Ernst Mayer (legal historian)

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Ernst Mayer (1932)

Ernst Mayer (born January 22, 1862 in Algertshausen , † August 16, 1932 in Würzburg ) was a German legal historian . He was a student of Konrad Maurer in Munich and professor for German legal history in Würzburg.

Origin and career

Mayer was the son of the miller and grain dealer in Algertshausen and later a merchant and commercial judge in Munich, Ernst Johann Mayer (1835–1906) and his wife Emilie Katharina born. Hemberle (1838–1873) from Karlsruhe. From 1873 to 1879 Ernst Mayer attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich. His grandfather was the classicist sculptor Ernst Mayer .

Ernst Mayer studied as a Maximilaneer from 1879 law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, among others with the legal historian Konrad Maurer, and received his doctorate in 1884 with an award paper on "The Church Sovereignty of the King of Bavaria", which was awarded by the Law Faculty of the University of Munich. In the same year he passed the first state examination in law and became a legal intern. In 1886 he was appointed to the chair for German legal history at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . After his habilitation in the same year, he was appointed full professor in 1887, which he held for 46 years until his death in 1932. During the war years 1915/16, privy councilor Ernst Mayer was Rector magnificus of the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg. He gave the keynote address on the 334th anniversary of the University of Würzburg on May 11, 1916. Mayer was a bearer of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .

Since 1918 he was also a part-time judge at the Higher Regional Court of Würzburg. In the course of his life he belonged to various political parties by name: first of all the old liberals, for whom he ran twice for the Bavarian state parliament in the constituency of Kitzingen-Scheinfeld before the First World War ; later the National Liberal Party .

During the Weimar Republic he co-founded the short-lived, non-denominational Bavarian People's Party and, as a supporter of the Constitutional Monarchy, was in personal correspondence with Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Occasionally he appeared as a meeting speaker at the DNVP .

Ernst Mayer was married to Karoline geb. Koch (1867–1927) and had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son Ernst, an engineering student , died in France during the First World War, his second son Hellmuth Mayer was professor of criminal law and criminology in Rostock and Kiel .

Ernst Mayer himself was a synodal member of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Bavaria , whose regional bishops were the Catholic kings of Bavaria according to the ' summus episcopus principle '.

Works

Mayer's main works are:

the two-volume German and French constitutional history from the 9th to the 14th century (1899) - reprint Scientia 1968;
the two-volume Italian constitutional history from the time of the Goths to the rule of guilds (1909) - reprinted Scientia 1968;
the Historia de las instituciones sociales y politicas de Espana y Portugal. Durante los siglos VA XIX 1925 - Reprint Scientia 1991.

Mayer attached great importance to extensive source material with which he tried to substantiate his basic legal-historical thesis of the constitutional and legal continuity between late antiquity and the early and high Middle Ages.

Further works in selection:

The ecclesiastical sovereignty of the King of Bavaria 1883 (dissertation award assignment);
On the creation of the Lex Ribuariorum 1886 (habilitation thesis);
Comments on the early medieval, especially Italian, constitutional history in 1912;
The cladding in Germanic law 1913;
Jury and Inquisition Trial 1916;
Old Spanish Code of Obligations 1920.

The Festschrift Ernst Mayer on the occasion of his 70th birthday, signed by 64 colleagues and friends as well as 8 institutions, Weimar 1932

Awards

Mayer was a member of the scientific academies of Göttingen (1926), Padua , Oslo and Venice , as well as the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 162.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Algertshausen
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1932
Place of death Wurzburg