Hans Schreuer

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Hans Franz Philipp Schreuer (born March 3, 1866 in Skutsch , Kingdom of Bohemia , † June 11, 1931 in Bonn ) was a Bohemian legal scholar , legal historian and university professor .

life and work

Schreuer, the son of the later district captain of Jitschin Johann Schreuer , studied law at the German University of Prague from 1884 to 1888 . In 1891 he was sub auspiciis Imperatoris to Dr. iur. obtained his doctorate and then worked until 1898 as a trainee at the Financial Procuratorate in Bohemia. In addition, from 1890 to 1892 he studied German law, commercial law and Germanic and Slavic philology at the University of Berlin . From 1896 he taught as a private lecturer at the German University in Prague, from 1898 as an associate professor for German law and Austrian imperial history. In 1902 he switched to the full professorship for German legal history, German civil law and commercial law at the University of Münster . There he was dean of the law and political science faculty in 1906/07. In 1908 he switched to a professorship for German law at the University of Bonn . In 1929 the University of Münster awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Schreuer mainly researched the early history of the Slavic state formation and the historicity of the old Bohemian sagas, but sometimes not without controversy. He met with fierce criticism , especially with his equating the Czech folk hero Přemysl with the Franconian merchant Samo . In addition, he researched the Germanic royalty and the coronation orders compared to France. His research on old Germanic sacred law worked out the humanization of the Germanic gods originally presented as natural forces. His main work, however, is German private law from 1921 with a strongly comparative law impact. In his research he always took into account sociology, on which he gave his own lectures.

Works (selection)

  • The treatment of crime competition in popular rights . Koebner, Breslau 1896.
  • General conscription, its development and its social significance . Cohen, Bonn 1915.
  • German private law: Introduction to the current civil law with comparative law perspectives . F. Enke, Stuttgart 1921.
  • Germanic and Slavic state formation . 2nd Edition. Scheuer Brothers, Bonn 1928.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Schreuer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schreuer, Hans Franz Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian legal scholar, legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Skutsch , Kingdom of Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1931
Place of death Bonn