Oswald Balzer
Oswald Marian Balzer ( born January 23, 1858 in Chodorow, † January 11, 1933 in Lviv ) was a historian of Polish society and legislation.
Life
His father, Franz Balzer, was an Austrian official. The young Oswald attended elementary school in Chodoriw, then he learned in the Imperial and Royal Roman Catholic model school in Lviv. He then attended the 3rd K.u.K. Franz -Josef -Gymnasium in Lviv. After graduation in 1878 he began his studies at the Law Faculty of the University Lvov. In the fourth year of study, he attended the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
Balzer habilitated in 1885 due to the paper " The genesis of the Royal Tribunal ". In 1887 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Lviv, where he worked in the period 1887-1933.
In 1890 he was appointed a full professor of the Polish private law and the history of Polish law. In 1891 he was appointed director of the Provincial Archives of circular and basic records in Lviv.
In 1902 he represented the government of the crown land Galicia and Lodomeria in the dispute between Galicia and Hungary to the sea eye - mountain lake in the Tatras. The matter was decided by the arbitration court in Graz in favor of Galicia. The time limit specified applies today.
He was always party affiliation. During the Polish-Soviet war in August 1920, the Staatsabwehrrat it has proposed the function of Chairman of the State Defence tribunal. In 1921 he became the first representative of the Polish scientists with the Order of the White Eagle.
He was founder in 1901 and many years as chairman of the Lviv Scientific Society, member of the Polish Academy of scholarship in Krakow, the Academies of Sciences in Prague, St. Petersburg, Sofia, Zagreb, Warsaw Scientific Society.
He was honored by five universities with an honorary doctorate:
- Jan Kazimierz University Lviv 1903
- Charles University in Prague in 1909
- Warsaw University 1921
- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan 1926
- Stefan Batory University in Vilnius 1928.
He was buried in the Łyczakowski Cemetery in Lviv.