Rudolf Leonhard (lawyer)

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Carl Georg Rudolf Leonhard (born December 26, 1851 in Breslau ; died January 1, 1921 there ) was a German legal historian and university lecturer in Göttingen, Halle, Marburg and Breslau.

Life

Rudolf Leonhard came from a Jewish family of lawyers. His father was the lawyer Sigismund Aronson Leonhard. Rudolf Leonhard attended the Maria Magdalenen grammar school in Breslau and the grammar schools in Bytom and Brieg . From Easter 1869 he studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg . When the Franco-Prussian War broke out , he signed up as a volunteer for the Prussian Army . After the war he continued his studies at the Hessian Ludwig University and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In Berlin he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . As a court assessor, he prepared his academic career. In 1878 he completed his habilitation in Berlin. In 1880 he went to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen as an associate professor . In 1884 he was appointed full professor at the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1885 he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg to the chair for Roman law , civil procedure law , Prussian land law and legal terminology . For the academic year 1891/92 he was elected rector of Philipps University. In his rectorate speech on October 18, 1891, he dealt with the importance of canon law for understanding the imperial civil process. In a part-time position, Leonhard held legal history courses at the archive school founded in 1894. In 1895 Leonhard returned to his native Breslau as a professor of Roman law at the Royal University of Breslau . In 1896 he became a go. Council of Justice appointed. In 1902/03 he was rector again. 1907/08 invited as Kaiser Wilhelm Professor to the Law School of Columbia University , he lectured on civil law . The university awarded him an honorary doctorate in law .

Rudolf Leonhard combined civil law and Roman law in his research . In particular, he devoted himself to the civil code , which has been discussed since the German Empire was founded.

The legal scholar Franz Leonhard and the Senate President at the Court of Appeal Fritz Leonhard (1868–1937) were his brothers.

Fonts

  • De natura actionis, quae praejudicialis vocatur . Halle 1874 (Berlin dissertation)
  • Attempt to resolve the dispute about the preference of the successio graduum over the right of access under Roman law , Halle 1874
  • The error in void contracts under Roman law. A contribution to the simplification of contract theory. First part. The elements of the contract exposed to the influence of error , Berlin 1882
  • A contribution to the general doctrine of civil law and to the definition of subjective law , Vienna 1882
  • Legal cases for the comparative study of Roman law and Prussian land law , Leipzig 1887
  • The University of Bologna in the Middle Ages , Leipzig 1888
  • The error as a reason for invalidity in the draft of a civil code for the German Reich , Berlin 1889
  • Rome's past and Germany's law , Leipzig 1889
  • The living conditions of the administration of justice , Marburg 1891
  • The draft of a civil code for the German Empire and its assessment , Marburg 1891. Second version, Marburg 1892
  • Institutions of Roman Law , Leipzig 1894
  • The personal marriage law of the draft of a civil code for the German Empire , Berlin 1895
  • The completion of the German Civil Code , Marburg 1897
  • The general part of the civil code in its influence on the further development of jurisprudence , Berlin 1900
  • The main objectives of the new Civil Code , Wroclaw 1900
  • The influence of the Austrian civil code on the new German succession order , Vienna 1902
  • The Protection of Honor in Ancient Rome , Wroclaw 1902
  • The replica of the litigation gain (replica rei secundum me judicatae) , Breslau 1905
  • The violation of morality , Weimar 1907

See also

literature

  • Franz Gundlach: Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1527 to 1910 . Marburg 1927, p. 136f.
  • Wilhelm Ebel: Catalogus professorum Gottingensium 1734–1962 . Göttingen 1962, p. 59
  • Imagines professorum Academiae Marburgensis . Marburg 1977, p. 125 (portrait)
  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: From 1911 to 1971 . Marburg 1979, p. 136
  • Georg Kaufmann (ed.): Festschrift to celebrate the centenary of the University of Breslau. Second part: History of the subjects, institutes and offices of the University of Breslau 1811–1911 , Breslau 1911. p. 211

Web links

Wikisource: Rudolf Leonhard  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 119/627
  2. ↑ a b Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Leonhard, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leonhard, Carl Georg Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian and university professor; Rector in Marburg and Breslau
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1921
Place of death Wroclaw