Albert Mosse

Isaac Albert Mosse ( born October 1, 1846 in Gratz, then province of Posen in Prussia, † May 31, 1925 in Berlin) was a lawyer and legal advisor to the Meiji government in Japan.

Mosse went to high school in Lissa and Goben. He then studied at the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin Jura and put the two legal state examinations (1868 and 1873) from. He was a volunteer veterans of the Franco-German War. In 1873 he was a junior barrister.

In 1875 he was an assistant judge at the district court in Berlin, in 1886, finally Landrichter and 1888, he was appointed county magistrate. At the invitation of the Japanese government, he was from 1886-1890 Cabinet of advisors.

After his stay in Japan, he settled as a prosecutor in Königsberg. In 1903 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg, where he honorary professor of civil procedure and commercial law was in the following year. In 1907 he gave up his court post because he had been passed over because of his Jewish ancestry for a promotion. So he returned to Berlin, where he became involved in public affairs as an alderman and in the Jewish community.

Mosses importance lies in its contribution to the development of the Japanese Meiji Constitution, and in his continuation of the Commercial Law Commentary by Felix Lithuanians. Furthermore, collaborated on the revision of international treaties of Japan. Mosse had significant influence in the development of the Japanese community, district, and provincial regulations.

Mosses brother was the Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse. His daughter Martha Mosse was the first police Councillor Prussia.

Works

• Commercial Code. (Without maritime law. ) With the supplementary provisions of the Civil Code and an appendix, containing the introduction of law ... In addition to explanations. Limit. by F [ elix ] Lithuanians. New Edit. of A [ lbert ] Mosse. 16th Ed Guttentag, Berlin & Leipzig 1920. ( Reprint 1925. ) Since the 13th edition, 1905 ed. A. Mosse; fortges. in the 17th Ed 1925 by Ernst Heymann.
• The draft a Reich law "about the damage caused by civil unrest ". In: German JuristenZeitung 24 (1919), 711-716 Sp. ZDB - ID 2173669-8. Online.