Woldemar August Engelmann

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Woldemar August Engelmann (born May 1, 1865 in Dorpat ; † February 5, 1942 in Marburg ) was a German scholar of criminal law and criminal procedure law and legal historian .

Origin and family

Woldemar Engelmann came from a Livonian aristocratic family , but did not have the title of nobility in Germany .

He was the son of Johannes von Engelmann (* July 7, 1832 in Mitau, † September 17, 1912 in Dorpat), a real secret councilor, professor of the Russian state a. Procedural law in Dorpat and Elisabeth Dorothea, née von Briskorn (born June 1, 1843 in Mitau ; † February 17, 1912 in Mitau).

He was since March 26, 1913 with Cäcilie, geb. Kayser (born August 22, 1879 in Berlin ), the eldest daughter of the geologist and paleontologist at the Philipps University of Marburg Emanuel Kayser , married.

Life

After studying law at the University of Dorpat and at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau as well as receiving his doctorate on December 17, 1892. jur. Engelmann completed his habilitation there on July 15, 1895 for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Leipzig . Engelmann was professor for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Leipzig from 1902 to 1903.

From 1903 until his retirement in 1933 he was a professor at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he held the chair for criminal law, criminal procedural law, civil procedural law, bankruptcy law and military criminal law.

In 1921 and 1922 Woldemar Engelmann was Dean of the Law Faculty of the Philipps University of Marburg. He turned down offers to the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig and Prague.

plant

The special importance of Woldemar Engelmann's work lies in the field of research into medieval Italian law, in particular the services of glossators and post-glossators as well as Italian statutory rights. His main and life work went beyond the field of criminal law and dealt with "The rebirth of legal culture in Italy through scientific teaching" (1938). This book has "aroused admiration at home and abroad as a legal historical masterpiece of lasting value." Engelmann has hereby "brightened up areas that were previously completely undeveloped and made valuable contributions to the intricate questions of the history of German reception beyond the subject directly dealt with".

Fonts

  • The dolus indirectus, its historical development and significance (Diss. 1892)
  • The doctrine of guilt of the postglossators and their further development. A historical-dogmatic presentation of the criminal guilt theory of the Italian jurists of the Middle Ages since Accursius (1895)
  • Error and guilt according to Italian teaching and practice in the Middle Ages (1922)
  • The rebirth of legal culture in Italy through scientific teaching (1938)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5762, p. 174 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c Dietrich Lang-Hinrichsen:  Engelmann, Woldemar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 519 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Engelmann, Woldemar August in the Hessian biography
personal data
SURNAME Engelmann, Woldemar August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kayser, Woldemar August (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of criminal law and criminal procedure law and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1942
Place of death Marburg