Josef M. Häussling

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Josef Johannes Maria Häußling (born November 7, 1923 in Lambrecht ; † June 3, 2012 ) was a German legal scholar , university professor , rector of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and author.

Life

Josef M. Häußling was a son of the lawyer Aloys Häußling and his wife Maria, geb. Locksmith. The theologian and Benedictine Angelus Häussling was one of the couple's nine children .

Häußling studied at the universities of Mainz , Paris and Lausanne . After a brief activity as an academic advisor at the University of Würzburg , he accepted a call in 1973 at what was then the comprehensive university in Wuppertal to take up a professorship in legal philosophy in the social sciences course . His areas of expertise were crime pedagogy , delinquency prophylaxis and juvenile delinquency ; on the latter topic he published numerous specialist books and organized international congresses, partly in collaboration with experts from the renowned Parisian Sorbonne , at which Häussling was visiting professor for many years.

In 1983, Häußling was elected rector of Wuppertal , succeeding Rainer Gruenter , who was appointed founding rector in 1972 by the state government . After the end of his four-year term of office, he worked as Scientific Director at the private University of Witten / Herdecke .

Häussling spent the last years of his life in the south of France . He was married and had four daughters.

Publications (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. Häußling, Josef M. In: Manfred Wockel, Hans-Joachim WE Schellmann (Ed.): Who's who in the Catholic World. 3rd edition - Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, Vienna 1983.
  2. P. Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Angelus Häußling OSB (April 19, 1932 - July 11, 2017) benediktinerakademie.org. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  3. a b Former Rector Prof. Josef M. Häußling died at the age of 88 in the press archive of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal on June 13, 2012, accessed on April 20, 2020