Heinrich Otto Lehmann

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Heinrich Otto Lehmann (born October 28, 1852 in Kiel , † January 27, 1904 in Marburg ) was a German legal scholar and legal historian . He was a professor of law at the universities in Kiel , Gießen and Marburg .

Life

family

Heinrich Otto Lehmann was born as the son of Theodor Lehmann (1824–1862). His father was a Holstein lawyer and politician. In 1851 he married Caroline Amalie (1824-1856), the daughter of the psychiatrist Peter Willers Jessen and mother of Heinrich Otto. His paternal great-uncle was the botanist Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792–1860).

Professional background

Heinrich Otto lost both parents at an early age and initially grew up with his uncle, a Rendsburg pharmacist. He attended grammar school in Rendsburg and began training as a pharmacist in Berlin in 1871 , which he soon gave up. From 1872 he studied law at the universities in Greifswald , Heidelberg and Berlin . In January 1877, Lehmann passed the second state examination in law at Berlin University . He went back to Rendsburg and took a position as a trainee lawyer there.

In December 1877 a doctorate Lehmann at the University of Kiel to Dr. jur. with the dissertation The supply of war control goods to warring countries by neutrals, historically and in principle. Because of a serious fall with internal injuries, he had to interrupt his academic career for a long time. Only in July 1882, he could at Kiel University as a lecturer with the habilitation legal protection against interventions by state officials after altfränkischem legal habilitation . As early as 1881 he was employed there as a university judge and in 1885 he was appointed associate professor for legal encyclopedia, German law and international law. In March 1888 he accepted the call to the University of Giessen as a full professor of law.

Just one year later, in 1889, Lehmann was appointed full professor at the University of Marburg. He held lectures on German legal history, legal encyclopedia, canon law, German private law with commercial, maritime and bill of exchange law. In 1892, 1896 and 1901 he was dean of the law faculty at Marburg University and was appointed its rector in 1898 . For a long time Lehmann was also a member of the city council of Marburg . Because of his merits, he received the title of Privy Councilor on January 6, 1902 .

Lehmann was the author of numerous specialist publications. His textbook on German bill of exchange law was published in 1886 and, from 1896 to 1900, his revision of Otto Stobbe's Handbook of German Private Law (Volumes 2 to 4). After the Civil Code came into force on January 1, 1900, Lehmann and Ludwig Enneccerus published the textbook Civil Law , the second edition of which appeared in 1901. He also published articles in Grenzbote , the National-Zeitung , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung .

He died on January 27, 1904, at the age of 51, in Marburg and was buried in the Marburg main cemetery.

marriage

Heinrich Otto Lehmann married Karoline Friederike Amalie Jessen (1855–1943) in Berlin in 1880, the daughter of the botanist Carl Jessen .

Publications (selection)

  • The supply of war contraband was presented historically and in principle by neutrals to warring countries. ( Dissertation ) Kiel 1877.
  • Legal protection against interference by state officials according to old Franconian law. ( Habilitation thesis ) Kiel 1882.
  • Textbook of German bill of exchange law. With consideration of Austrian and Swiss law. Stuttgart 1886.
  • Catholic and Protestant canon law. Giessen 1889.
  • On the theory of securities. Marburg 1890.
  • Sources on German imperial and legal history. Berlin 1891.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5693, p. 61 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Heinrich Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1904
Place of death Marburg