Heinrich Brunner (legal historian)
Heinrich Brunner (born June 21, 1840 in Wels , Upper Austria ; † August 11, 1915 Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia ) was an Austrian legal historian .
Life
He was the son of the Linz governor Wenzel Brunner (?? - 1856) and his wife Josepha (1816– ??). After attending grammar school in Linz (1851–1858) and passing his Abitur with distinction (August 11, 1858), Brunner studied law at the University of Vienna from October 4 of the same year , supported by a scholarship . On July 19, 1860, he passed the legal historical state examination in Roman law with distinction .
Heinrich Siegel has now won him over to study German law. On April 8, 1864 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD in both rights . On August 5, 1865, Brunner completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Law in Vienna . On April 22, 1866 he became an associate professor at the German University of Lemberg and on November 15, 1868 full professor of German law.
On October 1, 1870, he accepted a call to the University of Prague . On April 20, 1872 he went to the new University of Strasbourg , but followed the call to Berlin at Easter 1873 with appointment on December 4, 1872. In 1896 and 1897 he was temporarily also rector of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1896 Brunner became president of the founding commission of the German legal dictionary (DRW).
On June 3, 1876, Brunner married Anna von Tiedemann (* April 13, 1848, † December 13, 1912), the daughter of Tiedemann's secret councilor, in Merseburg . The couple had six sons and two daughters, but both girls and the youngest son died in childhood.
In July 1915, jaundice and the associated stomach ailment made him very troubled, which is why he started a cure in Bad Kissingen. There he died on August 11th and was buried on August 14th in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Schöneberg near Berlin at the side of his wife. The grave has not been preserved.
Honors
- On July 3, 1884, Brunner was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
- In 1891 he became a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
- On January 24, 1896, he was awarded the Pour le mérite for sciences and arts .
- 1896 Awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .
- In 1897 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
- On October 11, 1910, he was appointed Real Privy Councilor with the title of Excellency .
- On January 27, 1912, he was elected as a member of the Prussian mansion until 1915 .
- In addition, Brunner received numerous domestic and foreign awards, decorations and honorary doctorates and became a member of science academies in several countries.
- His hometown Wels made him an honorary citizen .
Works
- The Babenbergs' right of exemption . Karl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1864 ( digitized version [accessed on July 2, 2013]).
- German legal history (= Systematic Handbook of German Law ). 2nd Edition. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1906, DNB 450655083 (two volumes).
- The origin of the jury courts . Weidmann, Berlin 1871, DNB 456210261 ( digital copy [accessed on July 2, 2013] reprint of the original edition: Scientia, Aalen 1967).
- Basics of German legal history . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1901, DNB 579264734 ( digitized version of the 1927 edition [accessed on July 2, 2013]).
- Research on the history of German and French law . Collected Essays. Cotta, Stuttgart 1894, DNB 579264718 ( table of contents as PDF document; 185 kB [accessed on July 2, 2013]).
- Karl Rauch (ed.): Treatises on legal history. Collected essays . Böhlau, Weimar 1931, DNB 560385935 .
literature
- Brunner Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 121.
- Karl Siegfried Bader: Brunner, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 682 ( digitized version ).
- Brunner, Heinrich. In: Gerd Kleinheyer , Jan Schröder (ed.): German and European lawyers from nine centuries. 5th edition. Heidelberg 2008, p. 488.
- Festschrift for Heinrich Brunner's seventieth birthday. Offered by students and admirers. Verlag Böhlau, Weimar 1910 (reprint: Verlag Keip, Frankfurt am Main 1987).
- Johannes Liebrecht: Heinrich Brunner (1840–1915). In: Stefan Grundmann , Michael Kloepfer , Christoph G. Paulus , Rainer Schröder , Gerhard Werle (Eds.): Festschrift 200 Years of the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Past, present and future. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-89949-629-1 , pp. 305–326.
- Karl Siegfried Bader : About a call from Heinrich Brunner to Zurich. In: ZRG (GA) . 95 (1978), p. 186 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 300.
- ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Brunner at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 21, 2016.
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Brunner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Heinrich Brunner in the German Digital Library
- Works (as digital copies and full text) by Heinrich Brunner in the German Text Archive .
- Detailed biography
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Publications by Heinrich Brunner in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
- Index of the cited legal sources on Heinrich Brunner's German legal history. (University of Cologne, project edition of the Franconian rulers' decrees. )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brunner, Heinrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German legal historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1840 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wels (city) , Upper Austria |
DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1915 |
Place of death | Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia |