Heinrich Brunner

Heinrich Brunner ( born June 21, 1840 in Wels, Upper Austria, † August 11, 1915 Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia ) was an Austrian historian of law.

Life

He was the son of the Linz Statthaltereirats Wenzel Brunner and his wife Josepha ( -1856? ) (1816 -? ). The mother had to provide them with modest means as a young widow, ten children. After attending high school in Linz (1851-1858) and the High School with honors (11 August 1858) studied Brunner, supported by a scholarship from 4 October of the same year law at the University of Vienna. On July 19, 1860, he passed with distinction the legal-historical state examination in Roman law.

Prof. Heinrich seal now won it for the study of German law. On April 8, 1864, he became the Dr. jur. both rights doctorate. On August 5, 1865, Brunner had his habilitation at the Vienna School of Law. On April 22, 1866 he was associate professor at the German University of Lviv, on November 15, 1868 Professor of German law.

On October 1, 1870, he was appointed professor at the University of Prague. On April 20, 1872, he went to the new University of Strasbourg, but already followed at Easter 1873 the call to Berlin with the appointment on 4 December 1872. During the years 1896 and 1897, he was temporarily also rector of the Berlin Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. 1896 Brunner President of the founding committee of the German legal dictionary ( DRW).

On June 3, 1876 in Merseburg Brunner married Anna von Tiedemann ( born April 13, 1848 † December 13, 1912 ), the daughter of the Secret Government Council of Tiedemann. The couple had six sons and two daughters, of whom, however, both girls and the youngest son died in infancy.

In July 1915 he made ​​his jaundice and stomach complaints related to provide too much, which is why he took a cure in Bad Kissingen. There he died on 11 August. On August 14, he was buried in the Matthäikirchhof in Berlin at the side of his wife.

Honors

• On July 3, 1884 Brunner was admitted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
• On January 24, 1896 Pour le Mérite of him was given for Sciences and Arts.
• On October 11, 1910, he was appointed to the real Privy entitled excellence.
• On 27 January 1912 he was elected to the Prussian mansion as a member until 1915.
• In addition, Brunner received a large number of domestic and foreign awards, decorations and honorary doctorates and became a member of academies of science equal to several countries.
• His birth city of Wels made ​​him an honorary citizen.

Works

• The court Exemtionsrecht of Babenberg. Karl Gerold 's Sohn, Vienna 1864 ( digitized, retrieved on July 2, 2013).
• German legal history ( = Systematic Handbook of German law ). 2nd edition. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1906, DNB 450 655 083 (two volumes).
• The origin of trial by jury. Weidmann, Berlin 1871, DNB 456 210 261 ( reprint of the original edition: Scientia, Aalen 1967, digitized, retrieved on July 2, 2013).
• Broad German legal history. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1901, DNB 579 264 734 ( digitized output from 1927, retrieved on July 2, 2013).
• Research on the history of German and French law. Collected Essays. Cotta, Stuttgart 1894, DNB 579 264 718 ( table of contents as a PDF document, 185 KB, accessed on July 2, 2013).
• Heinrich Brunner, Karl Rauch ( eds.): Essays on the history of law. Collected Essays. Böhlau, Weimar, DNB 560,385,935th