Karl Otto Scherner

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Karl Otto Scherner (born April 23, 1934 in Worms ; † April 18, 2019 ) was a German lawyer and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1953, Karl Otto Scherner, son of a farmer, began studying oriental studies and law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he continued at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1963 he passed his second state examination in law. At the same time, he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. right of withdrawal due to non-performance with the dissertation . Investigations on German private law doctrine of modern times . In 1971 he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz at the chair of Professor Johannes Bärmann with the habilitation thesis Salmannschaft, Servusgeschäft and venditio iusta. Early forms of arbitrary mediation in old German private law . He then became an associate professor there in 1971 and, in 1973, after Johannes Bärmann's retirement, professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

In 1979, Scherner accepted a professorship at the Law Faculty of the University of Mannheim and taught civil law, German, comparative and other European legal history until his retirement in 2002.

Scherner died in April 2019, a few days before his 85th birthday.

Publications

In addition to his many years of teaching activity, Karl Otto Scherner published numerous legal books. His publications include:

  • Right of withdrawal due to non-performance. Studies on German private law doctrine of modern times , dissertation University of Mainz 1963, Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1965
  • Salmannschaft, hello business and venditio iusta. Early forms of voluntary mediation in old German private law , Habilitation University Mainz, Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1971
  • From trade to company. Studies on commercial law in the 18th and 19th centuries , co-editor Dietmar Willoweit , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 978-3-534-07386-3
  • Modernization of commercial law in the 19th century , Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 978-3-8005-1117-4
  • Works constitution and privacy protection. Günther Wiese on his 65th birthday , Festschrift for Günther Wiese , BI-Wissenschafts-Verlag, Mannheim 1994, ISBN 978-3-411-16971-9
  • BGB - General Part , Vahlen Verlag , Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-8006-0754-9
  • Advocates, revolutionaries, lawyers. The history of the Mannheim legal profession , Verlag Thorbecke , Sigmaringen 1997, ISBN 978-3-7995-0958-9
  • The design of German telegraph law since the 19th century , pp. 132–162, in: Hans-Jürgen Teuteberg , Cornelius Neutsch: From wing telegraphs to the Internet: History of modern telecommunications , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1998, quarterly for social and Economic history: Supplements No. 147, ISBN 3-515-07414-7
  • Trade, Economy and Law in Europe. Treatises on commercial and economic law in Germany and Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries , Verlag Keip, Goldbach 1999, ISBN 978-3-8051-0341-1

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Scherner, Karl Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2019