Werner Ogris

Werner Ogris (born July 9, 1935 in Vienna ; † January 13, 2015 there ) was an Austrian legal historian , professor at the University of Vienna and a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Life

Ogris' family moved to Wels after his birth , where he graduated from high school in 1954 . He studied in Vienna, where he completed his law studies on December 12, 1958 with a doctorate .

From April 1, 1958, Werner Ogris worked as a research assistant to Professor Hans Lentze at what was then the Institute for Austrian and German Legal History at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna. One of his first works was a work on the medieval annuity contract , which was published in 1961. Werner Ogris received the Theodor Körner Prize for this . In the same year he was appointed university assistant. One of his teachers and sponsors at the faculty was the then dean Heinrich Demelius . On February 16, 1962, he completed his habilitation in German law (German legal history) and Austrian constitutional and administrative history .

Werner Ogris was appointed to the Free University of Berlin on October 1, 1962 . At that time he was the youngest full professor at a German university. His lecture on the constitutional and administrative history of Brandenburg-Prussia as the first Berlin professor since 1945 was also recognized as sensational outside of the university.

On August 1, 1966, Werner Ogris was called back to the University of Vienna. There he took over the second, then newly established chair for German law and Austrian constitutional and administrative history. His long-term colleague at the institute was Rudolf Hoke . Until his retirement in 2003, he stayed with the Institute for Legal History at the Vienna Faculty of Law for over 37 years. His main lectures on German private law, Austrian and European private law development, his functions as an examiner for state and (since 1981) diploma and rigorous examinations marked the essential stages of study for generations of law students in Vienna.

Werner Ogris was director of the Institute for Legal History from 1966 to 1977 and from 1997 to 2003. For the academic year 1972/73 he was elected dean of the law faculty. In 1992 he was visiting professor at the University of Kansas , and in autumn 1996 at the Universities of Tokyo and Kyoto . In 2004 Werner Ogris became professor at the Bratislava University of Law (Bratislavská Vysoká Škola Práva-BVŠP), in 2005 he was dean. In 1972 he became a corresponding member, in 1975 a real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. At the academy he was head of the Austrian Legal History Commission, which had emerged from the previous commission for the Savigny Foundation. In 1985 he became an external member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and in 1988 of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .

He was married and had two sons.

Werner Ogris was editor of the magazine of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History , German Department (SZGer or ZRG) from 1968 to 1992 . He edited historical Austrian legal sources for the Commission for the Legal History of Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: The "Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Third Department: Fontes iuris". Together with Rudolf Hoke, Werner Ogris co-organized the 31st German Legal History Conference in Vienna in September 1996.

The core areas of Werner Ogris' academic work were the history of private law in the Middle Ages and Austrian constitutional and administrative history. He wrote about 140 articles for the concise dictionary of German legal history -HRG . Werner Ogris has written a number of works on legal relationships in the lives of well-known personalities such as Goethe , Mozart and Maria Theresia , some of which are published under the collective term "Tatort Rechtsgeschichte" (45 articles there alone).

Werner Ogris supervised three habilitations with Wilhelm Brauneder , Herbert Hofmeister and Thomas Olechowski , as well as 15  dissertations . The number of dissertations is low compared to the number of around eleven thousand students who Werner Ogris supervised or had to examine in lectures, compulsory exercises, seminars, because according to older study regulations, the legal doctorate in Austria is not a dissertation, but only the taking of oral exams ( Rigorous ) required.

Awards

Werner Ogris has received several academic honors and prizes, including honorary doctorates from Charles University in Prague and Comenius University in Bratislava in 1993 . In 1997 he received the Brothers Grimm Prize from the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1998 he was awarded the Medal of Honor of the University of Prague to commemorate the founding of the university on April 7, 1348 and in 2003 the Great Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria (1952) .

Works

Werner Ogris' list of publications contains well over 100 titles. In the collection of works published on the occasion of his retirement, they include pp. 809–831. The following publications only describe the core areas of Werner Ogris' work.

