Gustav Pescatore

Gustav Pescatore (born August 15, 1850 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † March 11, 1916 in Greifswald ) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Gustav Pescatore was the son of a Landsberg lawyer. He studied from 1870 to 1874 in Berlin, Heidelberg and Marburg. He received his doctorate in Marburg in 1875 and became an associate professor there in 1881. Then he was full professor at the University of Giessen . In April 1884 he was appointed professor of Roman law and civil litigation at the University of Greifswald . In 1893 he was elected rector of the university. In April 1915 he had to retire due to a serious illness.

His only son died in the First World War in 1914 . His daughter Anni (1884–1947) became an art historian.

Fonts (selection)

• The so-called alternative obligation. Elwert, Marburg 1880 ( digitized version ).
• The glosses of Irnerius . Abel, Greifswald 1888 ( digitized version ).
• Placentini Summa “Cum essem Mantue” siue de accionum uarietatibus (= contributions to medieval legal history. 5, ZDB -ID 539420-X = scientific supplement to the course catalog of the University of Greifswald. Michaelis 1897). sn, Greifswald 1987, ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).
• Miscelles. (On the legal history of the 12th, 13th and 16th centuries) (= scientific supplement to the course catalog of the University of Greifswald. Autumn 1901, ZDB -ID 1072652-4 ). sn, Greifswald 1901, ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).
• The optional obligations (= treatises on private law and civil litigation of the German Reich. Vol. 13, no . 1, ZDB -ID 501698-8 ). Beck, Munich 1905, ( digitized version ).
• The Distinction Collection of Ms. Bonon. College Hisp. No. 73. Festschrift of the University of Greifswald on the change of rectorate on May 15, 1913. sn, Greifswald 1913, ( digitized ).

Web links

• Literature about Gustav Pescatore in the Landesbibliographie MV
• Pescatore, Johannes Bernhard Gustav. Hessian biography. (As of March 11, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Helferich	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1893	Eduard Koschwitz