Georg Petschek

Georg Petschek (born July 20, 1872 in Kolín , † September 5, 1947 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an Austrian legal scholar .

He came from the famous Bohemian - Jewish industrial family Petschek .

In 1890, Petschek began studying law at what was then Karl Ferdinand University in Prague , which he graduated in 1894. In 1896 Petschek received his doctorate in Prague and then accepted a position in the Prussian civil service. Parallel to his employment at the court in Halle an der Saale , he took up a post- doctoral degree . In 1902 Petschek completed his habilitation on the subject of “Austrian civil court proceedings” in Prague and in 1904 was appointed adjunct professor. From 1907 Petschek worked as an associate professor at the university in Czernowitz, Galicia .

After his renewed habilitation in 1920, he took over the chair for civil procedural law at the University of Vienna as a full professor, where he was full professor until 1938.

After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany , Georg Petschek fled to the USA , where he worked at the Harvard School of Law until his death .

Fonts

• Legal cases from civil procedure law , 1928

literature

• HW carnival:  Petschek Georg. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 8 f. (Direct links on p. 8 , p. 9 ).