Ernst Zitelmann

Zitelmann Ernst ( born August 7, 1852 in Stettin, † November 28, 1923 in Bonn ) was a German jurist and writer.

Life

The son of the Privy Council Government Otto Konrad Zitelmann (1814-1889) visited the Marienstift Gymnasium in Stettin. He then studied law in Leipzig, Heidelberg and Bonn. In the winter of 1871/72 he became a member of the Leipzig University singers shaft to St. Pauli (today German singer shaft ). He received his PhD in 1873 on " the concept and nature of the legal person " in Leipzig. The clerkship in Szczecin 1876, he broke off to become a habilitation at the University of Göttingen.

He became known through the essays on "The legal declaration of intent " (1878 ) and " error and transaction" (1879 ). 1879 Zitelmann was appointed to the chair of Roman and civil law at the University of Rostock. In 1881 he went to the University of Halle and returned to his appointment by December 22, 1883 in 1884 as a full professor with the Department of Roman Law to Bonn, where he taught until 1921. From 1922 he was a visiting professor at the University of Munich. Twice he was rector of the University of Bonn. Among the graduate students of Ernst Zitelmann heard the playwright Hans Fritz von Zwehl.

Zitelmann was one of the most important jurists of modern law. He worked on the Civil Law, the family, inheritance, tax and business law. It is important today because of his work on dogmatics of civil law. Zitelmann also examined the role of value judgments in the case law ( " gaps in the law," 1903; "The Art of legislation," 1904; " Judicial bondage and freedom," 1905). Zitelmann presented proposals for reform of legal education ( " The revision of the legal studies ", 1921): A two-year foundation course, the practical training and an advanced study of the targeted career to follow.

Zitelmann was active as a writer, as well as his sister Catherine Zitelmann (pseudonym: K. Rinhart ). He died in 1923 after an operation.

Zitelmann led a marriage with Elisabeth von Conta (* 1852 † 1934), emerged three daughters from 1881 to 1884, two more daughters already died in infancy. After he had received in 1884 his teaching career at the University of Bonn, he moved in the fall of this year, the former villa of the late University professor and former teacher Karl Zitelmanns Sell ( 1810-1879 ). In this he was taken in 1875 in the classical - picturesquen Villa on the Rhine and had - impressed by the scenic location - his desire given expression to live there once as a professor. First Zitelmann rented the Villa of Sells heirs, no later than 1891, she went to his own home about - this year he had an extension built. 1912 Zitelmann purchased add another, closest to the right bank of the Rhine Villa. The former Villa Sell therefore he could sell in July 1918; 1953/54, it was broken for the new post Ministry.

Works

Legal writings

• Concept and nature of the legal person. In 1873.
• The legal declaration of intent. In 1878.
• Error and legal transaction. In 1879.
• The possibility of world law. , 1888.
• Negligence against himself in 1900.
• The right of the Civil Code. In 1900. ( Digitized ).
• Private International Law. From 1897 to 1912.

Beautiful Literature

• Poems., 1881.
• Memento vivere. In 1894.
• Capri. Poems. In 1901.
• Etchings and snapshots. In 1904.
• Aphorisms. , 1908.
• Memoirs. . Bonn 1924 ( urn: nbn: de: HBZ :5:1 - 25837 )