Kurt Lipstein

Kurt Lipstein QC ( born March 19, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main, † December 2, 2006 in Cambridge, UK) was a native of Germany legal scholar and professor at Cambridge University.

Life

Kurt Lipstein studied after graduating from the Frankfurter Goethe -Gymnasium from 1927 law, first at the University of Grenoble ( now the University Joseph Fourier ) and from 1927 to 1931 at the Friedrich -Wilhelm University of Berlin (now Humboldt University of Berlin) with Wolff and Rabel and von Caemmerer and Mezger. His classical education in Greek and Latin, later allowed him a deeper insight into the Roman law. After his studies, he completed a clerkship in Königstein im Taunus and the District Court in Frankfurt am Main.

With the assumption of power by the Nazis in 1933, he lost his job as a Jewish Assessor. In 1934 he emigrated to England. At Trinity College, Cambridge, he was in 1936 with the work " Roman Law: the beneficium cedendarum actionum " doctorate. For financial reasons Lipstein could be offered no scientific apprenticeship, only Harold Gutteridge, Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge, hired him as a lecturer and paid him out of pocket.

With the outbreak of the Second World War he was in 1940 in a British refugee camp in Bury St Edmunds and later interned Liverpool. In the camps, he learned many other non-British scholars know, as the grandson of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II At the camp itself scientifically based lectures were held. At the request of the University of Cambridge, he was released and taught at the Faculty of Law. In 1956 he became an official member of Clare College (so-called fellow ). In 1973 he was appointed professor of comparative law. In 1977 he was on his retirement with a LL.D. ( " Legum Doctor" ) awarded.

Lipstein was the last living lawyer who emigrate to the Nazi seizure of power in Germany to England and had to build a new life in research and teaching there.

Kurt Lipstein was one of the most renowned experts in private international law and has left important traces in the transnational area and also specifically in the English conflict of laws there. He was also co-editor of the monumental work Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law. He owes the German law in particular through his work after 1945 much.