Emil Sehling

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Emil Sehling (1860–1928) (detail from a group photo of the teaching staff at the University of Erlangen, approx. 1922)

Emil Georg Adolf Heinrich Sehling (born July 9, 1860 in Essen , † November 30, 1928 in Erlangen ) was a German lawyer and canon lawyer .

Life

Emil Sehling was built in 1860 in Essen, the son of Railway - surveyor born Carl Sehling. As early as 1877 he began studying law , first at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , then at the University of Leipzig . There he became a student of the most important German lawyer of the 19th century, Emil Friedberg . In 1878 he won the award task of the law faculty with an essay, and on December 2, 1881 he was awarded a Dr. iur. utr. PhD. Also in December 1881, he presented the Prussian state board of examiners in Naumburg , the first legal state exam from. In 1882 he volunteered for the then widespread military service as a one-year volunteer and began legal clerkship in 1883 . At the same time he completed his habilitation in canon law and in 1885 became a private lecturer in this subject in Leipzig. In 1888 he passed the second state examination in law and was appointed associate professor in Leipzig.

In 1888 he received his first appointment for the subjects canon law, commercial law and private law at the University of Kiel , but in the next year (1889) he was appointed to the full professorship for canon law in Erlangen . In 1893 he was also given teaching assignments for German private law, commercial law and maritime law. In 1900 he married Agnes Berta Maria Schuster. In 1919 he finally received another additional teaching position for commercial law at the newly founded Nuremberg Commercial College .

Awards, honors and memberships

Because of his services to the Protestant Church and canon law, Emil Sehling received an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty in Erlangen in 1919. He also received the following awards and medals:

In addition, Sehling was a member of the following clubs and associations

  • St. George's Association of German Nobles and Patricians in Berlin (since 1911)
  • Société de Crimologogie et de Défense sociale de Paris (since 1914)
  • Founding member of the Academic-Musical Association Bonn 1878
  • Member of Schlaraffia Erlangen

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In addition to his teaching activities, Emil Sehling u. a .:

He also wrote a number of standard works:

  • The history of the Protestant church constitution . 1907 (2nd edition 1914)
  • Canon law (Göschen Collection 1908, further editions 1922/27)
  • Basic concepts of potash law . 1922 (mining law)
  • Commercial Law Textbook (1924)

His most important work, however, was the beginning of the 22-volume work The Evangelical Church Orders of the XVI. Century

The importance of the church ordinances of the 16th century not only for the life and shape of the Protestant regional churches , but also for the entire German legal history and their influence well into modern times had been known since the 19th century. After a few uncritical collections in the 18th century, Ämilius Ludwig Richter (1808–1864) attempted such a project for a scientific edition, which, however, only contained a short selection of strongly abbreviated texts in two volumes. After lengthy preparatory work, Emil Sehling finally began the project of a complete edition. In the foreword to the first volume in 1902, he sets out his plan: Sehling wanted to deal with all of the relevant territories, i.e. a selection, of the German Empire in a total of five volumes. But in the third volume in 1909 he had to give up this plan, and in the fifth volume in 1913 he spoke of at least three more volumes. After the First World War , however, neither the Protestant churches nor Emil Sehling were able to take up the project again.

The project could only be taken up in 1955 with the support of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) . From 1955 to 1980 another ten volumes could be published. Then the project was discontinued and only taken over by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 2002. Six volumes have been published since then, and further volumes are in preparation; By the time the project is completed, the collection will nominally comprise 24 main volumes, of which, however, a number of volumes are again divided into sub-volumes.

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  1. ↑ Allschlaraffische Stammrolle, aU 65/66, p. 430.
personal data
SURNAME Sehling, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sehling, Emil Georg Adolf Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and canon lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1928
Place of death gain