, p. 5 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
  5. ↑ Ilse Reiter : Legal training at the University of Vienna. A historical overview. (PDF; 176 kB) University of Vienna , 2007, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Young Life, 2/2019, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Bernatzik, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian constitutional lawyer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Mistelbach , according to other sources Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1919
Place of death Vienna