Martin Avenarius

Martin Avenarius (born November 3, 1965 in Hanover ) is professor of civil law , Roman law and modern history of private law at the University of Cologne . From November 1, 2005 to March 31, 2007, he was also Dean of Studies for the Faculty of Law.

Career

From 1986 to 1991 he studied law and Slavic philology at the universities of Göttingen and Vienna . He completed his studies in 1991 with his legal traineeship. This was followed in 1992 with a doctorate on " Savigny's teachings on intertemporal private law " and in 1995 the assessor exam. Between 1995 and 2002 he worked at the Institute for Roman and Common Law at the University of Göttingen. In 1998 he was in Rome for a research stay and worked at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and at the Istituto di Diritto Romano e dei diritti dell'oriente mediterraneo of the Università di Roma . During a research stay in Oxford , he was a guest at Jesus College in 1999 and then in 2000 for research in St. Gallen , where he was able to work primarily in the monastery library. In 2002, Avenarius received his habilitation with a thesis on the pseudo-ulpian liber singularis regularum and thereby acquired the license to teach the subjects of Roman law, civil law and modern history of private law. He then worked as a senior assistant at the Institute for Roman and Common Law at the University of Göttingen and in the same year went to the University of Cologne for a substitute chair . On April 1, 2003, he was appointed Professor of Civil Law, Roman Law and Modern History of Private Law. He heads the Institute for Roman Law in Cologne.

Others

In Cologne, Avenarius is the Hanns Seidel Foundation's liaison professor .

Publications (excerpt)

• Savigny's doctrine of intertemporal private law . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 1993 (sources and research on law and its history, volume 3).
• Reception of Roman law in Russia - Dmitrij Mejer, Nikolaj Djuvernua and Iosif Pokrovskij . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004 (sources and research on law and its history, volume 11).
• The pseudo-ulpian liber singularis regularum. Origin, character and tradition of a high-class legal script . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2005 (sources and research on law and its history, volume 12).
• Friedrich Carl von Savigny - Savignyana. Vol. 8: Pandects. Code of Obligations, General Part . Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 2008 (Studies on European Legal History, Volume 228).
• Rimskoe pravo v Rossii . Moscow 2008.

Web links

• Martin Avenarius on the website of the Institute for Roman Law at the University of Cologne
• Literature by and about Martin Avenarius in the catalog of the German National Library