Ulrich Stutz

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Ulrich Stutz around 1900

Ulrich Stutz (born May 5, 1868 in Zurich ; † July 6, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German legal historian and canon lawyer .

Life

Ulrich Stutz is one of the most important historians of canon law of the 20th century. In 1896 he became professor for law and canon law in Freiburg , where Nikolaus Hilling was his important successor. From 1904 to 1917 he also taught at the University of Bonn , built the Canon Law Institute at the Faculty of Law and Political Science and laid the foundations for the development of historical canonical studies. From 1917 he taught German law and canon law as a full professor at the Berlin University . He headed the Institute for Canon Law; from him comes the characterization of the still valid state church law from the Weimar Imperial Constitution as "limping separation ". Furthermore, he is the originator of the term Eigenkirche ; Stutz contributed significantly to the understanding of the early medieval interweaving of Frankish-secular and Western Roman-ecclesiastical power. His students include Johannes Heckel , Adalbert Erler and Dettmar Philippi as well as the canon law historian Franz Gescher (1884–1945), whose dissertation from 1919 Stutz published as the 95th volume in his series of canon law treatises .

Despite his Swiss origins, Stutz exposed himself politically as a “rabid German nationalist” ( Gustav Mayer ). Even after the collapse of the Empire, he remained a staunch monarchist and expressed this conviction every year on January 27th (the birthday of Wilhelm II) in his lecture with a homage to the emperor living in exile.

His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Publications (selection)

  • Expert opinion on the legal status of the Protestant university preacher at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn , [Bonn] [1914] ( digitized version )

Honors

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. Reimund Haas : "Gescherianum" - Rheinische church legal history of the Middle Ages in Cologne and Wroclaw. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013 (2014), pp. 311-325, here: pp. 313 f.
  2. Ulrich Stutz: The papal diplomacy under Leo XIII. According to the memorabilia of Cardinal Domenico Ferrata (= treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Born 1925, No. 3/4, ZDB -ID 210015-0 ). de Gruyter et al., Berlin 1926, p. 54.
  3. Reimund Haas : "Gescherianum" - Rheinische church legal history of the Middle Ages in Cologne and Wroclaw. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013 (2014), pp. 311-325.
  4. Georg May : Franz Gescher based on his letters to Ulrich Stutz. In: Journal of Legal History. Volume 99, Canonical Department 68, 1982, pp. 419-440.
  5. Michael Grüttner u. a .: The Berlin University between the world wars 1918–1945. Berlin 2012 (History of the University of Unter den Linden, Vol. 2), p. 19 f. and 154 f.
  6. Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 236.