Francis de Zulueta

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Francis de Zulueta (born September 12, 1878 in London - † January 16, 1958 ), actually Francisco Maria José de Zulueta, was a lawyer and legal historian. From 1919 to 1948 he was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford .

Life

Zulueta was a naturalized Briton, but came from Hispanic-Irish ancestors. His father was the Spanish diplomat Pedro de Zulueta, son of the second Count (Conde) of Torre-Diaz, a Spanish businessman in London. His mother was Laura Mary Sheil, daughter of the British Ambassador to Iran , Sir Justin Sheil . Francis was born on September 12, 1878 in the Spanish Embassy in London.

He was an Oxbridge Fellow at All Souls College and a barrister . He was educated at Beaumont College , a Jesuit- run school in Old Windsor , Berkshire , then the Oratory School in Woodcote , Oxfordshire , and then studied Literae Humaniores at New College , Oxford, where he graduated in 1902. After a Price Fellowship at Merton College and a Vinerian Law Scholarship (1903) he was All Souls Reader in Roman Law (1912-1917). In 1919 he was appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, succeeding Henry Goudy . He was the first Roman Catholic Regius Professor since the Reformation and a leading Catholic figure in Oxford for many years .

Although he was not a fascist , like many Catholic Spaniards of his time, Zulueta supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War . This support earned the highly respected lawyer a bad name at Oxford, where he was portrayed as a fascist aristocrat. This representation contradicts his support of prominent German Jews like Fritz Schulz and David Daube , who developed a deep friendship with Zulueta.

He was a close friend of JRR Tolkien and was the godfather of his daughter Priscilla. He discussed good and bad with Tolkien before the Lord of the Rings . He was a cousin of Cardinal Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta . His son, Philip de Zulueta , became the Foreign Office representative at the Prime Minister's seat, mostly under Harold Macmillan . His grandson is an investment banker in the City of London and a Knight of Malta.

Honors

De Zulueta received honorary doctorates from the University of Aberdeen ( Legum Doctor , LL.D., 1953) and the University of Paris. He read the David Murray Lectures in 1939. In honor of de Zulueta, a commemorative publication was published by his successor in the Regius Professorship, David Daube ( Studies in the Roman Law of Sale: Dedicated to the Memory of Francis de Zulueta ).

Bibliography

118 works by Zulueta in 368 publications are offered in four languages ​​by over 3000 libraries.

Books
  • Patronage in the Later Empire
  • The Liber Pauperum of Vacarius
  • The Roman Law of Sale
  • Institutes of Gaius ; Francis de Zulueta (Ed.)
  • Digest 41,1 and 2 ; Francis de Zulueta (Ed.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frederick Lawson (2004) Zulueta, Francis (formerly Francisco Maria José) de (1878-1958), jurist in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 37089 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i José Manuel Ferrández Bru, JRR Tolkien and the Spanish Civil War ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved April 7, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.josemanuelferrandez.com
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Zulueta Francis de 1878 - 1958 legal historian ( Memento of October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); GB 231 MS 2758 was gifted to the Law Library, University of Aberdeen, c 1970, with Francis de Zulueta's library; Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  4. ^ Francis de Zulueta (LAW PROFESSOR) on the website www.howold.co, accessed on April 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b c H. MacQueen (2013) A Friendship in the Law: David Daube and TB Smith ; Tulane Law Review, vol 87, no.4, page 811 ff.
  6. ↑ Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond (Eds.) Who, Where and When: The History & Constitution of the University of Glasgow ; Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  7. ^ Dataset on De Zulueta, Francis 1878-1958 on Worldcat; Retrieved July 7, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Zulueta, Francis de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Zulueta, Francis; De Zulueta, F .; Zulueta, Francis de; Zulueta, F. de; Zulueta, Francisco Maria José de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1958