Sten Gagnér

Sten Gagnér (born March 3, 1921 in Uppsala ; † May 24, 2000 in Munich ) was a Swedish legal historian who taught at the University of Munich from 1964 .

Life

Gagnér came from the province of Dalarna and studied law , philosophy , history and Nordic philology in his native Uppsala . From 1949, parallel to his professional activities for the Swedish police and judiciary, he worked on questions of European legal history in the Middle Ages. In 1964 he was appointed to a chair for Nordic and European comparative legal history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

As a result, he also turned to the more recent history of private law and the history of science and wrote several monographs in the form of large essays. Inspired by Scandinavian legal realism and Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language , he took a critical look at the methodology of recent legal history works. His strengths lay in the philologically precise approach, in the analysis of traditional ideas with the aid of the history of science, and in the promotion of young academics.

In 1986 the University of Turku awarded him an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Copenhagen in 1990 .

Gagnér's students included the legal historians Michael Stolleis , Wolfgang Wiegand , Kurt Seelmann , Joachim Rückert , Rainer Schröder , Monika Frommel , Maximiliane Kriechbaum , among the doctoral students the author Michael Kunze .

Gagnér was first married to Franca Mannocci (* 1920), from 1957 to Margit Anna-Brita Andersson (1926–1982) and from 1969 to Uta Zuppke.

Works (selection)

• Studies on the history of ideas in legislation. Stockholm / Uppsala / Gothenburg 1960.
• On the methodology of recent legal historical studies I: An inventory from the sixties. Ebelsbach 1993.
• Treatises on European legal history. Edited by Joachim Rückert, Michael Stolleis, Maximiliane Kriechbaum, Goldbach 2004.

literature

• Joachim Rückert: On the scientific work of Sten Gagnér. In: Treatises on European legal history. Goldbach 2004, pp. 759-786. (Including bibliography including a list of dissertations and habilitations)

Obituaries:

• Maximiliane Kriechbaum, in: Juristenteitung , 2000, p. 1046 f.
• Wolfgang Wiegand, in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift , 2001, p. 424.
• Michael Stolleis, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 26, 2000, as well as in: Quaderni Fiorentini per la storia del pensiero moderno del diritto , 2000, pp. 549-569.
• Joachim Rückert, in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . German Department 173 (2002), pp. 1094–1112.
• Takuro Wada, in: Journal of Law and Politics. Osaka City University , 47 (2000), p. 230 f.