Heinrich Honsell

Heinrich Honsell (2015)

Heinrich Honsell (born July 28, 1942 in Munich ) is a lawyer with German and Austrian citizenship .

Life

Heinrich Honsell received his doctorate in 1969 from the University of Munich under Wolfgang Kunkel . 1972 followed the habilitation with Karl Larenz (1903-1993). In the same year he started working at Bielefeld University , where he remained as a professor of civil law until 1977. He then taught private law and Roman law at the University of Salzburg until 1989 and then moved to the University of Zurich , where he retired as Professor for Swiss and European Private Law on August 31, 2007 .

From 1993 to 2003 Honsell was a member of the board of directors of the German Association of Civil Law Teachers ; from 1999 he held the post of the executive board. Honsell is also a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna .

In addition to numerous other publications, Honsell is editor and co-author of the Basel Commentaries on Swiss Private Law, von Staudinger's Commentary on the German Civil Code and a commentary on the UN Sales Convention .

Awards

2015: Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Honsell - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Heinrich Honsell in the catalog of the German National Library
resume

Individual evidence

↑ University of Vienna: This Honorum 2015: honorary doctorates and Promotion "sub auspiciis" ( Memento of 22 April 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 22, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Honsell, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German and Austrian legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich

[1] University of Vienna: This Honorum 2015: honorary doctorates and Promotion "sub auspiciis" ( Memento of 22 April 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 22, 2015.