Franz von Benda-Beckmann

Franz von Benda-Beckmann (born November 29, 1941 in Greifswald , † January 7, 2013 in Amsterdam ) was a German legal ethnologist. He was one of the most influential and internationally most widely recognized German scholars in the field of legal ethnology .

Life

Franz von Benda-Beckmann studied law in Kiel, Munich and Lausanne. After 16 months of field research in Malawi, he obtained a dissertation at the University of Kiel in 1970 with a thesis on the subject of "Historical development and today's problems of the pluralistic legal system of a former British colonial area". After research assistant at the ethnological seminar of the University of Zurich , he completed his habilitation there in 1979 in general ethnology. He was a private lecturer at the universities of Zurich and Leiden.

From 1981 to 2000 he was Professor of Law in Developing Countries at the Agricultural University of Wageningen . In 2000, together with his wife Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, he became head of research in the legal pluralism project group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle / Saale, where the third department, law and ethnology, was set up. In 2002 he was appointed honorary professor for ethnology at the University of Leipzig and in 2004 as honorary professor for legal pluralism at the University of Halle.

Franz von Benda-Beckmann has - partly together with his wife Keebet von Benda-Beckmann - published 29 books and 266 articles in mostly leading journals in his field and was active in many national and international committees. Together with his wife he co-founded the “International Commission on Legal Pluralism” of the “International Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences”.

literature

Judith Beyer, Markus Weilenmann: Franz von Benda-Beckmann 1941–2013. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie Vol. 138, H. 1 (2013), pp. 105–110.

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personal data
SURNAME	Benda-Beckmann, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 2013
Place of death	Amsterdam