Ekkehard Kaufmann

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Ekkehard Kaufmann (born February 17, 1923 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 26, 2010 in Marburg ) was a German lawyer , legal historian and professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Kaufmann was born on February 17, 1923, the son of two natural scientists. During World War II he fought as a soldier in Russia, but was taken prisoner by the Americans . After his return, Kaufmann first studied history, German and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt . There he received his doctorate in 1950 under Paul Kirn Dr. phil. Kaufmann then went on to study law . In 1956 he earned a doctorate in law. Two years later he completed his habilitation, also in Frankfurt.

As a result, Kaufmann worked as a private lecturer and lawyer, and in 1963 he became an adjunct professor in Frankfurt. He held his first and only full professorship from 1965 at the University of Marburg . There he researched and taught until his retirement in 1991. In 1992 he joined a law firm in Marburg, where he worked until 2004.

Kaufmann's main research areas were German legal history, civil law, commercial law and canon law. Kaufmann achieved greater fame as a co-founder of the concise dictionary on German legal history .

Works (selection)

  • History and constitution of the imperial villages of Soden and Sulzbach . 2nd Edition. Lauck, Flörsheim 1981, OCLC 932887243 (first edition: 1951, PhD thesis phil.).
  • The success liability. Investigations into the criminal attribution in legal thought of the early Middle Ages (=  Frankfurt scientific contributions. Volume 16 ). Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1958, OCLC 6252973 (Dissertation iur.).
  • Aequitatis iudicium, royal court and equity in the legal system of the early Middle Ages . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Adalbert Erler , Ekkehard Kaufmann, Dieter Werkmüller (eds.): Concise dictionary on German legal history [HRG] . tape 5 . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-503-00015-1 (with philological assistance from Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand , co-founded by Wolfgang Stammler ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Heinz Holzhauer , accessed on February 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kaufmann, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2010
Place of death Marburg