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Pier Silverio Leicht (born June 25, 1874 in Venice , † February 3, 1956 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer , historian and librarian .

Life

Leicht grew up in Venice and completed a law degree at the University of Padua , which he completed in 1896 with an investigation into the influence of Roman and Germanic law on Friulian private law. Another study visit in the same year took him to the University of Leipzig . The meeting with the legal historian Francesco Schupfer in 1898 at the University of Rome had a lasting effect on Leicht's scientific orientation. The discussions between Schupfer and Nino Tamassia about the continued effect of elements of Roman law on medieval legal development remained decisive for Leicht's legal historical research.

From 1900 to 1902 Leicht was director of the municipal library of Udine ( Biblioteca Civica di Udine ), from 1903 he taught at various universities. After brief stops in Camerino , Siena and Cagliari , he taught legal history at the University of Modena from 1913 and at the University of Bologna from 1921 . In 1923 he joined the Fascist Party of Italy and became a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies during the XXVII. and XXVIII. Legislative period (1924–1934). In 1934 Leicht was appointed senator , from 1935 he worked at the University of Rome , from 1938 as president of the Faculty of Law. From 1936 to 1938 he was also Vice President of the Italian National Academy , to which he had been a member since 1920. From 1930 to 1944 Leicht was the first chairman of the Italian Library Association ( Associazione Italiana Biblioteche ). With the fall of fascism , Leicht was relieved of his offices. He died in Rome in 1956.

Fonts

• Diritto romano e diritto germanico in alcuni documenti friulani dei secoli XI, XII, XIII , Udine 1897
• Il diritto romano nell'Alto Adige durante il Medio Evo , Modena 1930
• Some main problems in Italian legal history , Cologne 1933 (publications of the Petrarca House)
• Storia del diritto italiano , Milano 1936 ff.
• Corporazioni romane e arti medievali , Torino 1937
• Studi di storia friulana , Udine 1954

literature

• Giordano Ferri:  Easy, Pier Silverio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64:  Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
• Carlo Guido Mor: Bibliografia di Pier Silverio Leicht , in: Atti dell'Accademia di Scienze Lettere ed Arti di Udine, Series 6, XIV (1954–57), pp. 287–307.