Siegmund Keller

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Siegmund Otto Keller , also Sigmund Otto Keller , Sigmund Keller or Sigismund Keller (born May 29, 1870 in Öhringen , † December 31, 1943 in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch ) was a German legal historian and librarian .

Life

Siegmund Keller came from a southern German family of scholars. His father Otto Keller was a classical philologist who became known for his research on Horace , his standard works on the animals of classical antiquity and his advocacy of Heinrich Schliemann's discoveries.

Siegmund Keller studied law, philology and history at the German University in Prague , where his father taught. In 1893 he was awarded a doctorate in Tübingen with studies on the Peace of Westphalia. phil. PhD. In 1894 he was called to Rome and worked there on the publication of the Vatican files for the Council of Trent . Inspired by medieval Rome and extensive study trips to Italy and Tunisia lasting several years , a work on canon law and German law was created, with which he completed his habilitation in 1904 at the University of Bonn .

From 1902 to 1911 he worked as a private lecturer and professor at the law faculty in Bonn and temporarily in Marburg. In 1912 he moved to Berlin and worked there until his retirement in 1935 at the Berlin State Library as Professor of Law and Library Councilor. This activity was only interrupted by a secondment during the First World War as a consultant in the Foreign Office and after the end of the war as a member of the Reich Compensation Commission .

Siegmund Keller was married to Anna Maria Pauline Braunstein on September 22, 1904 and had four children with her, including the dancer Guta Kemeny-Rudin and the physicist and journalist Marion Keller .

Keller's brother was the literary scholar Wolfgang Keller (1873–1943). His sister was the sculptor Clothilde Schaar (1874–1958).

Fonts (selection)

  • Negotiations about the religious complaints at the Westphalian peace congress 1647-1648 . Dissertation to Dr. phil. Tübingen 1893
  • Investigations into the Iudices Sacri Palatii Lateranensis . Dissertation to Dr. jur. Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin 1899
  • The seven Roman court judges in the Byzantine era . Enke, Stuttgart 1904 (reprint Schippers, Amsterdam 1962) (= habilitation thesis).
  • The proof of self-defense. A legal historical study from the Sachsenspiegel (= criminal law treatises 57). Breslau 1904 (Reprint Keip, Frankfurt am Main 1977).
  • Patriciate and rulership in the imperial city of Lindau Winter, Heidelberg 1907
  • Handmahal and Anthmallus. 2 contributions to the teaching of hantgemal . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department 30, 1909, pp. 224–251
  • About the relationship between state and church . In Bonn. Z. 1910
  • The nobility of the south German patriciate . In: Festschrift for Otto von Gierke . Weimar 1911, pp. 741-756.
  • The constitutional recognition of the Reformed Church at the Westphalian Peace Congress. At the same time a contribution to the history of German diplomacy in the XVII. Century . In: Announcement of the Bonn law faculty for Paul Krüger . Berlin 1911, p. 475ff.
  • The equality of the Prussian community officials with the other citizens in relation to the passive local voting rights . In: Rundschau für community officials 1912 and other places
  • The civil servants' right of association . In: Sächsisches Gemeindeblatt No. 12 1913 and other places
  • Ludwig Uhland. His songs. His women. For the 150th birthday of the poet. 1937

literature

  • Georg Keller: Family history of the Counts and Lords of Keller - including the bourgeois part - up to 1922 . Verlag Rockstuhl 1st reprint edition 2016. pp. 75–77. ISBN 978-3-95966-168-3
  • Personnel news about the library council Prof. Dr. Siegmund Keller. Berlin University Library 1911–1936. Archive Humboldt University PA K 75, Vol. 4, Vol. 41 (RS)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Siegmund Otto Keller: Curriculum vitae in personal news about the library council Prof. Dr. Siegmund Keller . In: Universitätsbibliothek zu Berlin (Ed.): Archive Humboldt University . PA K 75, Vol. 4, Vol. 41 (RS). Berlin August 29, 1913.
  2. ↑ a b Georg Keller (ed.): History of the Keller family . 1922, p. 75 .
  3. ↑ Archive of the University Library in Berlin (ed.): Personnel news about the library council Prof. Dr. Siegmund Keller . PA K 75, Vol. 4, Vol. 41 (RS). Berlin 1935.
  4. ↑ a b Various: Prof. Dr. Dr. phil. "Sigmund" Otto Keller. In: Family data of the Paul Wolfgang Merkel Family Foundation Nuremberg. Retrieved January 29, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Various: Prof. Dr. phil. Otto Keller. In: Family data of the Paul Wolfgang Merkel Family Foundation Nuremberg. Retrieved January 29, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Siegmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Siegmund Otto (full name); Keller, Sigmund Otto; Keller, Sigmund; Keller, Sigismund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhringen
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1943
Place of death Stuttgart-Sillenbuch