Stephan Kuttner

Stephan George Kuttner ( born March 24, 1907 in Bonn, † August 12 1996 in Berkeley ) was a German -American canon.

Stephan Kuttner came from a Jewish- Protestant family and was the son of the civil law expert Georg Kuttner. At the universities of Frankfurt and Freiburg, he studied law. In 1928 he went to the criminal lawyer Edward Kohlrausch to Berlin. In 1930 he received his doctorate in Kohlrausch work with the legal nature of the false evidence statement. In 1932 he converted to Catholicism. With Kohlrausch also habilitation has been agreed with a theme about the guilt teaching and the intellectual origins in the canon law. But the National Socialist seizure of power prevented the habilitation. In Rome Kuttner found a job in the Vatican Library. In 1937 he became professor at the Lateran University. With the introduction of racial laws in Fascist Italy was Kuttner stay there too increasingly dangerous. The resort brought in 1940, the call to the Catholic University of America. In 1964 he went as Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at Yale University. In 1970 he was appointed to Berkeley. There he worked until 1988.

His most important works are the canonical debt doctrine of 1935 and the Repertory of Canon Law of 1937. Repertory was the first time an overview of the canonical manuscripts of Europe from the period 1140-1234. , It is still one of the main tools of a working over the High Middle Ages canonists. In 1943 he founded the magazine traditions. In 1955, he established the Institute of Medieval Canon Law, which was renamed in 1996 in Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law. Pope Paul VI. appointed him in 1967 in the Commission for the preparation of the new Code of Canon Law. Kuttner received at least seventeen honorary doctorates in various countries (including 1978 honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge ). In 1969 he was honored with the Order Pour le Mérite. He was, inter alia, Member of the Medieval Academy of America and the Institute of France. For achtizigsten birthday it dedicated the canonical division of Journal of Savigny Foundation for Legal History a band.

Writings

  • Studies in the history of medieval canon law. Aldershot, 1990, ISBN 0-86078-274-3.
  • Gratian and the schools of law. From 1140 to 1234. London 1983, ISBN 0-86078-133- X.
  • Repertory of Canon Law (1140-1234) = Prodromus corporis glossarum. Città del Vaticano 1937.
  • Canonist doctrine of promissory Gratian to the Decretals of Gregory IX. : Systematically presented on the basis of manuscript sources. Città del Vaticano 1935
  • The legal nature of the false evidence statement. A contribution to the history and taxonomy of the oath offenses, at the same time the question of limiting the prosecution to significant false statements. Berlin 1931.
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