Levin Goldschmidt

Levin Goldschmidt (* May 30, 1829 in Gdansk, † July 16, 1897 in Bad Wilhelm height ) was a German jurist and commercial lawyer.

Life

Levin Goldschmidt studied from 1847 to 1851 first medicine, then jurisprudence in Berlin, Bonn and Heidelberg. In Berlin, he belonged to the country club Normannia. In 1851 he graduated from the University of Halle legal doctorate, with a theme about limited partnerships ( De societate en commandite - Specimen I), and then worked at the Danzig courts.

After he was habilitated in 1855 at the University of Heidelberg on a Digest place with the thesis the l 122 § 1 D. de VO [ 45.1 ], he worked as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. There he was in 1860 appointed extraordinary, and in 1866 a full professor of law. In August 1870 he was federal, later appointed as counsel in the kingdom of Upper Commercial Court to Leipzig in 1875 as a professor at the specially erected for him first chair of commercial law, and Privy Councillor to the University of Berlin. Goldschmidt in 1873 because of its outstanding legal ability in the Vorkommission to develop a uniform civil code for Germany, the Civil Code, was appointed. In the following commissions in the years 1874 and 1890, who actually dealt with the formulation of the Civil Code, Goldschmidt was probably, however, not ordered because of his Jewish ancestry to his great disappointment.

Political activity

Goldschmidt but was also active in politics. As an ardent supporter of the unification of Germany by Bismarck, to the exclusion of Austria, he was in 1875 elected to the Reichstag, where he was a member of the National Liberal Party vice-chairman of the Commission on the Bankruptcy Act.

Services

He has of the universal treatment; By reason of the journal for the entire Trade Law ( 1858) as by its in great scale -scale, but incomplete retarded, Handbook of commercial law (2nd edition 1874-1883 Erlangen, 1864-1868, Volume 1 ) commercial law acquired the greatest merits. As representatives of the Romanists he tried doing commercial law institutions based on historical studies of medieval trade, in particular to prove the shops of Italian merchants.

He was also one of the first, which stressed the need for a German Civil Code with determination, and served in the committee appointed by the Federal Commission for the detection of plan and method of this Code as a speaker.

At the decisions of the Federal ( then Imperial ) Upper Commercial Court (Stuttgart 1870-1880, 25 volumes ), he had a prominent part. From the city of Leipzig he was in the summer of 1875 as its representative in the German Reichstag chosen.

Works (selection)

Besides many papers in journals he wrote:

  • Criticism of the draft trade - Code for the Prussian states (Heidelberg 1857 2 departments )
  • The Lucca - Pistoia - share dispute (Frankfurt aM 1859, Supplement 1861)
  • Advice on the design of a German Commercial Code after the decisions at second reading ( Erlangen 1860)
  • Encyclopedia of Law in plan (Heidelberg 1862)
  • Handbook of commercial law Volume 1, part 1
  • Volume 2, Part 2
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
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