Ivo Pfaff

Ivo Pfaff (born September 16, 1864 in Sibiu , † August 25, 1925 in Graz ) was an Austrian legal historian.

Life

Ivo Pfaff, the son of the Viennese civil law professor Leopold Pfaff (1837-1914), attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and from 1882 studied law at the University of Vienna (especially with Franz Hofmann ). After the state examination (1886), Pfaff was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . He achieved his habilitation in 1892 with the work on the teaching of the so-called in fraudem legis agere .

As early as 1894, Pfaff was appointed Associate Professor of Law at the University of Innsbruck . In 1895 he moved to the German University of Prague in the same capacity , where he succeeded Ludwig Mitteis . In Prague, Pfaff was appointed full professor in 1898 and elected dean of the law faculty in 1903/1904. The later Emperor Charles I was one of his most famous Prague students .

In 1908 Pfaff moved to the University of Graz as the successor to Leopold Wenger as a full professor of Roman law , where he taught and researched until his death. In 1911/1912 and 1922/1923 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law, in 1914/1915 Rector of the University.

Ivo Pfaff wrote numerous papers on Roman law, the legal history of sources and literature in the Middle Ages, and Austrian private law. His students include Mariano San Nicolò , Artur Steinwenter , Egon Weiß and Julius Georg Lautner (1896–1972).

Fonts (selection)

• On the doctrine of the so-called in fraudem legis agere . Vienna 1892 (habilitation thesis)
• About the libertus orcinus . Vienna 1893
• About the legal protection of the economically weaker in the Roman imperial legislation . Weimar 1897 ( research on social history 3)
• Tabellio and Tabularius. A contribution to the doctrine of the Roman notaries . Vienna 1905
• The importance of papyrus research for Roman law . Vienna 1906
• Bernhard Walther von Walthersweil as a Romanist in the 16th century . Vienna 1918

literature

• Elisabeth Berger:  Pfaff, Ivo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 295 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Gunter Wesener :  Pfaff, Ivo. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 23 f. (Direct links on p. 23 , p. 24 ).
• Gunter Wesener , Roman Law and Natural Law (= History of the Law Faculty of the University of Graz, Part 1), Graz 1978, pp. 86–89

Web links

Wikisource: Ivo Pfaff  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Ivo Pfaff in the catalog of the German National Library