• The medieval annuity contract . A contribution to the history of German private law . (= Viennese legal history works. Volume VI). Vienna-Munich 1961.
• The conventual mortgages in the medieval monastery . In: Austrian Archive for Canon Law . Born in 1962. pp. 104–143.
• The development of Austrian private law in the 19th century. (= Series of publications of the legal society ). Berlin 1968.
• The science of common Roman law and the Austrian general civil code . In: Helmut Coing , Walter Wilhelm: Science and Codification of Private Law in the 19th Century. Volume I. (= Studies on Law of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1). Frankfurt 1974. pp. 153-172.
• The development of the law in Cisleithanien 1848–1918. In: Adam Wandruszka , Peter Urbanitsch : The Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918. Volume II: Administration and Legal . Vienna 1975. pp. 538-662.
• Periodization problems in legal history. In: Report on the thirteenth Austrian Historians ' Day in Klagenfurt , organized by the Association of Austrian History Associations from May 18 to 21, 1976. (= publications of the Association of Austrian Historical Associations. Volume 21). Klagenfurt 1977.
• Law and State with Maria Theresa . In: Savigny-Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte , Volume 98. Year 1981. pp. 1–29.
• Joseph II .: State and legal reforms. In: Peter F. Barton: In the sign of tolerance . Essays on the tolerance legislation of the 18th century in the kingdoms of Joseph II, their requirements and consequences. (= Studies and Texts on Church History and History , Second Series, Volume VIII). Vienna 1981. Self-published by the Institute for Protestant Church History. Pp. 109-151.
• Don't prohibit me from censorship ! Goethe and freedom of the press . In: Dieter Wilke: Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the Berlin Legal Society. Berlin-New York 1984. pp. 509-527.
• Between absolutism and the rule of law . In: Richard Georg Plaschka , Grete Klingenstein u. a .: Austria in the Europe of the Enlightenment . Continuity and caesura in Europe at the time of Maria Theresa and Joseph II. International Symposium in Vienna 20. – 23. October 1980, Volume I. Vienna 1985. pp. 365-376.
• 1884-1984. One hundred years of law in the house on the Ring . In: Günther Hamann , Kurt Mühlberger , Franz Skacel: 100 years of the University on the Ring. Science and research at the University of Vienna since 1884 (= publication series of the University Archives, University of Vienna . Volume 3). Vienna 1986. pp. 43-64.
• Jacob Grimm and the history of law . In: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Lectures and speeches in the events of the Academy of Sciences and the Georg-August University in Göttingen on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of their birthdays on June 24, 26 and 28, 1985 in the auditorium of the Georg- August University in Göttingen. Göttingen 1986. pp. 65-96.
• Legislation and jurisprudence around 1900. In: Peter Berner, Emil Brix , Wolfgang Mantl: Vienna around 1900. Departure into modernity. Vienna 1986. pp. 232-241.
• Frederick the Great and the Law. In: Oswald Hauser : Friedrich the Great in his time. (= New research on Brandenburg-Prussian history. Volume 8). Cologne-Vienna 1987. pp. 47-92.
• On the history of manorial rule in Austria from the 17th to the 19th century. In: Les Communautés rurales V: Europe occidentale et Amérique. Synthèse Générale. Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin pour l'histoire comparative des institutions XLIV. Bruxelles 1987. pp. 167-178.
• On the development of insurance supervision law and insurance contract law in Austria from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the monarchy. In: Wolfgang Rohrbach: Insurance history of Austria. Volume II: The Era of Classic Insurance. Vienna 1988. Published by the Association of Insurance Companies in Austria . Pp. 1–152.
• On the history and significance of the Austrian General Civil Code ( ABGB ). In: Johan Erauw, Boudewijn Bouckaert, Hubert Bocken, Helmut Gaus, Marcel Storme: Liber Memorialis François Laurent 1810–1887. Brussels 1989. pp. 373-394.
• Horitsuka Seijika toshiteno Goethe (= Goethe as lawyer and statesman ). Translated into Japanese by Akira Wani. In: Nichidokuhougaku  13th 1989. pp. 54-67.
• Joseph von Sonnenfels and the Development of Austrian Criminal Law. In: Luigi Berlinguer: La "Leopoldina". Criminalità e giustizia criminale nelle riforme del settecento Europeo X. Milano 1990. pp. 459-482.
• With the collaboration of Gabriele Schneider: On the history of civil procedure law in Austria in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Università degli studi di Perugia . Consiglio nazionale delle Ricerche: L'Educazione Giuridica VI: Modelli storici della procedura continentale. (= Edizione scientifiche Italiane ), 1994. pp. 499-515.
