Julius Baron

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Julius Baron (born January 1, 1834 in Festenberg , † June 9, 1898 in Bonn ) was a German legal scholar , legal historian and pundit . Baron was professor of law at the universities in Berlin , Greifswald , Bern and Bonn .

Life

Julius Baron came from a Jewish family . From 1845 to 1851 he attended the Oelser Gymnasium and the Maria Magdalenen Gymnasium in Breslau . After studying law at the universities in Breslau and Berlin , Baron received his doctorate in June 1855 at the Berlin University with the dissertation De iudiciorum constitutione in veteris Saxoniae urbibus to a doctorate in both rights .

In 1859 he was accepted into the Prussian judicial service as an assessor . As such, he was employed at the Berlin City Court and the Prussian Ministry of Justice. As a member of the Ministry of Justice, he was involved in drafting the new code of civil procedure . In April 1860 he completed his habilitation at the law faculty of the University of Berlin as a private lecturer for Roman law and Prussian land law . In the same year he published his treatises from Prussian law and, in 1864, The General Law Relationships in Roman Law . In 1866 he asked for his discharge from the judicial service in order to devote himself entirely to his academic career.

In 1869 he received an extraordinary professorship at the Berlin University. Despite his teaching activities, he found time for further legal publications. In 1872 his well-respected textbook Pandekten was published , which he edited and expanded again and again and which had nine editions, and in 1874 The Marriage in Old and New Laws . In 1873 he was co-author of the festschrift for the legal scholar August Wilhelm Heffter .

At Easter 1880, Baron accepted the call as a full professor of law at the University of Greifswald. During his time in Greifswald he published the first part, Die Kondiktionen (1881) and the second part, Die adjectivischen Klagen (1882) of his multi-volume treatises from the Roman civil process . The third and final part, The Denunciation Trial , was published in 1887. Due to the success of his Pandects , he was given a full professorship in law at the University of Bern in 1883. There he introduced a new teaching method, the seminar . Instead of the classic lectures, he relied on the active participation of the students. In 1885 his legal opinion appeared in disputes of the tunnel construction company Favre on the problems of Louis Favre in the construction of the Gotthard tunnel and in 1892 the report on the claims from the Mönchenstein railway accident of June 14, 1891 . In the accident, the biggest railway disaster in Switzerland to date , the railway bridge built by Gustave Eiffel over the Birs collapsed with a moving train. 78 people were killed and 131 injured. To celebrate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the University of Bologna in 1888, he presented his work to Franz Hotman's Antitribonian as a commemorative publication from the University of Bern.

In 1888 he went to the University of Bonn as a full professor and worked there until his death. His chair included Roman law, Prussian law, civil procedural law and encyclopedia. Baron was counted among the Kathedersocialists who tried to solve social problems in civil law. He continued to publish legal works, he often published smaller essays in the German legal journal , in Westermann's monthly journals and in the journal Nord und Süd . In 1892 he published the commemorative publication Peregrinenrecht und ius gentium for the 50th anniversary of Rudolph von Jhering's doctorate .

Julius Baron died on June 9, 1898, at the age of 64, in Bonn. In his will , the Baron, who was a vegetarian himself , determined a significant sum of his fortune to found a vegetarian children's home in Berlin, Breslau or Festenberg. However , this award was rejected by the Berlin City Council , but accepted by the City of Wroclaw. He bequeathed his extensive legal library to the University of Bern.

Publications (selection)

  • De iudiciorum constitutione in veteris Saxoniae urbibus. ( Dissertation ) Berlin 1855.
  • Treatises from Prussian law. Berlin 1860. ( digitized )
  • The general legal relations in Roman law. Marburg 1864. ( digitized )
  • The budget law of the Reichstag. Berlin 1867.
  • Pandects. Leipzig 1872. ( digitized )
  • Marriage in old and new laws. Berlin 1874. ( digitized )
  • Attacks on inheritance law. With a postscript on the social democratic elections. Berlin 1877.
  • Treatises from the Roman Civil Trial. 3 volumes, Berlin 1881 to 1887
  • History of Roman Law. Berlin 1884.
  • Peregrine law and ius gentium. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of Rudolph von Jhering's doctorate. Leipzig 1892.

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SURNAME Baron, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, legal historian and Pandekt
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Festenberg
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1898
Place of death Bonn