Heinrich Siegel (legal historian)

Heinrich Siegel

Heinrich Siegel (born April 13, 1830 in Ladenburg , Baden , † June 4, 1899 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian legal historian and professor of German law at the University of Vienna .

origin

His parents were the Grand Ducal Baden General Staff Doctor Joseph Siegel (* October 5, 1790; † March 30, 1870) and his wife Magdalena Heiligenthal (1807-1880). His brother Adolf Bernhard (1828–1905) also became a doctor and worked as a spa doctor in Badenweiler from 1862, while another, Carl (1832–1896), was a lawyer and a secret councilor.

Life

Heinrich Siegel studied in Bonn and Gießen and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. During his studies, Siegel became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn in 1850 .

In 1857 he was appointed professor at the University of Vienna and taught there until 1898. He is considered to be the founder of the Vienna School of Austrian legal historians. From 1863 he was a real member of the Academy of Sciences and from 1886 a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1891 he was appointed a member of the manor house . It was through his initiative that the “Austrian Wisdoms” were published by the Vienna Academy of Sciences , of which he was President, a work that was of great importance for the criticism of German legal sources.

family

In 1864 he married Rosa von Löhner (1844–1921), a daughter of Ludwig von Löhner . The couple had two sons and two daughters, including:

Anna (* 1865) ∞ Dorotheo Giaja (* 1850 in Dubrovnik, † 1914 in Hinterbrühl), ocean captain
Carl, high school teacher
Marie (* 1868) ∞ Franz Gaess (* 1853), chemist

Fonts

The German law of inheritance according to the legal sources of the Middle Ages, presented in its inner context. Bangel and Schmitt, Heidelberg 1853, digitized .
The Germanic kinship calculation with special relation to the successes of inheritance. Habilitation thesis. sn, Giessen 1853, digitized .
History of the German judicial process. Volume 1. J. Ricker, Giessen 1857, digitized .
The promise as an obligation in today's law. A German study. Franz Vahlen, Berlin 1873, digitized .
German legal history. A textbook. Franz Vahlen, Berlin 1886.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Siegel, Heinrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 34th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, pp. 247–250 ( digitized version ).
Georg Frommhold : Heinrich Siegel †. In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung . 4th volume (1899), No. 14, p. 291 f. ( online ).
Gunter Wesener : Heinrich seal. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 236.
Stephan Dusil: Siegel, Heinrich Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 338 f. ( Digitized version ).
Badische Biographien , fourth part, Siegel, Josef , p.444 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Fraternity leaves . Vol. 14, 1900, p. 281.
↑ Proof: the original baptism certificate, marriage certificate and death certificate.
↑ No more published.

personal data
SURNAME	Siegel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal historian and professor of German law at the University of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ladenburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 4, 1899
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Fraternity leaves . Vol. 14, 1900, p. 281.

[2] Proof: the original baptism certificate, marriage certificate and death certificate.

[3] No more published.