Josef Berchtold (lawyer, 1833)

Josef (or Joseph) Berchtold (born September 20, 1833 in Murnau , † October 22 or 23, 1894 in Munich ) was a German lawyer , professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , whose rector and advocate of Old Catholicism for a few days in Germany and Bavaria.

Life and academic career

Josef Berchtold came from a brewing family in Murnau. He was the youngest of seven children of the brewer Karl Theodor Berchtold and the day laborer's daughter Maria Eva Rendl. After the death of his father in 1838, he was accepted by the Munich teacher Walburga Müller through the mediation of the pastor of Murnau. In 1852 he passed the Abitur at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich as the best of his year and then studied philosophy and law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, supported from 1856 by a royal scholarship.

In 1857 he passed the first state examination in law with a satisfactory result and then continued his studies in Göttingen , Berlin and Munich. In 1860, after practical work at the Royal District Court in Munich and at the Royal District Court in Munich , he achieved a good result in the second state law examination as the eleventh-best of 58 candidates . He received his doctorate on May 31, 1862 with a thesis on the sovereignty of Austria to the doctor of both rights and habilitated on July 28, 1863 at the Ludwig Maximilians University with a thesis on the development of sovereignty in Germany.

He was then appointed as a private lecturer . During this time he worked as a private tutor and legal advisor for extra income , including for Otto von Bayern and Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst . On October 25, 1867, he was appointed as associate professor for canon law and, to ward off an appeal to Prague , on April 16, 1873 as full professor. From 1868 until the attainment of full professorship Berchtold was also professor of heads of state and international law at the Bavarian War Academy . In 1894 he was rector of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich for a week until his death due to a colon ulcer ; his predecessors and successors were Alois Knöpfler and August von Bechmann .

Josef Berchtold is buried in the Old Northern Cemetery in Munich.

Josef Berchtold and Old Catholicism

Josef Berchtold was a prominent representative and defender of early Old Catholicism. In his legal work he dealt with the effects of ultramontanism on the position of the Catholic Church in Bavaria and Germany. He was also a member of various committees of the Old Catholic Church such as the Bavarian State Association and participated in developments in the Old Catholic Church such as the discussion on the synodal and community order of 1873.

Individual evidence

^ Karl Bosl (Ed.): Bavarian Biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries. Entry Berchtold, Joseph. Publisher Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1983.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Moritz Waibel : Josef Berchtold (1833–1894). A life against ultramontanism. Dissertation. Legal history series, No. 355. Frankfurt, 2007. ISBN 978-3-631-56891-0 . Summarized in: A lawyer for the Old Catholics in Bavaria. Josef Berchtold (1833-1894). Website of the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany (accessed November 2, 2017).
^ ^A ^b Johann Friedrich von Schulte: Entry Berchtold, Josef. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 46 (1902), pp. 367-368, digital full-text edition in Wikisource.
↑ ^a ^b project Who is who in German law . Entry Berchtold, Josef. Gerhard Köbler's website (accessed November 2, 2017).
^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Website of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (accessed November 2, 2017).
↑ Werner Ebnet : You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries. Entry Berchtold, Joseph, Dr. jur. Verlag Allitera, 2016. ISBN 9783869069111 .

personal data
SURNAME	Berchtold, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berchtold, Joseph (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, university professor, rector of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and representative of Old Catholicism
DATE OF BIRTH	September 20, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Murnau am Staffelsee , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	October 22, 1894 or October 23, 1894
Place of death	Munich , Germany

[1] Karl Bosl (Ed.): Bavarian Biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries. Entry Berchtold, Joseph. Publisher Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1983.

[altkatholisch-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Moritz Waibel : Josef Berchtold (1833–1894). A life against ultramontanism. Dissertation. Legal history series, No. 355. Frankfurt, 2007. ISBN 978-3-631-56891-0 . Summarized in: A lawyer for the Old Catholics in Bavaria. Josef Berchtold (1833-1894). Website of the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany (accessed November 2, 2017).

[ADB-3] A ^b Johann Friedrich von Schulte: Entry Berchtold, Josef. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 46 (1902), pp. 367-368, digital full-text edition in Wikisource.

[Köbler-4] roject Who is who in German law . Entry Berchtold, Josef. Gerhard Köbler's website (accessed November 2, 2017).

[5] Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Website of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (accessed November 2, 2017).

[6] Werner Ebnet : You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries. Entry Berchtold, Joseph, Dr. jur. Verlag Allitera, 2016. ISBN 9783869069111 .