Fritz Pringsheim

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Fritz Robert Pringsheim (born October 7, 1882 in Hünern , Trebnitz district , province of Silesia , † April 24, 1967 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German legal scholar .

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Fritz Pringsheim came from the German-Jewish merchant family Pringsheim from Silesia , he attended the humanistic Maria Magdalenen Gymnasium in Breslau until 1902 and then studied law at the universities of Munich , Heidelberg and Breslau , where he passed the first state examination and received his doctorate in 1905. After military service and legal preparatory service , he passed the second state examination in Wroclaw in 1911 . After working as a court assessor in Leipzig , he turned to a scientific activity in the vicinity of the legal historian Ludwig Mitteis .

At the First World War Pringsheim participated as a lieutenant in part. During a leave from the front in 1915, he completed his habilitation at the University of Freiburg . After the end of the war, he began teaching as a private lecturer for Roman and German civil law at the University of Freiburg, where he was appointed associate professor in 1921. In 1923 he was appointed full professor at the University of Göttingen , and in 1929 a chair for Roman and civil law in Freiburg.

Because of his Jewish descent, Pringsheim was dismissed with the abolition of the so-called front fighter privilege as a result of the law to restore the civil service in 1935. He found a job at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, where he could continue his research and publish it abroad. In 1939, after his arrest and internment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he emigrated to Great Britain and worked at Oxford University.

In 1946 Pringsheim returned to his chair in Freiburg, but continued to teach at Oxford. It was not until 1958 that he finally settled in Freiburg again. There he took up his teaching activities in full until 1962 and held his seminar on Roman law until the winter semester 1966/67.

In 1932 Pringsheim became an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1939 he was removed from the list of members and in 1947 he was re-accepted as a corresponding member. In 1952 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Pringsheim's main work was the research of Greek , Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine law (focus: late antiquity ).

His older brothers were Hans and Ernst Georg Pringsheim .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the doctrine of the assignment and attachment of the inheritance. R. Noske, Borna 1906 (also: dissertation, University of Breslau, 1906).
  • The legal status of the acquirer of an inheritance (for the interpretation of § 2033 Paragraph 1. BGB) (= studies to explain civil law. H. 32). Marcus, Breslau 1910.
  • Buying with someone else's money. Studies on the importance of the price payment for property acquisition according to Greek and Roman law (= Romanistic contributions to legal history. H. 1). Veit, Leipzig 1916 (also: habilitation thesis, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1916).
  • The Greek Law of Sale. Böhlau, Weimar 1950.
  • To the plan for a new edition of the basilicas. Justification of their necessity and considerations for their production (report to the Prussian Academy of Sciences from 1937) (= Berlin Byzantine works. Vol. 7). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1956.
  • Legal Education and Political Thinking. Words to German students. Rombach, Freiburg 1960.
  • Collected Treatises. 2 volumes. Winter, Heidelberg 1961.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Julius Wolff : Fritz Pringsheim †. In: Gnomon . Vol. 39, H. 7 (November 1967), pp. 732-735.
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Fritz Pringsheim. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 17, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 194.
  4. ↑ Reinhard Zimmermann : Today's Law, Roman Law and Today's Roman Law . In: Reinhard Zimmermann u. a. (Ed.): Legal history and private law dogmatics. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1999, pp. 1–39, here p. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Pringsheim, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pringsheim, Fritz Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Hünern , District of Trebnitz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1967
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau