Peter E. Pieler
Peter E. Pieler (born December 14, 1941 in Vienna ; † October 1, 2018 ibid) was an Austrian legal historian and professor of Roman law and Byzantine legal history at the University of Vienna .
Life
After studying law at the University of Vienna, Pieler became a research assistant at the Institute for Roman Law and Ancient Legal History of his alma mater in 1965 . In 1967 he received his doctorate in law, and in 1980 he completed his habilitation in Roman law and ancient legal history. His habilitation thesis dealt with the imperial court and the imperial court organs from Augustus to Justinian . From 1983 until his retirement in 2010, Pieler was full professor of Roman law. From 1993 to 2000 he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna .
Together with Walter Selb , he worked on researching Roman legal texts and researched with Selb for corresponding manuscripts of old legal texts in the monasteries of Tur Abdin .
Pieler was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and its chairman from 1998 to 2007.
Pieler was married and the father of two children.
Research priorities
In Roman law, Pieler dealt intensively with the court organization of the Roman Empire . He was specifically interested in the relationship between Roman law and canon law .
Awards
- Honorary President of the Vienna Legal History Society
- 2001: Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2016: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens
- 2018: Academic memorial ceremony on November 7, 2018 at the Faculty of Law
Works
- Legal literature. (Chapter XIII). In: Herbert Hunger (Ed.): Byzantinisches Handbuch. The high-level profane literature of the Byzantines. Volume 2: Philology, profane poetry, music, mathematics and astronomy, natural sciences, medicine, war science, legal literature. Beck, Munich 1978. ISBN 978-3-406-01428-4 , pp. 343-480.
- with Heinz Krejci , Richard Potz and Bernhard Raschauer : Jus in Vienna . Manz, Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-214-08910-8
- Late antique legal literature. In: Lodewijk J. Engels, Heinz Hofmann (Ed.): New manual of literary studies. Volume 4: Late Antiquity. Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-89104-052-0 , pp. 565-600.
- Participation in the publication and translation of the Patriarchate Register (3 volumes published so far).
literature
- Nikolaus Benke, Franz-Stefan Meissel (Hrsg.): Antiquity - Law - History: Symposium in honor of Peter E. Pieler . (= Viennese studies on history, law and society. Volume 4). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58427-9 .
Web links
- Pieler, Peter E. Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter E. Pieler , University of Vienna, accessed on November 6, 2018.
- ↑ Obituary of the Faculty. (accessed November 11, 2018).
- ↑ a b c d e Obituary , University of Vienna, accessed on November 6, 2018.
- ↑ Peter Pieler , Max Planck Institute for European Legal History , accessed on November 6, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pieler, Peter E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian legal scholar and professor of Roman law and Byzantine legal history at the University of Vienna |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st October 2018 |
| Place of death | Vienna |