Erwin Seidl

Erwin Seidl (born November 6, 1905 in Munich ; † April 4, 1987 ) was a German papyrologist , lawyer and legal historian .

He graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1924 and then studied law. In 1929 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich with the thesis The Oath in Ptolemaic Law . In 1932 he became a private lecturer at the University of Munich. In 1935/36 he was awarded a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 1937 he became an associate professor in Greifswald in 1941. From January 1, 1942 to 1958, he was a full professor for Roman and German civil law at the University of Erlangen . As provisional (deputy) dean of the law and political science faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , he was a member of the Academic Senate of the Würzburg University in 1948 , where he lectured on Roman law. From 1958 to 1971 he held the chair for Roman and civil law at the University of Cologne .

Publications

• The oath in Roman-Egyptian provincial law
  • Volume 1: The time from the conquest of Egypt to the beginning of Diocletian's reign. Munich 1933.
  • Volume 2: The time from the beginning of Diocletian's reign to the conquest of Egypt by the Arabs. Munich 1935.
• Demotic doctrine of documents based on the early Ptolemaic texts, Munich 1937.
• Introduction to Egyptian legal history up to the end of the New Kingdom. Volume 1: Legal part, Glückstadt 1939.
• Ptolemaic legal history, Erlangen 1947.
• Roman private law, Erlangen 1949.
• Egyptian legal history of the string and Persian times, Glückstadt 1956; 2., rework. Glückstadt 1968 edition.
• Roman legal history and Roman civil procedural law. 2nd edition Cologne 1962; 3rd, supplementary edition Cologne 1971. ISBN 3-452-17182-5 .
• Roman private law, Cologne 1963.
• Legal history of Egypt as a Roman province: the assertion of Egyptian law alongside Roman law, Sankt Augustin 1973. ISBN 3-921255-00-7 .
• Land use and land lease according to the demotic texts of the Ptolemaic period, Vienna 1973. ISBN 3-7001-0036-1 .

literature

• Heinz Hübner et al. (Ed.): Festschrift for Erwin Seidl on his 70th birthday. Cologne 1975. ISBN 3-7756-7701-1 (with list of publications).
• Association for the Promotion of Law (ed.): Academic commemoration for Professor Dr. Erwin Seidl, 1905-1987, on December 9, 1988 . Cologne 1989.
• Arnold Kränzlein : In memoriam Erwin Seidl (1905–1987) . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Department . 106, pp. 766-773 (1989)
• Martin Avenarius :  Seidl, Erwin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 182 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Seidl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1923/24
2. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 6 f. and 9.