Emil Albert Friedberg

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Emil Albert Friedberg (born December 22, 1837 in Konitz ( West Prussia ), † September 7, 1910 in Leipzig ) was a lawyer and teacher of canon law.

Life

Emil Albert Friedberg, who came from a German-Jewish family but was baptized, studied law at the University of Berlin from 1856 and in the summer semester of 1857 at the University of Heidelberg . Friedberg studied with Friedrich Ludwig Keller , who is said to have suggested to him to examine a doctoral thesis on the evidence of all interpolations in the digests and to work out their meaning. In 1861 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a legal history dissertation on the relationship between state and church, in 1862 he also completed his habilitation in Berlin and in 1865 became associate professor at the University of Halle . In 1868 he became a full professor at the University of Freiburg , but in 1869 he went to the University of Leipzig . There he became an internationally important scholar in the field of canon law. He was one of the most important authors of the 19th century, especially in the field of state church law. In addition, he created the edition of the Corpus Iuris Canonici (1879/81, reprint 1955/59), which is still relevant today . In 1881 he received the title of Privy Councilor. In 1896/97 he was rector of the University of Leipzig.

In the dispute between state and church, he was one of the most important champions of state sovereignty. He dedicated numerous writings to this topic, with the work “The boundaries between state and church and the guarantees against their violation” from 1872 being particularly outstanding. He was also involved in the enactment of the Prussian church laws of 1872 in an influential way.

Friedberg had also made significant contributions to the history of Leipzig University. This mainly concerns his work on the Faculty of Law. These found their most lasting expression in 1909 in the commemorative publication for the 500th anniversary of the University of Leipzig. There is also a general account of him published by Leipzig University in 1898. His most important merits, however, he earned with the publication of: A new critical edition of the Corpus iuris canonici (Leipzig 1879–81, 2 parts.) This remained unfinished.

Since 1897 Friedberg was an honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig.

Works

In his dissertation De finium inter ecclesiam et civitatem regundorum judicio (Leipzig 1861) he advocated the rights of the state over the church.

He followed the same tendency in his other numerous writings:

  • Marriage and marriage in the German Middle Ages . Berlin 1864.
  • The right of marriage in its historical development . Leipzig 1865.
  • The Protestant and Catholic Church of the newly incorporated countries in their relations with the Prussian regional church and the state . Hall 1867.
  • From German penance books . Hall 1868.
  • The government veto in episcopal elections . Hall 1869
  • Agende, as it is held in the churches of the Elector of Saxony Landen . Hall 1869.
  • The history of civil marriage . Berlin 1870.
  • The state and the Catholic Church in the Grand Duchy of Baden . Leipzig 1871. 2nd edition 1874.
  • The German Empire and the Catholic Church . Leipzig 1872.
  • The boundaries between state and church . Tübingen 1872.
  • Collection of documents relating to the first Vatican council . Tübingen 1872.
  • The Prussian bills on the position of the church in relation to the state . Leipzig 1873.
  • Johannes Baptista Baltzer . Leipzig 1873.
  • The state and the elections for bishops in Germany . Leipzig 1874.
  • Documents concerning the Old Catholic Movement . Tuebingen 1876.
  • Textbook of Catholic and Protestant canon law . Leipzig 1879. 2nd edition 1884.
  • The Collegium Juridicum . Leipzig 1882.
  • The applicable constitutional laws of the Protestant German regional church . Freiburg. i. Br. 1885.

He also published a new critical edition of the Corpus iuris canonici (Leipzig 1879-81, 2 parts.) And the Quinque compilationes antiquae (Leipzig 1882).

Since 1864 he edited the magazine for church law with Richard Wilhelm Dove .

literature

Christoph Link: Emil Friedberg (1937-1910). Canon lawyer of the historical school of law, "state canonist" and fellow campaigner in the "Kulturkampf". In: Helmut Heinrichs et al. (Ed.): German lawyers of Jewish origin. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 978-3-406-36960-5 , pp. 283-300. (with numerous other references)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 223.
  2. ↑ 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 (18).
personal data
SURNAME Friedberg, Emil Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedberg, Emil von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canon lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Konitz
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1910
Place of death Leipzig