Fritz Berolzheimer

Fritz Berolzheimer (born January 3, 1869 in Bamberg , † September 30, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German legal philosopher and economic philosopher of Jewish origin.

life and work

Berolzheimer first worked as a lawyer, then as a private scholar in Berlin. It is considered a classic of legal and economic philosophy, whereby it represented a variant of neo-Hegelianism , which tries to introduce a form of cultural law compared to legal positivism or a priori legal justifications. B. can be derived from constitutional principles, but can also be claimed as unwritten and higher than positive legal law. He wrote the five-volume system of legal and economic philosophy (1904-07); In 1907 he was a co-founder of theArchives for Legal and Economic Philosophy (ARWP).

Works

• Legal Philosophical Studies , Munich 1903.
• Remuneration in criminal law , Munich 1903.
• System of legal and economic philosophy, CH Beck, Munich 1904–07.
  • Volume 1. Critique of the knowledge content , Munich 1904.
  • Volume 2. The stages of culture in legal and economic philosophy , Munich 1905.
  • Volume 3. Philosophy of the State, including the basics of politics , Munich 1906.
  • Volume 4. Philosophy of property including trade , Munich 1907.
  • Volume 5. Philosophy of criminal law and reform of criminal law , Munich 1907.
• Germany today , Berlin 1909.
• The dangers of an emotional jurisprudence in the present , Berlin 1911.
• The World's Legal Philosophies (Modern Legal Philosophy Series, Vol. 2), Lawbook Exchange Ltd 2002, ISBN 1584772557 . ( Online at Google Books )

literature

• Georg Lasson : Fritz Berolzheimer , obituary, in ARSP 14 (1920/21), 238–250.
• Lothar Lotze, Walter Schier: Fritz Berolzheimer and the ARSP , in: ARSP 73 (1987), 15-29.
• Edmund Mezger:  Berolzheimer, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 146 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Digital copies at archive.org