Emil Seckel

Emil Seckel (born January 10, 1864 in Neuenheim near Heidelberg, † April 26, 1924 in Todtmoos ) was a German lawyer and legal historian.

Emil Seckel studied law at the University of Tübingen . During his studies there, he was a member of the Tübingen student association, Akademische Gesellschaft Stuttgardia, which shaped southern German liberalism . Seckel, who had been a private lecturer since 1895, was appointed professor in 1898. In 1901, Seckel took over the professorship for Roman law at the University of Berlin. On December 7, 1911, he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , which was confirmed on January 4 of the following year. In 1920, Seckel was appointed rector of the Humboldt University in Berlin as the successor to the historian Eduard Meyer . In 1921 he was followed by the chemist Walther Nernst .

Seckel's main areas of research were law and especially Roman law. The edition of the Capitular Collection of Benedictus Levita was one of his central fields of work. The central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica assigned him the task of preparing the publication of a new edition in 1896 after the responsible editor Victor Krause suddenly died at the age of 31. By the time he died, Seckel had published more than a thousand pages of source study, but he was no longer able to present a new edition of Benedictus Levita.

Seckel's sons were the pediatrician Helmut Paul George Seckel (1900–1960), after whom the Seckel syndrome is named, and the art historian Dietrich Seckel .

literature

• Gerhard Schmitz:  Seckel, Emil Paul Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 113 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Seckel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Edition of the false capitularies of Benedictus Levita

Remarks

1. ↑ Helmut Seckel in Whonamnedit? Retrieved April 13, 2013.