Herbert Oskar Meyer

Herbert Oscar Meyer ( born February 10, 1875 in Breslau, † March 6, 1941 in Berlin) was a German jurist and legal historian.

Life

Herbert Meyer was born the son of the physicist Oskar Emil Meyer and Antonie Stosch, his younger brothers were the historian Arnold Oskar Meyer (1877-1944) and the geologist Oskar Erich Meyer ( 1883-1939 ). His father was a professor at the University of Breslau.

Herbert Meyer studied 1893-1899 Germanic philology at the universities of Strasbourg and Wroclaw. In Breslau from 1895 he concentrated on Jura, where he was briefly a PhD after the state examination also on 12 March 1900. After his habilitation on 7 February 1903, he was Associate Professor of German law in Breslau, then changed for the years 1904 to 1906 as an associate professor at the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena.

For October 1, 1906 Meyer returned as a full professor in Breslau. From 1918 he taught at the Georg -August- University Göttingen, which he was Rector from 1929 to 1930. In 1937 he followed a call to Berlin.

Since 1904, Meyer was married to Toni Schauenburg, the marriage remained childless.

Work

Even before the habilitation thesis on the history of the lien, which specializes in legal history Meyer had in 1902 presented an important work to Germanic law Fahrni persecution. With results from the fact that he expanded again, he has also influenced the legal doctrine of applicable law.

In the second phase of his creative Meyer fell back on his dissertation topic and worked increasingly on family law. Especially the mother-right and the relationship between marriage and Friedel Muntehe bothered him.

The value of Meyer's work from his last decade of life, is considered by his turn to Nazism compromised, ( Gerhard Grill ) is attributed to his " desire for a 'true national community .'"

Works

• The Muehlhaeuser imperial law book from the beginning of the 13th century: Germany's oldest law book after the altmittelalterlichen manuscripts edited, introduced and translated. Weimar: Böhlaus successor, 1934.