Josef Esser (legal scholar)

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Josef Esser (born March 12, 1910 in Schwanheim am Main , today part of Frankfurt am Main ; † July 21, 1999 in Tübingen ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Josef Esser passed his Abitur in Frankfurt in 1928 and studied law there. After passing the state examination, Esser worked as the municipal lawyer in Mönchengladbach from 1936 to 1940. In 1935 he received his doctorate with a thesis on civil law; the expert was Ernst von Hippel . Esser completed his habilitation in 1940 on "Basics and development of strict liability ", also with Hippel. Esser taught at the universities of Greifswald (1941 to 1943), Innsbruck (1943 to 1949) and Mainz (1949 to 1961) and worked as head of the legal department of the International Atomic Energy Agency before accepting a position at the University of Tübingen in 1961. He taught here until his retirement in 1977, but refused calls to Vienna, Bonn, Freiburg and Konstanz. In 1973 he was accepted as a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

His best-known work is a textbook on the law of obligations , which has had several editions and is continued by his students. Esser's main research areas were general law of obligations, methodology and comparative law. Its importance was justified by his methodical and legal theoretical work, such as principle and norm in judicial legal training (1956) and pre-understanding and choice of method in legal development (1970).

literature

  • Stefan Vogel: Josef Esser - bridge builder between theory and practice . wvb, science Verl., Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86573-485-3 , zugl .: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2008.
  • Johannes Köndgen: Josef Esser - border crosser between dogmatics and methodology . In: Stefan Grundmann , Karl Riesenhuber (Hrsg.): German-speaking civil law teachers of the 20th century in reports of their students (2007). Volume 1, de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 9783899494563 , p. 103ff Google books
  • Johannes Köndgen: Josef Esser: Methodologist between theory and practice . In: JuristenZeitung 2001, pp. 807–813.
  • Eberhard Picker: Josef Esser (1910–1999) in: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 1999, Heidelberg 2000, p. 171f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Molitor : The Greifswald Faculty of Law. In: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald. Volume 2. Greifswald 1956, p. 17.
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Josef Esser. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Esser, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1999
Place of death Tübingen