Gerhard Thür

Gerhard Thür (born June 3, 1941 in Golling an der Salzach ) is an Austrian legal historian .

Life

Thür attended the Academic Gymnasium in Salzburg, did military service after graduating in 1959, and studied law at the University of Vienna from 1960 . With a scholarship from the DAAD , he studied with Hans Julius Wolff at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1963 and 1965/1966 . In 1964 he presented in Vienna, the state examination, 1965, he was at Fritz Schwind Dr. jur. PhD .

Thür's specialty is Roman law and the legal history of antiquity, especially ancient Greek law . Since 1965 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Roman Law in Vienna, where he was in 1973 for Roman Law and Ancient Legal History habilitated . Since 1974 he has been a member of the Commission for Ancient Legal History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

From 1976 to 1978 Thür represented Herbert Petschow's chair at the University of Munich . On July 1, 1978 he was appointed as his successor (professor for ancient legal history and civil law). In the following year he was appointed a member of the commission for the publication of Greek legal inscriptions of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . From 1984 to 1986 he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Munich.

On November 1, 1992, Thür moved to the University of Graz as a professor of Roman law . After doing a research stay at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from September 1982 to April 1983 , he returned there from January to July 1997. In the same year he was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (April 29) and was appointed chairman of the Commission for Ancient Legal History on November 19. He was visiting professor in Athens (February 1998, November 2000), at Rutgers University (August to October 1998), in Milan (February 1999, June 2000, February 2005), Szeged (September 1999, March 2005, October – November 2010) ), at Brown University (September / October 2002) and at the University of Texas at Austin (January to May 2004, September / October 2008). According to a third stay at the Institute for Advanced Study (January to April 2009), he was 30 September 2009 emeritus . The Law Faculty of the University of Athens awarded him an honorary doctorate on May 27, 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Thür in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gerhard Thür at the Austrian Academy of Science (curriculum vitae and list of publications)