Max Rintelen

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Max Rintelen (born February 23, 1880 in Graz ; † December 1, 1965 there ) was an Austrian lawyer and legal historian .

Life

Max Rintelen came from an old Westphalian patrician family; his father Anton Rintelen (the elder, 1842–1905) was a lawyer and member of the Austrian Imperial Court . His brother Anton Rintelen (d. J., 1876–1946) was a lawyer and politician and for many years Governor of Styria .

Max Rintelen studied law at the University of Graz , where he received his doctorate in 1903 . His teachers included Arnold Luschin-Ebengreuth , Paul Puntschart and Gustav Hanausek . Then Rintelen went to the University of Berlin , where the legal historians Heinrich Brunner and Otto von Gierke worked, as well as the historian Karl Zeumer . In the summer semester of 1907 Rintelen completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig with a thesis on debt bondage and culpable imprisonment in enforcement proceedings . After a semester of lectures at the University of Königsberg , in 1909 he accepted an appointment as associate professor at the German University of Prague . In 1916 he became full professor for German law and Austrian imperial history at the University of Graz. Here he was dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science five times ; in the academic year 1931/32 rector of the university. After his retirement in 1951, he taught until he was 75. For many years he was President of the Legal History State Examination Commission.

The studies on the development of the commercial register , which appeared in Stuttgart in 1914, were carried out during the Prague period . Preliminary studies dealt with the Ragionenbuch of the Augsburg merchants. In Graz, Rintelen dealt intensively with recent Austrian legal history , in particular with the lawyer Bernhard Walther (1516–1584), the "father of Austrian jurisprudence" (according to Arnold Luschin-Ebengreuth ). Rintelen recognized the importance of the recent history of private law at an early stage and cultivated this direction. Jurisprudence owes Max Rintelen an edition of Bernhard Walther's private law treatises (1937). The relationship between custom and common law is dealt with in a contribution to the Festschrift Artur Steinwenter (1958). In addition to research into legal history, Rintelen has been concerned with legal protection for intellectual property since the early 1930s . In 1958 a fundamental work on copyright and copyright contract law was published . Max Rintelen has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1951 and a real member since 1954, as well as a member of the State Historical Commission for Styria .

Honors

Works

  • Culprit and warehousing in enforcement proceedings under old Dutch and Saxon law. Duncker & Humblot , Leipzig 1908.
  • The judicial staff in the Austrian wisdom . In: Festschrift Heinrich Brunner on his 70th birthday. Böhlau , Weimar 1910, pp. 631–648.
  • Bernhard Walther's treatises on private law from the 16th century, mainly on agricultural, feudal and inheritance law content (= sources on the history of reception . Vol. 4). Ed. U. introduced by Max Rintelen). S. Hirzel , Leipzig 1937.
  • Customs and common law in the private law of the old Austrian states. In: Festschrift Artur Steinwenter. For the 70th birthday. Böhlau, Graz / Cologne 1958, pp. 78–99. Transcription in the repertory of Austrian and German legal sources of the early modern period
  • Copyright and copyright contract law under Austrian, German and Swiss law. Springer, Vienna 1958.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii .
personal data
SURNAME Rintelen, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1965
Place of death Graz