Moriz Wlassak

Moriz Wlassak (born August 20, 1854 in Brno , † April 24, 1939 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and legal historian.

life and work

Grave of Moriz Wlassak in the Dobling cemetery

He studied with Adolf Exner in Vienna and after his habilitation in 1879 was professor of Roman law at the universities of Czernowitz (1879), Graz (1882), Breslau (1884), Strasbourg (1895) and Vienna (1900–1926; successor to Friedrich von Woess ). From 1909 he was a corresponding (since 1914 real) member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna , since 1917 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and since July 31, 1934 a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Wlassak had an intensive exchange with Ludwig Mitteis . His work is shaped by the historical-critical approach to the analysis of Roman civil procedural law.

Moriz Wlassak found his final resting place in the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

Edict and form of action , Jena 1882
Roman Laws of Trial , two volumes, Leipzig 1889–1891
Indictment and resolution of the dispute in the criminal law of the Romans , Vienna 1917
The classic procedural formula , Vienna 1924
Legal history treatises: Edited from his estate and edited by Ernst Schönbauer . Vienna 1965

literature

Leopold Wenger : Moriz Wlassak . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Department . Volume 60 (1940), pp. IX – XLV (with picture and list of publications)
Gunter Wesener : History of the Law Faculty of the University of Graz. Part 1: Roman Law and Natural Law . Graz 1978, pp. 60-66.

Web links

Commons : Moriz Wlassak - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Moriz Wlassak - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Moriz Wlassak in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Wlassak, Moritz in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhard Zimmermann : Today's Law, Roman Law and Today's Roman Law . In: Reinhard Zimmermann u. a. (Ed.): Legal history and private law dogmatics. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1999, pp. 1-39 (23).

personal data
SURNAME	Wlassak, Moriz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wlassak, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian lawyer and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	April 24, 1939
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Reinhard Zimmermann : Today's Law, Roman Law and Today's Roman Law . In: Reinhard Zimmermann u. a. (Ed.): Legal history and private law dogmatics. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1999, pp. 1-39 (23).