Gerhard Dilcher

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Gerhard Dilcher (born February 14, 1932 in Schlüchtern ) is a German legal historian .

Gerhard Dilcher studied law from 1950 to 1955 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, taking the first and second state examinations. In Frankfurt he received his doctorate in 1960 with a thesis supervised by Adalbert Erler on the subject of pair formulas in the legal language of the early Middle Ages. He was then a research fellow for several years at the German Historical Institute in Rome . In 1966 he completed his habilitation in German legal history and civil law with a legal history thesis on the Italian urban communes of the Middle Ages. From 1967 to 1972 he taught as a professor of German legal history and civil law at the Free University of Berlin . From 1972 until his retirement in 1998 he was Professor of German Legal History, Canon Law and Civil Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Dilcher was visiting professor at the University of Florida in 1986 and 1996, and in 1998 at the University of Tokyo. From 1999 to 2004 he held a visiting professorship at the University of Trento ; there he organized three international conferences on the history of public law in 2006, 2007 and 2009 together with Diego Quaglioni . Since then he has been teaching there at the Scuola del Dottorato. From 2007 to 2017 he was a member and chairman of the advisory board of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster. Dilcher has been a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 2007 . From 1985 to 1989 he was chairman of the Association for Constitutional History . In February 2018, he was University of Naples Federico II the legal honorary doctorate awarded.

Dilcher's research focuses on the German and European legal history of the Middle Ages and modern times, especially the history of the medieval urban commune in Germany and Italy. In recent years, Dilcher has been researching mainly on orality, legal habits and legislation of the Germanic peoples in the early Middle Ages as well as on state formation and the emergence of public law from the Staufer period to the 19th century. In addition, in 2008 Max Weber's dissertation History of Trading Companies was edited according to southern European sources . Another focus is the history of law in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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  • Albrecht Cordes, Joachim Rückert, Reiner Schulze (eds.): City - community - cooperative. Festschrift for Gerhard Dilcher on his 70th birthday. Schmidt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-503-06163-0 , pp. 457-490.
  • since 2002/03 compiled by Melanie Reuter in: Susanne Lepsius, Reiner Schulze, Bernd Kannowski (eds.): Law - History - Historiography. Legal and constitutional history in the German-Italian discourse (= treatises on basic legal research in Munich university publications. Faculty of Law. Volume 95). Schmidt, Berlin 2014, ISBN 3-503-13798-X , pp. 269-275.

Collection of articles

  • Norms between orality and written culture. Studies on the medieval concept of law and Lombard law. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20120-3 .

Monographs

  • The Germanists and the Historical School of Law. Civil science between romanticism, realism and rationalization (= studies on European legal history. Vol. 301). Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 3-465-04287-5 .
  • with Karl S. Bader : German legal history. Country and city, citizens and farmers in ancient Europe. Springer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-540-66307-X .
  • Citizenship and City Constitution in the European Middle Ages. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-02696-4 .
  • The creation of the Lombard city commune. A legal historical investigation (= investigations into the German state and legal history. NF 7). Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1967 (partly also: Frankfurt am Main, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1965–1966).
  • Pair formulas in the legal language of the early Middle Ages. Frotscher, Darmstadt 1961 (Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 1960) ( online ).

Editorships

  • with Susanne Lepsius : Max Weber: On the history of trading companies in the Middle Ages. Writings 1889–1894 (= Max Weber. Complete edition . Department 1, Vol. 1). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149494-9 .
  • with Eva-Marie Distler: Leges - Gentes - Regna. On the role of the Germanic legal customs and Latin writing tradition in the development of the early medieval legal culture. Schmidt, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-503-07973-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dilcher, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Schluechtern