Friedrich Ebrard

Friedrich Ebrard (full: Friedrich August Ebrard; born May 16, 1891 in Basel , † May 19, 1975 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss lawyer and specialist in Roman law .

Ebrard came from an old Huguenot family . In 1917 he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig with a legal dissertation on the Digest , in 1918 he became a private lecturer there. He has taught as an associate since 1920. Professor at the University of Hamburg until 1934 when he refused to take the official oath of Adolf Hitler . In addition, Roman law as a university subject was attacked by the National Socialists. Previously, in November 1933, he had signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He then taught in Switzerland and in 1936 became a professor at the University of Zurich .

Fonts

• The Digest Fragments ad formulam hypothecariam and the Hypothekarrezeption , Leipzig 1917
• On methods, systems, dogmas in the history of private law , Basel 1948
• Babel, Bible and Pandects , Lecture, Prague 1949
• The theodosic project of a "Predigesto" , Milan 1950

literature

• Biographical Lexicon of Deceased Swiss People , Vol. VIII, Basel 1982, p. 18.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Ebrard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gerhard Koebler