Hermann Wasserschleben

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Friedrich Wilhelm August Hermann Wasserschleben (born April 22, 1812 in Liegnitz , †  June 27, 1893 in Gießen ) was a legal historian who specialized in canon law of the early Middle Ages. Some of his critical editions and analyzes of canonical texts from the pre-Gratian era still exist today.

Life

Hermann Wasserschleben grew up in a Protestant family in Liegnitz, Lower Silesia, as the son of the Prussian privy councilor Karl Christian and his wife Ninette, née von Rappard, who came from Hamm . After graduating from the Knights' Academy in Liegnitz , Hermann Wasserschleben began studying law in 1831 in Breslau . In 1832 he did military service , after which he moved to Berlin to study , where he completed his studies with a doctorate in 1836 .

He stayed there for the time being, became a private lecturer in law in 1838 and at this point began to deal with the history of pre-Gratian canon law sources. He later moved to Breslau, where he worked as an adjunct professor in 1841 . In 1850 he became a full professor in Halle , where he published his first work on the penal regulations of the Western Church. Two years later he followed a call to Giessen for a professorship for German and canon law. Here he was twice (1860–61 and 1870–71) rector of the university.

In 1873 Hermann Wasserschleben was appointed a member of the first chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for life. In the meantime, from 1875 to 1883, he was an official member of the first chamber as Chancellor of the State University of Gießen. In 1889 he left the Chamber at his own request.

Regardless of his activities as a member of parliament and chancellor, Hermann Wasserschleben remained scientifically active and devoted himself intensively to the origins of canon law. In 1874, for example, the first edition of the text edition of the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis published by him appeared . After the first incomplete edition from 1669 by Luc d'Achery , this was the first complete edition. After the inventory from the first edition was destroyed by a fire in 1884, a second edition of this work was published in 1885 with numerous revisions and reprints of his correspondence with Henry Bradshaw .

Because of his work in the field of canon law, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Protestant theological faculty in Gießen in 1882. In addition, on April 24, 1880, he received the Commander's Cross II. Class of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous and the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Louis .

Works (selection)

An incomplete catalog of works, which, according to the date of publication, only includes publications up to 1880, was published by Friedrich von Schulte . From today's perspective, his text-critical editions and related analyzes and his historical work on canon law are particularly interesting. In addition, he dealt with state church law problems, which also fell during his time as a member of parliament.

  • Contributions to the history of pre-Gratian canon law sources . Leipzig 1839.
  • The penal regulations of the occidental church, together with an introduction to legal history . Halle 1851. An unchanged reprint took place in 1958 in Graz by the Academic Printing and Publishing Company.
  • The Irish Cannon Collection . First edition, Gießen 1874 [ digitized at archive.org / digitized at BSB ]. Second revised and supplemented edition, Leipzig 1885. An unchanged reprint was made in 1966 by the Scienta publishing house in Aalen.
  • The oldest privileges and statutes of the Ludoviciana . Louis Wenzel Book and Stone Printing, Giessen, 1881.
  • German legal sources of the Middle Ages . Veit, Leipzig 1892.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Wasserschleben  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ See https://web.archive.org/web/20070611131447/http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2005/2632/pdf/Ludo5_70-72.pdf
  2. ↑ Cf. Germanistische Chronik . Year 1893, Volume 14, p. 162.
  3. ↑ The penal order of the occidental church, together with a legal historical introduction . Hall 1851.
  4. ↑ The completeness here only refers to the A version , as the text of the B version was not yet available to him, even though Henry Bradshaw later pointed this out to him in his correspondence.
  5. ↑ See Götz.
  6. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1881, p. 52.
  7. ↑ See Schulte, p. 247.
  8. ^ Digitized at Google Books . The current follow-up edition to the Irish penalties is Ludwig Bieler: The Irish Penitentials , Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 1975. However, reference is still made here to the analyzes of aquatic life. See for example p. 15 in the notes on manuscript V.
personal data
SURNAME Wasserschleben, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wasserschleben, Friedrich Wilhelm August Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1893
Place of death to water