Stephan Brassloff

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Stephan Brassloff (born June 18, 1875 in Vienna , † February 25, 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was an Austrian legal historian .

Life

Stephan Brassloff attended the German Upper High School in Prague from 1885 and the Upper High School in Vienna- Döbling from 1891 . After graduating from high school in 1893, he studied law , classical philology , ancient history and archeology at the University of Vienna , where he was particularly influenced by Ludwig Mitteis . After a semester at the University of Leipzig (1897/1898) he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . In 1903 he qualified as a professor for legal history of antiquity. From 1906 he worked as a teacher at the commercial academy and as a criminal defense attorney at the Higher Regional Court in Vienna. He was also a member of the Legal History Commission since 1906 and the Judicial State Examination Commission since 1914.

In 1919 Brasslof was appointed associate professor for Roman law at the University of Vienna. Since then he has held regular lectures and exercises, including his main research area, epigraphy . Since his appointment, Brassloff has also dealt with legal issues. He introduced numerous reform proposals in the field of private law and procedural law , with a particular focus on promoting equal rights for women. His social commitment is also reflected in his twenty years of voluntary work as a legal advisor in the legal welfare office of the municipality of Vienna for the needy.

Because of his liberal commitment and his Jewish origins, he already ran into problems in the 1920s: a student smear campaign against him led to disciplinary proceedings and ended in 1925 with a reprimand from Brassloff. Brassloff was never appointed full professor. After the " annexation of Austria " to the German Reich , Brassloff was forced into retirement. As a Jew, his pension was canceled in 1939. While his son Friedrich Lothar (1907–1985) managed to emigrate to Great Britain, Stephan Brassloff and his wife Ottilie were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 . His wife died there on September 21, 1942, Brassloff herself on February 25, 1943.

Fonts (selection)

  • To the knowledge of the people's law in the Romanized eastern provinces of the Roman Empire . Weimar 1902
  • Guide to Austrian constitutional studies for the Abitur courses of the Austrian commercial academies . Vienna 1909. 2nd, improved edition, Vienna / Leipzig 1914
  • On the history of slavery in Mosaic Talmudic law . Vienna 1921
  • The changes in the principles of Austrian tenancy law . Vienna 1925
  • Studies on Roman legal history . Part 1 (no longer published), Vienna 1925
  • Epigraphic analects . Part 1 (no longer published), Vienna 1926
  • Possessio in the writings of the Roman jurists. A contribution to the knowledge of the Roman legal language . Vienna 1928
  • Legal certainty. A study in the field of general legal theory . Vienna 1928
  • The Roman State and its International Relations . Vienna 1928
  • The legal question in the Prussian mixed marriages dispute . Vienna 1929
  • Reforms in maintenance law and guardianship law . Vienna 1929
  • Limits of a reform of civil procedural law for the poor . Vienna 1931
  • Social-political motives in the development of Roman law . Vienna 1933
  • State and society in the Roman Empire (time of the principle) . Vienna / Leipzig 1933
  • Reforms and reform proposals in the field of private law and civil procedure law . Vienna / Leipzig 1936
  • Siegmund Grünberg as a legal writer . Vienna 1936

literature

  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 156.
  • Kurt Mühlberger: Documentation: Displaced Intelligence 1938. The loss of mental and human potency at the University of Vienna from 1938 to 1945 . Second improved and increased edition, Vienna 1993. p. 12 (with picture)
  • Thomas Olechowski :  Brassloff, Stephan . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  • Mary Steinhauser (1938–2017): Theresienstadt Book of the Dead. So that they are not forgotten . Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-900370-91-5 . P. 162.

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personal data
SURNAME Brassloff, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1943
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto