Max Conrat

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Max Conrat

Max Conrat , also Max Cohn , born Moise Cohn (born September 16, 1848 in Breslau ; † December 12, 1911 in Heidelberg ), was a German legal historian .

Life

When Max (originally: Moise) Cohn was born, his eldest brother Ferdinand had already passed his doctorate with summa cum laude . As this also visited the Max Mary Magdalene School in Breslau until High School in 1867. His legal education at the universities of Breslau and Heidelberg joined Max Cohn in 1870 and his doctorate ( De natura societatum juris Romani, quae vocantur publicae ) in Berlin from . Theodor Mommsen and Heinrich von Treitschke were more interested in history than legal dogmatism . The great lawyers Bernhard Windscheid and Levin Goldschmidt impressed him more as personalities. In 1873 Max C. completed his habilitation in Roman law with a thesis on Roman law of associations, treatises from the history of law.

In the summer of 1875 he became associate professor and in the following semester full professor of Roman law at the University of Zurich . In 1877 he married Sophie Traube, daughter of the well-known doctor and pathologist Ludwig Traube . The marriage had two children. In 1878 Max Cohn went to the newly founded University of Amsterdam as a full professor . In 1880 he renounced his Jewish faith, became Protestant and called himself Max Conrat from 1882. But he did not change his nationality , rather he felt himself to be a link between Dutch and German scientists. Even in his lectures he switched from German to Dutch. In 1895/96 Max Cohn was Rector Magnificus of Amsterdam University, in 1903 he celebrated his 25th anniversary as a professor there, and in 1905 he was appointed a member of the Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam (Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam). Three well-known Dutch lawyers, P. Schölten, EM Meijers and JC van Oven, rated Max Conrat and his work very positively. Tedious, genuine German scholarly diligence has been confirmed to him when he collected documents from libraries all over Europe and made them accessible for later research by editing them. Max Conrat (Cohn) broke new ground in researching the periods of decline of Roman law in late antiquity and the earlier Middle Ages . In 1907 he retired . After studying in Italy , he retired to Heidelberg. His work is still of current importance for the legal historian today. Almost all of his works were reprinted between 1963 and 1973.

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SURNAME Conrat, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohn, Max; Cohn, Moise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1911
Place of death Heidelberg