Karl of Amira

Karl of Amira

Karl von Amira (completely Karl Konrad Ferdinand Maria von Amira, born March 8, 1848 in Aschaffenburg , † June 22, 1930 in Munich ) was a German legal historian .

Life

He graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1867 and then studied law at the University of Munich . He studied a. a. with Bernhard Windscheid , Julius Wilhelm von Planck , Paul von Roth and Alois von Brinz . He also heard Konrad Maurer and learned the Nordic languages. Maurer also supervised his dissertation in 1872. Von Amira completed his habilitation in 1874. From 1875 to 1892 he was professor of German and canon law at the University of Freiburg . From 1892 he was a professor of constitutional law in Munich. He dealt mainly with Germanic and medieval legal history . Amira is also considered the founder of legal archeology and a pioneer of legal iconography .

In 1892 von Amira became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , in 1893 an extraordinary member, and in 1901 a full member. In 1896 Amira became a member of the founding commission of the German legal dictionary, which he helped initiate . Amira also belonged to other academies and learned societies, for example the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (since 1887), the Royal Science and Literature Society in Gothenburg (since 1891), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (since 1905), the Prussian Academy of Sciences (since 1900), the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (since 1922) and the Saxon Academy of Sciences (since 1929). In 1902 he received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .

Claudius Freiherr von Schwerin , Eberhard Freiherr von Künßberg and Paul Puntschart are among his most important students .

Publications (selection)

• The Old Norwegian Enforcement Procedure: A Legal History Treatise. Munich 1874.
• Successes of inheritance and kinship structure according to the old Low German rights. Ackermann, Munich 1874 ( digitized version ).
• On the ends and means of Germanic legal history. Academic inaugural speech. Ackermann, Munich 1876 ( digitized version ).
• The Endinger Judenspiel (editorship). Halle 1883 ( digitized ; DjVu ).
• Animal punishments and animal trials. In: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. 11th Volume, 1891, pp. 545-601. Separate print: Innsbruck 1891 ( digitized ; PDF).
• The Dresden illuminated manuscript of the Sachsenspiegel . First volume: Facsimile of the manuscript. Leipzig 1902. Volume 2 : Explanations. Part I, Leipzig 1925 and Part II, Leipzig 1926.
• The hand gestures in the illuminated manuscripts of the Sachsenspiegel (= treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Philological and Historical Class; Vol. 23, 2). Munich 1905.
• The stick in Germanic legal symbolism (= treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Philological and Historical Class; Volume 25, 1). Munich 1909 ( review in the ZRG ).
• Outline of Germanic Law (= Outline of Germanic Philology. Volume 5). 3. Edition. Strasbourg 1913.
• The Neubauer Chronicle (= meeting reports of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-philological and historical class; year 1918, 9). Munich 1918 ( digitized ; DjVu ).
• The Germanic death sentences. Studies on the history of law and religion (= treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-philological and historical class; Vol. 31, 3). Munich 1922.

literature

• Paul Puntschart: Karl von Amira and his work . Böhlau, Weimar 1932.
• Hans Liermann :  Karl von Amira. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 249 ( digitized version ).
• Peter Landau , Hermann Nehlsen , Mathias Schmoeckel (eds.): Karl von Amira zum Gedächtnis (= legal history series , volume 206), Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-631-35425-8 .
• Gerhard J. Bellinger , Brigitte Regulator-Bellinger : Schwabings Ainmillerstrasse and its most important residents. A representative example of Munich's city history from 1888 to today. Norderstedt 2003, pp. 139-140, ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 ; 2nd edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-2883-6 ; E-Book 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6264-9 .
• Mathias Schmoeckel: Amira, Karl von (1848–1930) . In: Albrecht Cordes , Heiner Lück , Dieter Werkmüller , Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand (Eds.): Concise Dictionary of German Legal History , 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition, Volume 1, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503 -07912-4 , Sp. 200–202 ( online, chargeable ).
• Hermann Nehlsen: Karl von Amira (1848–1930) . In: Katharina Weigand (ed.): Munich historian between politics and science. Utz, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0969-7 , pp. 137–158.

Web links

Commons : Karl von Amira  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Karl von Amira  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Karl von Amira in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Karl von Amira  in the German Digital Library
• BBAW (PDF; 38 kB)
• The legal archaeological collection of Charles of Amira (1848–1930)
• The estate is in the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich . 1866/67, p.
2. ^ List of members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Karl (Karl Konrad Ferdinand Maria) by Amira. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 15, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 26.