Béni Grosschmid (6 November 1852 – 7 September 1938), also known as Beno Zsögöd, was a
Hungarian jurist. With
Gusztáv Szászy-Schwarz, he was the leading Hungarian scholar of civil law at around the turn of the century.
Grosschmid served in the administration, the courts and since 1882 as professor of
Austria
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n and Hungarian civil law at the universities of
Budapest
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and
Kolozsvár. He drafted the first codifications of Hungarian family and marriage law. In the domains of property and inheritance law, he argued for a revival of
feudalist
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Hungarian private law, but his works also pioneered a capitalist code of commerce.
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Hungarian jurists
1852 births
1938 deaths
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