Fritz Schulz (jurist)

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Fritz Schulz (16 June 1879 – 12 November 1957) was a German

Jewish
origins.

Life

Schulz was born in

Deutsche Demokratische Partei
, a left-of-center liberal party, which was among the staunchest supporters of the fragile democratic system in Germany.

In 1931, Schulz accepted a call to the University of Berlin. At the time, a professorship in Berlin was considered the most prestigious post a legal scholar could achieve in his career.

However, Schulz's brilliant academic career was brutally interrupted when it had just reached its peak. In 1934, Schulz was forcibly transferred to the University of Frankfurt am Main and then forced to retirement in 1935. In spite of this, Schulz stayed in Germany. Only in 1939 he emigrated, first to the Netherlands and then to Oxford (England). In Oxford, Schulz managed to survive due to financial support from various sources including Oxford University Press and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Schulz did not return to stay in Germany after the war. In 1947, he became a British subject. Schulz did, however, give a series of guest lectures at German universities after the war.

In 1949 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt am Main. He was honoured with a

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
in Rome (1952). He died in Oxford.

Werner Flume, one of Germany's most influential jurists in the second half of the 20th century, is a pupil of Fritz Schulz.

Scholarly achievements

Schulz is best known today for his vivid and very readable works on Roman law and Roman legal science. Even though he followed the prevalent scientific trend of his day and tended to assume a large number of

Unjustified Enrichment
today.

Works

  • Sabinus-Fragmente in Ulpians Sabinus-Commentar (Halle: M. Niemeyer, 1906)
  • System der Rechte auf den Eingriffserwerb in: Archiv für die civilistische Praxis, vol. 105 (1909)[1]
  • Einführung in das Studium der Digesten (Tübingen: Verlag von J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1916)
  • Die epitome Ulpiani des Codex vaticanus reginæ 1128, edited by F. Schulz (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1926)
  • Prinzipien des Römischen Rechts, Vorlesungen gehalten an der Universität Berlin von Fritz Schulz (München – Leipzig: Verlag Duncker & Humblot, 1934)[2]
  • History of Roman Legal Science (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946)
  • Classical Roman Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951, 1954 printing)[3]
  • Geschichte der römischen Rechtswissenschaft (Weimar: H. Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1961)
  • Thomae Diplovatatii Liber de claris iuris consultis. Pars posterior, curantibus F. Schulz, H. Kantorowicz, G. Rabotti (Bononiae: Institutum Gratianum, c1968)

References

  1. ^ Schulz's best known contribution to modern law, still a classic in the field of unjustified enrichment.
  2. ^ Principles of Roman Law, translated from a text revised and enlarged by the author, by M. Wolff (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936). The English text of the last series of lectures Schulz gave in 1933 before the Nazis prohibited him to continue his teaching.
  3. ISBN 3-511-09224-8

Further reading
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