Friedrich Schulin

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Johann Friedrich Paul Schulin (born August 4, 1843 in Frankfurt am Main , † March 31, 1898 in Dornach ) was a German - Swiss legal scholar , legal historian and judge . Schulin was professor of law at the universities in Marburg and Basel .

Life

Friedrich Schulin was born as the son of Philipp Friedrich Schulin (1800–1874). His father was a lawyer and a member of the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt . Friedrich initially received private lessons and later went to high school. There he stood out for his special talents and reached university entrance qualification at the age of 17. However, at the request of his father, he stayed at the grammar school for another year.

Schulin studied law at the universities in Heidelberg , Tübingen and Berlin . The last semester he studied at the University of Marburg, where his parents had settled due to the poor health of his father. At the University of Marburg doctorate Schulin in May 1869 Doctor of Law and habilitated himself in the same year at the law school of the University of Marburg with the habilitation De rebus sub resolutiva in diem addictionis vel commissoria put venditis as a lecturer for Roman Law . In May 1874 he received an extraordinary professorship for Roman law, but left the University of Marburg in July 1874.

In the fall of 1874, he accepted the call as a full professor of Roman law at the University of Basel. From 1876 to 1891 and from 1893 to 1895 Schulin was also an appeal judge in Basel. In 1878 he was made rector of the University of Basel and in 1892 an honorary citizen of the city of Basel . In 1881 he became a member of the Académie de législation in Toulouse . He had refused appointments to the universities in Rostock , Greifswald and Kiel . In 1888 Schulin was part of the delegation from the Basel University that took part in the celebrations to mark the 800th anniversary of the University of Bologna . He retired at Easter 1896 . Because of his merits, the philosophy faculty of Basel University honored him in November 1896 with the award of an honorary doctorate .

Friedrich Schulin died on March 31, 1898, at the age of 54, in Dornach, Switzerland, of a long-standing heart condition.

Schulin left an extensive body of literature . His studies dealt primarily with Roman, but later also Greek law and legal systems of even older cultures. In 1873 he published Ueber some applications of Publicana in rem actio , which he dedicated to his father as a faithful teacher in his youth. Two years later his work on resolute conditions and deadlines appeared . On behalf of the legal faculty in Basel, Schulin wrote the commemorative publication on the doctrine of the place of fulfillment and the place of jurisdiction of the obligations under Roman law in 1879 , which he presented at a meeting of the Swiss Lawyers' Association. The Greek Testament compared to the Roman one appeared in 1882 as the rectorate program. He dedicated his main work, Textbook of the History of Roman Law , published in 1889, to Andreas Heusler on the occasion of his 25th anniversary as a professor. It was translated into Russian as early as 1893.

Publications (selection)

  • De rebus sub resolutiva in diem addictionis vel commissoria lege venditis. ( Habilitation thesis ), Marburg 1869.
  • About some applications of the Publiciana in rem actio. A civilist treatise. Marburg 1873.
  • About resolute conditions and deadlines. A civilist treatise. Marburg 1875.
  • Ad Pandectarum titulum De Origine Juris commentatio. Basel 1876.
  • On the doctrine of the place of performance and the place of jurisdiction of the obligations under Roman law. ( Festschrift for the Swiss Lawyers Association), Basel 1879.
  • Three academic lectures on legal history. Basel 1881.
  • The Greek Testament compared to the Roman. Basel 1882.
  • Textbook of the History of Roman Law. Stuttgart 1889.

literature

  • Albert Teichmann : Schulin, Johann, Friedrich, Paul. In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 3, pages 148-149, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1900, ( digitized ).
  • Supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung , ( obituary ), year 1898, number 77 of April 6, 1898, page 8, ( digitized version ).
  • Schulin, Johann Friedrich Paul. In: Richard Kukula: Bibliographical yearbook of German universities. Page 840, Wagner University Bookshop, Innsbruck 1892, ( digitized ).

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personal data
SURNAME Schulin, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulin, Johann Friedrich Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss legal scholar, legal historian and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1898
Place of death Dornach