Hans Lewald
Hans Lewald (born May 29, 1883 in Leipzig , † November 10, 1963 in Basel ) was a German legal scholar .
Life
Hans Lewald attended the Thomasschule in Leipzig where he passed his Abitur. He then studied mathematics first , but then switched to law studies at the universities of Leipzig , Lausanne , Berlin , Munich and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1908 Hans Lewald received his doctoral thesis at the University of Leipzig, Contributing to the knowledge of the Graeco-Egyptian land register law for Dr. iur. PhD with summa cum laude . In 1910 Lewald completed his habilitation at the University of Würzburg .
From 1911 he was associate professor and in 1913 full professor at the University of Lausanne (successor to Paul Koschaker ). In 1915 he received a call to Frankfurt am Main and from 1920 he taught at the University of Cologne as a full professor of Roman law . After the university was re-established in 1919, the Faculty of Law was opened on January 9, 1920, initially with five full professorships. He soon left Cologne and followed a call to Frankfurt again in 1923. From 1932 to 1935 Lewald also taught civil law and international private law at the Berlin University .
At the end of September 1935 he was dismissed from the Prussian civil service at his request. This was preceded by a call to the University of Basel for a professorship for legal history and private law in June . "In admiration with German greetings Ew. Spectability more devoted ”, Lewald assured the dean that the task of his Berlin professorship would be very difficult for him. In 1953 Lewald retired, but still taught as an honorary professor in Freiburg and Frankfurt.
family
He was the son of Carl Lewald (1843–1924), Dr. jur. Lawyer at the Imperial Court in Leipzig and Henriette Köster (1854–1924). His grandfather was Ernst Anton Lewald (1788–1848, baptized 1805), Prof. Dr. phil., professor of theology in Heidelberg. He was a descendant of the Hanoverian court factor Michael David .
Honors
Lewald received honorary doctorates (Dr. jur. Hc) from six universities. He was also a member of the Institut de droit international in Ghent and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in Berlin.
Publications (selection)
- Contributions to the knowledge of the Roman-Egyptian land register law . Dissertation 1908
- On the execution of personnel in the law of papyri . 1910 (habilitation thesis)
- German international private law . 1931
- Conflits des lois dans le monde grec et romain . 1946
- Festschrift Hans Lewald . Ed .: M. Gerwig, A. Simonius, K. Spiro, Theodor Süss, Ernst Wolff. 1953
literature
- Karl-Heinz Below: Lewald, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 411 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Leonie Breunung, Manfred Walther: The emigration of German legal scholars from 1933 - A bio-bibliographical handbook . De Gruyter Saur ( books.google.de )
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Lewald in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on doctoral studies corrected after publications of the Neue Deutsche Biographie
Heinrich Erman (1887–1902) | Ludwig Kuhlenbeck (1902–1908) | Max Pagenstecher (1909) | Hans Lewald (1913–1915) | Karl Haff (1910–1918) | Suspension (1918-1928) | Heinrich Erman (1928–1933) | Otto Riese (1935–1951) | Bernhard Aubin (1951–1957) | Karl Heinz Neumayer (1957–1966) | Hans-Joachim Mertens (1967–1971) | Ulrich Immenga (1971–1975) | Fritz Sturm (1977–1999) | Andreas Heinemann (2001-2007) | Christian Kersting (summer semester 2007) | Götz Schulze (2008–2012) | Christoph A. Kern (since 2013)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lewald, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1963 |
| Place of death | Basel |