Karl Georg Bruns

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Karl Georg Bruns

Karl Eduard Georg Bruns , also: Carl Georg Bruns , Georg Bruns (* February 24, 1816 in Helmstedt , † December 10, 1880 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and jurist.

Life

Karl Georg Bruns, son of the Privy Councilor of Justice Johann Georg Theodor Bruns (1786–1835) and his wife Friedericke (1786–1822), daughter of the philologist Johann Heinrich Justus Köppen (1755–1791), came from a Helmstedt family of scholars, originally from Holstein had immigrated. His grandfather, the orientalist Paul Jakob Bruns (1743–1814), had already made a name for himself as a man of diverse education as a professor in Halle and Helmstedt. Bruns grew up in a well-protected family environment, where artistic ambitions were stimulated in him during his childhood. Following his father's places of activity, he first attended schools in Helmstedt, then in Wolfenbüttel and finally in Braunschweig . There he also prepared for studies at the Braunschweig Collegium in 1834 .

In 1835 the young law student went to the University of Göttingen , moved to the University of Heidelberg in 1836 and moved to the University of Tübingen in the fall of 1836 . Here he found the support of his uncle Heinrich Eduard Siegfried von Schrader (1779–1860) and was also taught by Karl Georg von Wächter (1797–1880). In Tübingen he made a prize publication What use are the so-called Vatican fragments for the science of Roman law? (lat. 1842) attracted attention and received his doctorate on May 10, 1838 as a doctor of law. Returning to Braunschweig, he passed his lawyer exam and, at the suggestion of his step-uncle Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke (1804–1872), decided to devote himself to academic life. In autumn he moved to the University of Berlin , where he dealt intensively with the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and attended the lectures of Friedrich Karl von Savigny . In the winter semester of 1839/40 he returned to Tübingen and became a private lecturer for the institutions there at Easter 1840.

He soon gained such a reputation through his reading activities that he was appointed associate professor at the Faculty of Law in 1844 and in 1849 accepted an appointment as full professor of Roman law at the University of Rostock . However, he did not stay long in Rostock. In 1851 he went to the University of Halle-Wittenberg as a full professor , where he became a member of the panel of judgments and was Vice-Rector of the Alma Mater for two terms from 1855 to 1857 . In 1859 he went to the University of Tübingen as a professor, from where he was appointed to the University of Berlin in 1861 as the successor to Friedrich Ludwig Keller and Savigny. In 1870/71 he was also rector of the Berlin University, had become a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1875 and was co-founder of the Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte in 1861 .

Bruns signed the Notabeln Declaration , which was published in the Berlin press two days after his death on November 12, 1880 , and in which 75 eminent scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians expressed their condemnation of the anti-Semitic movement.

He had married Charlotte († 1900), the daughter of the Gmelin Senior Justice in Esslingen, in Tübingen on September 21, 1841. The son Ivo Bruns (1853–1901) also gained importance as a classical philologist .

Bruns, who was in good health throughout his life, contracted pneumonia seven days before his death, from which he died in Berlin in 1880 at the age of 64. He was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

Brun's scientific work was mainly devoted to dogma-historical, legal-dogmatic and legal-historical topics. In addition to a large number of dependent articles in magazines and compilations, he also wrote several monographs. A collection of his smaller contributions appeared in two volumes in Weimar in 1882 and was edited by his son Ivo Bruns. It also contains an outline of Karl Bruns' life.

  • The right of possession in the Middle Ages and in the present . Tübingen 1848
  • The closeness . Hall 1857
  • Fontes juris Romani antiqui - Tübingen 1860, 4th edition 1879, 5th edition 1887, 6th edition Freiburg 1893
  • The essence of bona fides in the presidency . Berlin 1872
  • The property suits of Roman and present-day law . Weimar 1874
  • Syriac Roman law book from the 5th century . Leipzig 1880 (with Sachau)
  • The older property and the possessorium ordinarium .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Georg Bruns  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 300.
personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Karl Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruns, Carl Georg; Bruns, Georg; Bruns, Karl Eduard Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1880
Place of death Berlin