Hermann Ferdinand Hitzig

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Hermann Ferdinand Hitzig

Hermann Ferdinand Hitzig (born January 25, 1868 in Burgdorf BE , † July 26, 1911 in Zurich ) was a Swiss legal historian .

life and work

Hermann Ferdinand Hitzig came from a family of scholars in Baden. His grandfather was the Protestant theologian Ferdinand Hitzig (1807–1875), his father Hermann Hitzig (1843–1918) was a grammar school teacher in Bern and later a professor of classical philology at the universities of Bern and Zurich .

Hermann Ferdinand Hitzig attended the municipal high school in Bern, where he passed the Matura examination in 1885 . Since he was too young to enroll at a Swiss university at the age of 17 , he studied French, Greek and Latin at the University of Montpellier . He then moved to the University of Bern , where he stayed after his family moved to Zurich in 1886. During his studies in Bern, Hitzig switched to law and gave private lessons. He continued his studies at the universities of Leipzig and Zurich, where he was awarded the title “summa cum laude” in January 1891 as Dr. jur. received his doctorate .

After completing his doctorate, Hitzig worked for one and a half years as an assistant in a law firm in Winterthur . However, his goal remained the academic career. In June 1892 , he completed his habilitation at the Zurich University of Law, and from then on taught there as a private lecturer in Roman law . Thanks to his teaching success, he rose rapidly at the university: in 1895 he was appointed associate professor and in 1897 full professor. From 1898 to 1900 he served as dean of the law faculty. He declined offers to foreign universities ( Breslau 1907, Strasbourg 1909, Leipzig 1911). For the year 1912 he was in discussion as rector of the University of Zurich; but shortly after the end of the lecture period, on July 26, 1911, he died of the effects of an operation.

Hitzig's research focus was ancient law, in particular Greek lien and Roman criminal law . He presented his research results in numerous small treatises, which were particularly groundbreaking for research into Greek law. In this area he also wrote numerous articles for Paulys Realencyclopädie der Classischen Antiquity (RE).

Fonts (selection)

  • De magistratuum et iudicum Romanorum assessoribus . Bern 1891 (dissertation, University of Zurich)
  • The position of Emperor Hadrian in Roman legal history . Zurich 1892 (inaugural address)
  • The assessors of the Roman magistrates and judges . Munich 1893 (extended version of the dissertation)
  • The Greek lien. A contribution to the history of Greek law . Munich 1895
  • Iniuria. Contributions to the history of the Iniuria in Greek and Roman law . Munich 1899
  • The importance of ancient Greek law for comparative law . Stuttgart 1906
  • The limits of inheritance law . Zurich 1908
  • The origin of the jury court in the Roman criminal process. A hypothesis . Zurich 1909

literature

  • Hans Schuler: Hermann Ferdinand Hitzig . In: New Swiss Review . Volume 9 (1911/12), pp. 440-447
  • Hans Schuler: Hermann Ferdinand Hitzig . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog . 16th Volume, 1911 (1914), pp. 178-182

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Ferdinand Hitzig  - Sources and full texts