Hans Fehr (lawyer)
Hans Fehr (born September 9, 1874 in St. Gallen ; † November 21, 1961 in Muri near Bern ) was a Swiss legal historian.
Life
Fehr studied law at the universities of Würzburg, Bonn, Berlin and Bern. From 1894 he was a member of the Corps Nassovia Würzburg . After his habilitation in Leipzig in 1904, his scientific career first took him to the University of Jena (1906). The Friedrichs University in Halle appointed him to its chair in 1912 . In 1917 he followed the call of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1924 he moved to his last place of work in Bern.
In addition to his investigations into civil law and legal history, Fehr became significant primarily through his analyzes of the relationship between law and art, i.e. at the interface between legal iconography and legal folklore . He published a three-volume cycle on this subject.
At a young age, Fehr became acquainted with Emil Nolde in St. Gallen , with whom he was taking drawing lessons. From this a deep friendship developed that would last for over 60 years. In difficult times, Fehr was one of the few who supported Nolde with encouragement and donations. After Nolde's death, Fehr dedicated a biography to his friend, which was also his last book of his own.
On Fehr's 70th birthday in 1944, his students and companions honored him with a celebratory gift under the heading Art and Law , which, due to the political situation, could not appear until 1948.
Selected Works
- German legal history (created 1914–1918)
- Hammurabi and Salic Law (1910)
- Right in the picture (1923)
- The Law in German Folksong (1926)
- The Law in Poetry (1931)
- Legal Folklore (1936)
- Poetry in Law (1937)
- Law in the sagas of Switzerland (1955)
- Emil Nolde, A Book of Friendship (1957)
literature
- Rolf Lieberwirth: Art. Fehr, Hans (1874-1961) . In: Albrecht Cordes , Heiner Lück , Dieter Werkmüller , Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand (Eds.), Concise Dictionary of German Legal History , 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition, Volume I, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2008, Sp. 1451–1452. ISBN 978-3-503-07912-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Fehr in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of the courses of Hans Fehr (lawyer) at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1905 to winter semester 1906)
- Entry on Hans Fehr in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 208/501
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fehr, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss legal historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1961 |
| Place of death | Muri near Bern |