Leo of Savigny

Leo von Savigny (born June 19, 1863 in Brussels , † May 10, 1910 in Münster ) was a German legal scholar .

The son of the diplomat Karl Friedrich von Savigny , grandson of Friedrich Carl von Savigny and brother of Karl von Savigny attended various schools due to his father's frequent job-related changes of location, including those of the Jesuits in Feldkirch . He passed his school leaving examination in Ellwangen in 1880 . First in Würzburg, then in Munich and Bonn, he studied philosophy and law from 1881, especially European legal history. As a student, he joined the KV student associations at each of his study locations , namely the K.St.V. Walhalla Würzburg , the K.St.V. Ottonia Munich and the K.St.V. Arminia Bonn . After the first state legal examination in Bonn in 1885, he received his doctorate in the same year with a thesis in the field of Roman law in Göttingen.

In 1890 an appointment followed, initially as a lecturer and from 1891 as a full professor at the newly founded University of Friborg , where Savigny taught German private law, German and Swiss constitutional law, and German legal and constitutional history. From 1892 to 1893 he was dean of his faculty and from 1895 to 1896 he was rector, from 1896 to 1897 as vice rector of the University of Friborg. In 1898 he became an associate professor for constitutional and administrative law at the University of Göttingen . Since October he has been a "helper" in the Prussian Ministry of Culture in Berlin. From 1901 to September 30, 1902, he taught constitutional , administrative and canon law in Marburg . He then became a professor in Münster for state, administrative, international and church law. Savigny dealt intensively with university issues and participated actively in political discussions. From 1909 he represented his university in the Prussian mansion until his death .

Savigny was married to Marie Freiin von Amelunxen. The marriage had three children. After Leo von Savigny's death, she married her brother-in-law Karl von Savigny in 1912 .

Fonts

• The peace presence of the German army . (1887)
• The French law faculties in the context of recent developments in higher education . (1897)
• The natural law problem and the method of its solution . (1901)
• The image of modern parliamentarianism . (1904)
• On the essence of modern international law . (1905)
• The center's change and end . Berlin 1907.
• Parliamentary suffrage in the Reich and in Prussia and its reform . Berlin 1907.

literature

• Leonore Bazinek:  Leo von Savigny. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1456-1459.
• Wolfgang Löhr in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , pp. 124f.

Web links

• Savigny, Leo von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm Zopf	Rector of the University of Münster 1904–1905	Reinhold von Lilienthal