Sibylle Bolla-Kotek

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Sibylle Bolla-Kotek de Czáford-Jobbaháza (* 8. June 1913 in Pozsony , Austria-Hungary , † 22 February 1969 in Vienna ) was Austrian law historian and the first female professor at a juridical faculty in Austria.

Life

Sibylle von Bolla was born in what was then Pozsony (Bratislava, German: Pressburg) as the daughter of the Hungarian Colonel Gideon von Bolla and his wife Margarethe. In 1923 the family moved to Teplitz-Schönau , where they graduated from the humanistic grammar school. Her father died in 1929. The father's military colleague, Theodor Körner , subsequently supported the family.

Sibylle von Bolla studied law at the German (Karl Ferdinand) University in Prague . She received her doctorate in 1935. Her teachers included Egon Weiß and Mariano San Nicolò , an authority on cuneiform writing. They advised her to pursue an academic career.

In 1938 she received the teaching license for Roman Law and Ancient Legal History. Her field of work included papyrology and cuneiform texts . One of her university colleagues was Professor Bedřich Hrozný , who deciphered the Hittite language . In 1944 she became an associate professor; despite support from the faculty, she was denied appointment to a chair .

In 1945 Sibylle von Bolla left Czechoslovakia and first went to Tyrol, where her sister lived. Contacts with the University of Innsbruck were unsuccessful. In 1946 she received the license to teach at the Vienna Faculty of Law . In 1949 she became an associate professor. She married the doctor Alfred Kotek in 1950.

In 1958, Sibylle Bolla-Kotek was appointed full professor of Roman law, papyrology, Middle Eastern law and civil law at the University of Vienna . She was the first woman in Austria to become a professor at a law school. With Fritz Schwind , Walter Selb , Gerhard Thür and Peter Pieler , she was one of the professors who supervise the research area of ​​ancient legal history founded by Leopold Wenger at the University of Vienna.

Sibylle Bolla-Kotek was widely recognized as an academic teacher. Her practice extended to family law, university organization and labor law. The combination of ancient law and modern social law was continued after her death at the Vienna law faculty. One of her students and successors on the chair was Theo Mayer-Maly .

In 1968 she had a serious riding accident. The 55-year-old died on February 22, 1969 as a result of the consequences and an additional flu .

One of the “gates of memory” on the Vienna university campus (“ Altes AKH ”) in the ninth district of Alsergrund , from Rotenhausgasse to Hof 8, is named after Sibylle Bolla-Kotek.

A small group of ancient coins owned by Sibylle Bolla-Kotek is in the collection of the Institute for Numismatics and Monetary History of the University of Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

The correct spelling of the first name is “Sibylle”, but “Sybille” can also be used in library catalogs etc.

  • The development of the tax authorities to the subject of private law with contributions to the doctrine of aerarium: A legal historical investigation . Prague 1938.
  • Collection of imperial, state and federal laws as well as other regulations for the official use of the Austrian Federal Gendarmerie. Vienna 1950.
  • From Roman and civil inheritance law. Vienna 1950.
  • Outline of Austrian international private law. Guides through Austrian law. Vienna 1952.
  • The Roman legal scholar. In: Speculum iuris et ecclesiarum. Festschrift for Willibald M. Plöchl on his 60th birthday. Vienna 1967, pp. 17-30.
  • Investigations into the renting of animals and livestock in antiquity. Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history. Booklet 30. Munich 1940, 2nd edition 1969. ISBN 3-406-00630-2 (subsequently assigned ISBN, not generally applicable).

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  1. ↑ Wolfgang Szaivert: A scientifically interesting ensemble of ancient coins for the institute's collection. Publications of the Institute for Numismatics and Monetary History - VIN. ISSN  1563-3764 . No. 32. Volume 2006, pp. 21-27.
personal data
SURNAME Bolla-Kotek, Sibylle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bolla-Kotek de Czáford-Jobbaháza, Sibylle of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Pozsony
DATE OF DEATH 22nd February 1969
Place of death Vienna