Moriz Wlassak

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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

Individual evidence

  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).