Franz Bernhöft
Franz (Alwin Friedrich August) Bernhöft (born June 25, 1852 in Karlikow near Lauenburg (Pomerania) , † March 27, 1933 in Rostock ) was a German lawyer and professor at the University of Rostock .
Life
The son of a landowner studied law at the universities of Berlin , Würzburg and Greifswald , where he was awarded a Dr. jur. received his doctorate. He completed his habilitation in 1875 under Ernst Immanuel Bekker at the University of Heidelberg for Roman and civil law. In 1877 he received a call to the University of Rostock. In 1889 he became its rector. He retired in 1922.
Since 1879 he was married to Martha Friederike Elise, b. Hinrichsen. The couple had four children. Daughter Elisabeth Bernhöft is considered to be the first woman to be matriculated at the University of Rostock.
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Bernhöft's research focus was Roman and Germanic early law and comparative law stimulated by comparison of languages and ethnography . Together with Georg Cohn and Josef Kohler , he was one of the founders of the Journal for Comparative Law in 1880 ; with J. Meyer he founded the yearbook of the international association for comparative law in 1895 . He published one of the first complete presentations of the civil code .
Fonts
- The title of possession in Roman law. 1875.
- State and law of the Roman royal era in relation to related rights. Stuttgart: Enke 1882. ( full text in the google book search)
- The inscription from Gortyn. Stuttgart: Enke 1886. ( full text in the google book search)
- Purchase, rent and related contracts. 1889.
- Family names and marriage forms of the North American tribes. A contribution to the history of marriage. 1889. ( full text in google book search)
- Women's life in the past. Wismar: Hinstorff 1893. ( full text in the Google book search)
- The new civil law in a commonly understood presentation. 5 volumes 1902–1907
- (Ed.) From Roman and civil law. (Festschrift EI Bekker) Weimar: Böhlau 1907. ( Full text in the Google book search)
literature
- Gerhard Wesenberg : Bernhöft, Franz Alwin Friedrich August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 126 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Bernhöft in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Franz Bernhöft in the state bibliography MV
- Entry on Franz Bernhöft in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Biography In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich: A Biographical Lexicon. Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11775-6 , p. 69.
- ↑ Registration of Elisabeth Bernhöft in the Rostock matriculation portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernhöft, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bernhöft, Franz Alwin Friedrich August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar, professor at the University of Rostock |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlikow near Lauenburg (Pomerania) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1933 |
| Place of death | Rostock |