Ernst Rudolf Bierling

Ernst Rudolf Bierling (born January 7, 1841 in Zittau ; † November 8, 1919 in Greifswald ) was a German legal scholar and politician. He is considered to be the main proponent of the theory of recognition , which tries to justify legal validity with the recognition of the law by the legal counterparts.

Life

Bierling, son of a Zittau lawyer, studied law in Leipzig and became a lawyer in Zittau in 1868. During his studies in the summer of 1859 he became a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (now the German Choir ). In 1871 he went to Göttingen as a private lecturer . In 1873 he went to Greifswald and was there at today's university until 1901 full professor of church and criminal law.

From 1878 to 1899 Bierling was a member of the Pomeranian Provincial Synod, and in 1875 and 1884–1902 a member of the General Synod of the Evangelical Regional Church of the older provinces of Prussia . From 1881 to 1885 he was a conservative member of the Prussian House of Representatives and since 1889 a member of the manor house for life.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 33

Works

• 1869 Legislative right of Protestant regional churches in the field of church doctrine
• 1873 Modern doctrine and the immutable rights of Lutheran church teaching
• 1876 The essence of positive law and canon law
• 1877–1883 On the Critique of Basic Legal Terms , 2 volumes
• 1881 Small contributions to teaching about marriage a. wedding
• 1885 The denominational school in Prussia and its law
• 1894–1911 Legal principles , 4 volumes

literature

• R. Kukula: Bibliographical Yearbook of German Universities , 1892; KJ 47, 1920, 577
• Dietrich Lang-Hinrichsen :  Bierling, Ernst Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 232 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Rudolf Bierling in the catalog of the German National Library