Karin Nehlsen-von Stryk

Karin Nehlsen-von Stryk , b. von Stryk (born May 13, 1942 in Singen (Hohentwiel) ), is a German lawyer and emeritus professor for German legal history at the University of Freiburg , who has presented studies on the history of commercial and procedural law in the Middle Ages and early modern times.

Life

She received her doctorate in 1979 with the work Die boni homines of the early Middle Ages under Karl Kroeschell at the University of Freiburg and completed her habilitation with the thesis Die Venetianische Seeversicherung in the 15th century in 1984 at the University of Augsburg under Hans Schlosser .

From 1983 to 1986 she was director of the German Study Center in Venice . Subsequently, from 1990 she was full professor for German legal history and civil law at the University of Cologne and from 1996 until her retirement in 2007 in Freiburg im Breisgau , where she also worked as dean of the law faculty and director of the institute for legal history and historical comparative law . Nehlsen-von Stryk was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main .

Nehlsen-von Stryk's research focuses on medieval law. The research approach is similar to that of their teachers Sten Gagnér and Karl Kroeschell, critical and historically oriented.

Nehlsen-von Stryk was married to the Munich legal historian Hermann Nehlsen .

Works (selection)

• The boni homines of the early Middle Ages, with special reference to the Franconian sources. Freiburg legal historical treatises, NF. Vol. 2, Berlin 1981, 390 pp.
• The Venetian marine insurance in the 15th century . Munich University Writings. Faculty of Law: Treatises on Basic Legal Research Vol. 64, Ebelsbach 1986, ISBN 3-88212-047-9 .
• The judgments of the Oberhof of German law at the Kraków Castle, vol. 1: 1456 - 1481, vol. 2: 1481 - 1511, together with Prof. L. Lysiak, Faculty of Law at the University of Kraków. Jus Commune, special issues 68 and 104, Frankfurt 1995 and 1997.
• Process-related and material legal thinking in the Sachsenspiegel, in: Festschrift f. Sten Gagnér on March 3, 1996, ed. v. M. Kriechbaum, Ebelsbach 1996, pp. 33-71.
• The crisis of "irrational" evidence in the high and late Middle Ages and its social implications , in: ZRG GA 117 (2000), pp. 1–38.
• German legal history: 1250-1650 . Volume 2, together with Karl Kroeschell and Albrecht Cordes, UTB / Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-2735-7 .
• Legal norm and legal practice in the Middle Ages and early modern times . Selected essays, ed. by Albrecht Cordes and Bernd Kannowski, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13360-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karin Nehlsen-von Stryk in the catalog of the German National Library
• "List of publications by Prof. em. Dr. Karin Nehlsen-von Stryk"