Gustave Boissonade

Gustave Boissonade

Gustave Émile Boissonade de Fontarabie (born June 7, 1825 in Vincennes , † June 27, 1910 in Antibes ) was a French legal scholar and advisor in the Japanese Ministry of Justice in the Meiji era .

Life

Gustave Boissonade was born in Vincennes in 1825 as the son of the philologist Jean-François Boissonade . After his doctorate at the law faculty in Paris (1852) and his agrégation (1864) he taught Roman law in Grenoble as an assistant professor until 1867 .

In 1876, Boissonade was appointed professor at the Japanese Ministry of Justice Law School to train Japanese lawyers and help draft laws.

Both the Japanese old Criminal Code of 1880 and the Japanese Criminal Code, both of which came into force in 1882, are based on his drafts. His draft for a Japanese Civil Code from 1890, also called the Boissonadian Draft or old Civil Code, sparked the codification dispute. Like his drafts for the StGB and the StPO, the draft was based heavily on French law , which met with severe criticism from the legal society of the University of Tokyo , which was in turn influenced by English law . The draft, which was supposed to come into force in 1893, was subsequently postponed and the drafting of a Japanese civil code was assigned to a commission consisting of three Japanese law professors ( Hozumi Nobushige , Tomii Masaakira , Ume Kenjirō ).

After working in Japan, he returned to France in 1895 and lived in Antibes until his death in 1910.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Konrad Zweigert, Hein Kötz: Introduction to comparative law in the field of private law . Mohr Siebeck, 1996, ISBN 978-3-16-146548-2 , pp. 291 .

literature

• Michael Stolleis: Jurists: a biographical lexicon: from antiquity to the 20th century . CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-45957-3 .
• Hans-Peter Marutschke: Contributions to modern Japanese legal history . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8305-1240-0 .