Gustav Hanausek

Gustav Hanausek (born September 4, 1855 in Groß-Rauschenbach / Nagy-Röcze , Gemer and Kleinhont county , Kingdom of Hungary , † September 11, 1927 in Karlsbad , Bohemia ) was an Austrian legal scholar.

Life

Gustav Hanausek attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, Vienna, Berlin and Göttingen. Doctorate at the University of Vienna in 1877. In the spring of 1879 , Hanausek completed his habilitation at the law faculty of the University of Vienna with the study "The doctrine of improper usufruct " for Roman law . In 1883 he became an unpaid, in 1885 paid associate professor for Roman law at the University of Vienna, in 1892 a full professor of Roman law at the German University in Prague, and in 1893 a full professor at the University of Graz . There he taught Roman law for thirty-three years, and since the winter semester 1911/12 also commercial and bill of exchange law. Hanausek was dean of the Graz law faculty in the academic years 1898/99 and 1921/22, rector of the University of Graz in 1907/08. Friends and students brought him a commemorative publication on his 70th birthday in 1925: “Treatises on Ancient Legal History”.

Hanausek was a pandectist and dogmatist of private law . In several writings he dealt with university pedagogical problems, in particular with the legal study and examination regulations. His seminar has achieved lasting influence and notoriety. His students include the Romanists Leopold Wenger , Paul Koschaker , Mariano San Nicolò , Artur Steinwenter and Julius G. Lautner , as well as the Germanists Karl Rauch and Max Rintelen and the civil lawyer Ernst Swoboda .

Fonts

• The doctrine of improper usufruct under Roman law . Erlangen 1879.
• The seller's liability for the quality of the goods according to Roman and common law with special consideration of commercial law . 2 Abth., Berlin 1883–1887.
• The legal inheritance law of the spouse according to the amendments to the general civil code . Vienna 1917.
• The reorganization of legal studies and state examinations in Austria . Vienna 1915.

literature

• Gustav Hanausek: Experienced and Thought . Graz 1926.
• Leopold Wenger : Obituary. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History , Romance Studies Department 48 (1928). Pages 803 f.
• Hanausek Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 173 f. (Direct links on p. 173 , p. 174 ).
• Gunter Wesener : Roman Law and Natural Law In: History of the Law Faculty of the University of Graz, 1st part. Publications from the archive of the University of Graz. Volume 9. Graz 1978. ISBN 3-201-01059-6 . Pages 98-101.
• Gunter Wesener: Gustav Hanausek (1855–1927) and his students. The Hanausek seminar. In: Peter Mach, Matej Pekarik, Vojtech Vladár (eds.): Constans et Perpetua Voluntas. Pocta Petrovi Blahovi k 75th Narodeninám. Trnava 2014. ISBN 978-80-8082-764-9 . Pages 693-722.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Hanausek in the catalog of the German National Library