• King for sale. The Würzburg Treaty between Duke Leopold V and Emperor Heinrich VI. on the extradition of King Richard I on February 14, 1193. In: Karel Malý, Ladislav Soukup: Pocta prof. JUDr. Karlu Malému, DrSc. k 65. narozeninám. Praha: Vydavatelství Karolinum, Univerzita Karlova 1995. ISBN 80-7184-092-0 .
• From the Galgenberg to the Ringtheaterbrand . On the trail of law and crime in Vienna. Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 1997. ISBN 3-205-98611-3 .
• Mozart in family and inheritance law of his time. Engagement . Marriage . Inheritance . Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-205-99161-3 .
• Together with Paul Oberhammer: Introduzione: Il regolamento generale della procedura giudiziaria del 1781. Translated into Italian by Cesare Andreolli and Francesco Ricci. In: Nicola Picardi, Alessandro Giuliani: Testi e documenti per la storia del processo IV: Regolamento giudiziari di Giuseppe II 1781. Milan 1999. pp. XXIX-LX.
• The university reform of the Minister Leo Graf Thun-Hohenstein . Ceremonial lecture on the occasion of the Rector's Day in the Great Festival Hall of the University of Vienna on March 12, 1999. In memory of Hans Lentze, March 14, 1909 - March 24, 1970. (= Wiener Universitätsreden. New series, Volume 8). Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-85114-503-8 .
• Crime scene legal history: Events from the historia iuris presented as puzzles and provided with solutions. Several volumes, including study documents: Vienna 1994. ISBN 3-214-06091-0 . Vienna 1998. ISBN 3-214-06146-1 . Vienna 2001. ISBN 3-214-06166-6 and (workbook) ISBN 3-214-06165-8 . In it for example
  • Arrogance comes before the fall or it was a battle, not to call a battle. How Habsburg came to Austria. Tatort legal history, case 21. In: Legal training and practice - JAP 1996/97, pp. 201–202 (case), 266–267 (solution).
  • Ira principis mors est! or: If someone takes his brother's wife, it is defilement ... They should remain childless ( Lev XX, 21). Henry VIII and the marriage law of his time. Tatort legal history, case 22. In: JAP 1996/97, pp. 263-265 (case), JAP 1997/98, pp. 66-67 (solution).
  • Chi non lavora non mangia! or: I am spared nothing in this world! The assassination attempt on Empress Elisabeth in 1898. Tatort legal history, case 23. In: JAP 1997/98, pp. 72–73 (case), 135–136 (solution).
  • Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus! (?) The Kohlhase affair 1532–40. Tatort legal history, case 24. In: JAP 1997/98, pp. 133-134 (case), 199-200 (solution).
• Joseph v. Sonnenfels: Principles of the Police . (= Library of German State Thought , Volume 12). Munich 2003. ISBN 3-406-51021-3 .
• Together with Thomas Olechowski : Elements of European legal culture (Prvky európskej právnej kultúry) I and II. (Učebné Texty Bratislavskej Vysokej Školy Práva), Bratislavská Visoká Škola Práva, Vienna-Bratislava 2005. (German with Slovak translation).
• Talion (legal history). In: Religion Past and Present (RGG) . Volume VIII. 2005. ISBN 978-3-16-149514-4 . Col. 22-23.
• The censorship in the Metternich era . In: HUMANIORA. Medicine law story. Festschrift for Adolf Laufs on his 70th birthday. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-28439-0 . Pp. 243-256.
• The treatise on inheritance based on WA Mozart. In: MOZART. Experiment Enlightenment in Vienna at the end of the 18th century. Volume of essays on the Mozart exhibition. Edited by Herbert Lachmayer , Da Ponte Institute Vienna. Ostfildern 2006. ISBN 978-3-7757-1689-5 . Pp. 831-842.
• Ubi sponsa ibi sponsalia. WA Mozart's marriage to Konstanze Weber on August 4, 1782. In: Nova & Varia. Journal of the Lawyers' Association. Issue 3. Vienna 2006. pp. 143–145.
• Together with Leopold Auer and Eva Ortlieb: Supreme dishes in Europe. Building blocks of early modern legal systems. (= Sources and research on the highest jurisdiction in the Old Kingdom. Volume 53). Cologne-Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-412-20035-0 .

literature

• Thomas Olechowski: Werner Ogris. Elements of European legal culture. Articles on legal history from 1961-2003. (Werner Ogris' curriculum vitae in the editor's foreword). Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2003. ISBN 3-205-77101-X .
• Austrian Academy of Sciences. Center for Modern and Contemporary History Research (ZNZ). Page of the chairman of the Austrian legal history commission.
• Gerhard Strejcek: Olympians of legal history . In: Wiener Zeitung . 5th July 2015.

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Ogris in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Communication from the Institute for Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna; accessed January 14, 2015.
2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).