Rudolph Bischoff

Rudolph Ferdinand Franz Bischoff (born April 21, 1861 in Olmütz , Moravia , † 1948 in Graz ) was an Austrian lawyer and social scientist.

Life

Bischoff attended elementary school and high school in Olomouc. After being reprimanded there, he graduated from high school in Opava (today: Opava ) in 1880 . He then studied law at the University of Graz , among others with Ludwig Gumplowicz and his uncle Ferdinand Bischoff (1826–1915). His first job after graduation took him to the post office in Vienna in 1884, and from 1885 to Graz. Bischoff was later a concept adjunct at the Graz city council, 1889 commissioner and 1893 secretary at the city council Graz. In 1903 he was appointed to the city council himself; 1910 to the upper city council. He retired in 1919.

In 1889 he was awarded a Dr. iur. utr. PhD . In 1904 he completed his habilitation in Austrian administrative law and taught at the University of Graz as a private lecturer for administrative and commercial law, from 1909 private lecturer for Austrian administrative and constitutional law at the Graz University of Technology . Together with Alfred Gürtler he held the highly regarded "Sociological Conversation" at the University of Graz.

In 1924 he was appointed associate professor for political economy. In 1934 he retired .

Bischoff was a co-founder of the Sociological Society in Graz. After the death of Friedrich Sueti on March 25, 1910, he took over the management of the company until it dissolved itself in 1935

Fonts

• with Conrad Rupprecht: To change the support tariff. Graz 1899.
• The commercial plant from the point of view of Austrian administrative law. Graz 1902.
• The right to poor relief. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz 1903.
• On the question of the reorganization of legal and political studies and exams. In: Austrian magazine for administration. XLI. Volume, No. 6, Vienna 1908.
• Shorthand in the public service. Graz 1909.

Web links

• History of the Sociological Society Graz (PDF file; 1.79 MB)