Heinrich Demelius

Heinrich Demelius (born November 2, 1893 in Mödling ; † February 6, 1987 in Vienna ) was an Austrian legal historian and professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

Heinrich Demelius was born on November 2, 1893 in Mödling. He was the child of a family of lawyers: his father Ernst Demelius (1859–1904) was professor of civil law in Innsbruck , his grandfather Gustav Demelius (1831–1891) professor of Roman law at the University of Vienna. The other grandfather Heinrich von Bach (1835–1915), who became his guardian after his father's death in 1904 , worked as court counsel in Vienna, his brother Alexander von Bach (1813–1893) was Austrian Minister of Justice in 1848, later the curator of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna . Another uncle of Heinrich Demelius was the politician Eduard von Bach (1815-1884). His great-grandfathers were Gottfried Demelius district judge in Weimar , Michael Bach and Wenzel Kolisko lawyers in Vienna.

Heinrich Demelius graduated from the Hietzinger Gymnasium Fichtnergasse in 1911 . He completed his studies at the law and political science faculty of the University of Vienna in 1916 with a doctorate .

After two years of military service in the Austro-Hungarian Army of World War I , he completed his judicial year in 1919 . The habilitation took place in 1920 under Moritz Wellspacher (1871-1923) for civil law . In 1930 Heinrich Demelius became a professor at the University of Vienna. From 1935 he taught at the Vienna University for World Trade . While teaching at the University of Vienna, he worked as a judge at the Regional Court for Civil Law Matters , and later at the Vienna Commercial Court .

In 1939 Heinrich Demelius took over as the successor to Josef Hupka (1875–1944) as professor for commercial and bill of exchange law and held lectures until the academic year 1945/46. After that, his name is missing in the course catalog. Due to his membership in the NSDAP , he belonged to the group of persons required to register under the Prohibition Act . In the academic year 1947/48 he returned to the faculty and was professor again at the end of 1948. The Faculty of Law in Vienna elected him dean in 1952/53, and again in the 1961/62 academic year. As part of his work at the faculty, he was one of the main sponsors of young scientists, including professors such as Walter Selb and Werner Ogris . In 1962 he became a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Heinrich Demelius retired in 1965. In addition to his teaching activities, one focus of his work was the history of the city of Vienna and its surroundings. From 1950 he was a member of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna and became one of its honorary members.

Heinrich Demelius died on February 6, 1987 in Vienna.

Works

• Austrian land register law: development and individual character. Vienna 1948.
• The Commercial Code of May 10, 1897, provisionally put into effect for Austria . Vienna 1953. (several editions in the following years).
• City judges versus “Die von Wien”. A contribution to the Viennese court system in the 16th century. Vienna 1953.
• Protection of creditors and satisfaction of creditors. A contribution to Austrian cooperative law. Vienna 1955.
• The oldest land register of the city of Graz 1736. In: Mitteilungen des Steiermärkisches Landesarchivs - MStLA 7th year 1957. Pages 18–38.
• King Ferdinand I and the household of the University of Vienna. Graz-Vienna-Cologne 1962.
• Contributions to the budget history of the University of Vienna . In: Walter Pongratz : History of the University Library. Vienna 1965.
• Matrimonial property law in late medieval Vienna. With a list of names of the married couples from the Vienna land register 1438–1473. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Session reports of the philosophical-historical class Volume 265/4. Vienna 1970. ISBN 3-205-03627-1 .
• From the town book of Mautern an der Donau (1432–1550). A contribution to the history of Austrian private law. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Session reports of the philosophical-historical class Volume 277/2. Vienna 1972.
• Niclas Groß against Wolfgang Winter (1459 to 1462). A contribution to the knowledge of the private law relations between Nuremberg and Vienna in the late Middle Ages. In: Messages from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg - MVGN. Volume 60th year 1973.
• Erhart Haidem, judge of Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna, and the princely land registers 1431–1523. A contribution to the history of Austrian private law in the late Middle Ages. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Session reports of the philosophical-historical class Volume 293/1. Vienna 1974.
• The old woman from Vienna. Lecture to the Vienna Legal History Society on December 14, 1976.
• Vienna council rulings of the late Middle Ages. Vienna 1980. ISBN 3-205-08730-5 .

literature

• Gerhard Frotz (Hrsg.), Werner Ogris (Hrsg.): Experienced law in past and present. Festschrift for Heinrich Demelius' 80th birthday. Vienna 1973. ISBN 3-214-06100-3 .
• Margarete Grandner (Ed.): Studying at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Vienna 1945–1955. In: -:  Future with contaminated sites. The University of Vienna 1945 to 1955 . Cross sections, Volume 19, ZDB -ID 2011545-3 . Studien-Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4236-6 , pp. 290-312.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Demelius, Ernst. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 177.
2. ↑ Demelius, Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 177.
3. ↑ Margarete Grandner, page 304. ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 160 kB) 

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Demelius in the catalog of the German National Library