Heinrich Hermann Fitting

Heinrich Hermann fitting ( born August 27, 1831 in Mauchenheim; † December 3, 1918 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Fitting 1848-52 studied at the Universities of Würzburg, Heidelberg ( under Karl Adolph von Vangerow ) and Erlangen, where he in 1852 received his doctorate of rights and his inaugural dissertation published On the Concept of main and counter-evidence and related issues (Erlangen, 1853).

After 1852-54 undergone the Bavarian administrative and judicial practice and in 1855 spent several months in Paris to meet the French litigation practice, he habilitated in 1856 with the writing on the Philosophy of retraction (Erlangen, 1856) in Heidelberg as a private Roman law and process.

In 1857 he became an associate and the following year professor of Roman law at the University of Basel. Here he wrote the monograph The Nature of Korrealobligationen (Erlangen, 1859) and the academic program over the age of the writings of Roman jurists of Hadrian to Alexander (Basel 1860).

In the fall of 1862 he was appointed as a full professor in Halle. In addition to numerous articles in journals, including the archives for the zivilistische practice, he has helped to publication since 1864, and its editorial it since the death of Charles Joseph Mittermaier (1867 ) is mainly concerned, and a comprehensive historical- dogmatic monograph: The castrense peculium (Hall 1871), he wrote yet another valuable legal history work.

Works

• History of the soldiers Testament (Hall 1866)
• About the so-called. Turin Gloss institutions and the so-called Brachylogus (Hall 1870)
• Gloss on the Exceptiones legum Romanorum of Peter ( Hall 1874);
• On the history of jurisprudence at the beginning of the Middle Ages (Hall 1875)
• Legal writings of the earlier Middle Ages (Hall 1876)
• About the home and the age of the so-called Brachylogus (Berlin 1880)
• The Imperial Civil Procedure ( 6th edition, Berlin 1884)
• The Empire Bankruptcy Law ( 2nd ed, Berlin 1883)