Hans Erich Troje

Hans Erich Troje (born April 28, 1934 in Göttingen ; † October 11, 2017 in Kelkheim ) was a German legal scholar .

The son of pastor Kurt Troje passed the Abitur at the humanistic Max Planck Gymnasium in Göttingen at Easter 1954. He first studied theology and then law in Göttingen (until 1955), Berlin (1955–57) and Freiburg im Breisgau (1957–1959). It was in 1961 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in Fritz Pringsheim to the doctor of jurisprudence doctorate . Before completing his doctorate, he married Elisabeth Heimpel, the daughter of the historian Hermann Heimpel . From 1964 to 1971 he worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History , whose directors Helmut Coing and Dieter Simon were his academic teachers. He completed his habilitation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1969. In 1971 he became professor for Roman law, German legal history, legal theory and civil law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Troje's main research interests were particularly humanistic jurisprudence , but also legal didactics and family law . From 1983 to 1991 Troje was a family judge at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court .

Fonts (selection)

Graeca leguntur. The appropriation of Byzantine law and the emergence of a humanistic corpus iuris civilis in jurisprudence of the 16th century (research on the modern history of private law 18). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1971.
Stolen love - On the problem of saving marriage (problemata 120). frommannholzboog, Stuttgart 1988.
Stolen love. On the archeology of marriage - a rescue attempt. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-35052-0 .
Humanistic Jurisprudence. Studies on European law under the influence of humanism (= Bibliotheca Eruditorum. International Library of Science. Vol. 6). Goldbach, Keip 1993.
"Illusione" - a scholarly novel. Bodenheim, Syndicate 1993.
The unbelievable of women. On the uniqueness of Michelangelo Antonioni; Chronicle of a love. Neuried, ars una 1995.
Opposing positions. Aspects of the future of marriage and family (= legal history and gender research. Vol. 10). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20342-9 .
Crisis digestorum. Studies on historia pandectarum (= studies on European legal history, publications by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Vol. 264). Klostermann, Frankfurt 2011.

Stephan Meder: Hans Erich Troje (April 28, 1934– October 11, 2017). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Romance Studies Department. 136, 2019, pp. 587-595.