Paul Jörs

Paul Jörs (born October 8, 1856 in Demmin , † September 26, 1925 in Vienna ) was a German legal historian and papyrologist .

family

Paul Jörs was the son of the businessman Heinrich Jörs (1826–1874) and his wife Pauline (1833–1856), daughter of the Wolgast cigar manufacturer Hermann Rassow. In 1898 he married Elly, nee Backhaus († 1924), the daughter of Hermann Backhaus .

life and work

Jörs attended grammar school in Stralsund from 1867 to 1872 and in Weimar from 1872 to 1875. He began studying history at the University of Bonn in 1876 , then switched to law while maintaining his historical and philological interests . In 1877 he went to the University of Leipzig , in 1879 after four semesters he returned to Bonn , where he passed the legal clerkship examination in 1880 . After receiving his doctorate in 1882, he acquired the Venia Legendi for Roman law in the same year .

Jörs became a full professor at Kiel University in 1886 . In 1888 he went to the University of Giessen , where he became rector in 1892. In 1896 he moved to the University of Breslau and finally went to Vienna in 1905, where he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in 1919 and a full member in 1923 . In the last years of his life, a serious illness hindered his work.

In 1936 Jörsgasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

The legal history of the Roman Empire played an important part in Paul Jörs' studies . In addition to Roman marriage and private law , he dealt with the history of Roman jurisprudence and the sources of Roman law . As a papyrologist, he studied the law in Egypt during the Roman Empire.

MP

In 1895/1896, due to the vacancy of the Chancellor of the University of Gießen, he was a representative of the university in the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . He took his deputy oath on March 19, 1895.

literature

• Wolfgang Kunkel :  Jörs, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 464 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 475.

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Jörs  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Paul Jörs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jörs, Paul. Hessian biography. (As of May 26, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).