Otto von Dungern

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Otto Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Dungern (born October 14, 1875 in Neuwied , † October 4, 1967 in Graz ) was a German-Austrian lawyer and legal historian .

Life

From 1894 von Dungern studied in Edinburgh , Geneva , Munich , Leipzig and Berlin . In 1899 he was in Erlangen Dr. jur. PhD . After working as a trainee lawyer and legal assistant , he qualified as a professor in 1908. In 1911 he became an associate professor for administrative theory and Austrian constitutional and administrative law as well as international law and German legal history at the University of Czernowitz . After the beginning of the First World War in 1914, he was initially in the diplomatic service before he finally became a full professor for constitutional and administrative law at the University of Graz in 1916 , which he remained until his retirement in 1941. From 1920 to 1923 he was a member of the Greater German People's Party in the Styrian state parliament.

One of his main areas of work was German legal and constitutional history, where he mainly dealt with questions of genealogy and nobility .

Otto von Dungern was an honorary member of the Heraldic-Genealogical Society "Adler" (Vienna) and holder of the Johann-Christoph-Gatterer-Medal 1956 in silver.

Fonts (selection)

  • The gentleman's class in the Middle Ages. A sociopolitical and legal historical investigation. Volume 1. Vogt, paper mill 1908.
  • Succession to the throne and consanguinity of the German emperors since Charlemagne (= Roland, association for the promotion of heritage, coat of arms and seal customer . Annual gift . 1910/1911, ZDB -ID 1368566-1 ). Vogt, paper mill 1910.
  • State and people through the centuries. Leykam, Graz 1911.
  • The constitutional law of Egypt. Leykam, Graz 1911.
  • Balkan problems (= pamphlet of the Deutsche Wacht association. 2, ZDB -ID 1033154-2 ). Kellerer, Munich 1917.
  • Maternal lines. New ways for heredity and family research. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz 1924.
  • Aristocratic rule in the Middle Ages. Lehmann, Munich 1927.
  • Kamillo Trotter. Pioneer of a new German constitutional history (= writings of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies eV 14, ZDB -ID 1185990-8 ). Lassleben, Munich et al. 1941.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arndt Richter: The world of neglected lineages: "Mother tribes" - daughter chains. Degener, Insingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-7686-5193-6 .
  2. ↑ Everything that has appeared. See: Michael O. Krieg: No more was published. A list of unfinished printed works. Volume 1: A-L (= Bibliotheca bibliographica. 2, 1, ZDB ID 407143-8 ). Krieg, Vienna 1954, p. 195.

literature

  • Hermann Ibler: Obituary for Otto Dungern. In: Journal of the historical association for Styria. Vol. 59, 1968, ISSN  0437-5890 , pp. 213-219.
  • Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 3-205-77476-0 , pp. 101-102.

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personal data
SURNAME Dungern, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dungern, Otto Karl Ludwig Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian lawyer and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1967
Place of death Graz