Georg Cohn

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Georg Cohn

Georg Ludwig Cohn-Levin (born September 19, 1845 in Breslau , † February 16, 1918 in Zurich ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

The son of a businessman studied law at the universities of Breslau and Berlin and received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1868 . From 1868 to 1876 he was in the Prussian judicial service. In 1876 he was at the University of Heidelberg habilitated and 1878 as Associate Professor and in 1886 an honorary professor appointed. In 1892 he became a full professor for German and Swiss legal history as well as German and Swiss private law at the University of Zurich . From 1902 to 1904 he was rector of the University of Zurich. Cohn was a member of the Hamburg Freemason Lodge on Brother Loyalty on the Elbe .

His daughter Elsbeth (1882–1975) became an economist and worked as a teacher and writer, his son Felix (1893–1965) became a neurologist.

Fonts (selection)

  • Quid intersit inter confoederationem civitatum et civitatem confoederatam ex constitutionibus Germaniae, Helvetiae, Americae septentrionalis exponatur. Typis Friderici Hache, Greifswald 1868 (= dissertation , University of Greifswald, 1868).
  • Denial of justice in old German law (= the crimes in the public service according to old German law. Section 1). Braun, Karlsruhe 1876 (= habilitation thesis , University of Leipzig, 1876). Reprint: Keip, Frankfurt am Main 1968.
  • The symbolism in Germanic family law. Zurich 1891.
  • The fight for the bill protest. Berlin 1905.
  • The new German civil law in sayings. 4 parts. Otto Liebmann, Berlin 1896–1900. Reprint: Keip, Goldbach 2001, ISBN 3-8051-0882-6 .

literature

  • Political Science Faculty Zurich: Festschrift for Georg Cohn on his seventieth birthday: In association with friends, students and admirers. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1915. Reprint: Keip, Frankfurt am Main 1989.

Web links

Commons : Georg Cohn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cohn (later: Georgi), Miss Elsbeth (Paula Ottilie) , Matriculation Edition of the University of Zurich.
personal data
SURNAME Cohn, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohn-Levin, Georg Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1918
Place of death Zurich