Ernst Zitelmann si:tlman(7 August 1852,

Stettin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin language, Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Po ...

– 28 November 1923,

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) was a German

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who specialized in the dogmatics of civil law.Thibaut - Zycha
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Walther Killy Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Göttinge ...

''Dictionary of German Biography'' He studied law at the universities of

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and

. In 1873, he got his dissertation at the university of Leipzig with the topic "''Begriff und Wesen der juristischen Person''" ("concept and constitution of a legal person"). Bonn Villa Sell Zitelmann 1893

Later on, he received great public attention by publishing an article on "''Die juristische Willenserklärung''" ("the juridical declaration of intent", 1878) and a monograph named "''Irrtum und Rechtsgeschäft''" ("error and act of legal significance", 1879). Because of that, he was nominated as an associate professor at the

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in 1879. Some months later he went to the

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as a full professor. He taught as a

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at the University of Rostock (1879-1881), the

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(1881-1884), and the

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(1884-1921). At Bonn, he taught classes in German civil law and Roman law. Zitelmann died after an unsuccessful operation in 1923 in

. In Bonn-Gronau, a street has been named after Zitelmann since 1929.

Literary works

* ''Begriff und Wesen der juristischen Person'', 1873 * ''Die juristische Willenserklärung'', 1878 * ''Irrtum und Rechtsgeschäft'', 1879 * ''Die Möglichkeit des Weltrechts'', 1888 * ''Verschulden gegen sich selbst'', 1900 (lost) * ''Das Recht des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches'', 1900 * ''Internationales Privatrecht'', 2 vols., 1897–1912. He was also the author of a book of

prose poetry Prose poetry is poetry written in prose form instead of verse form, while preserving poetic qualities such as heightened imagery, parataxis, and emotional effects. Characteristics Prose poetry is written as prose, without the line breaks associ ...

titled ''Radierungen und Momentaufnahmen'' (1903).

References and external links

* Eboo
''Das Recht des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches''
1900 (hosted by

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) 1852 births 1923 deaths Lawyers from Szczecin German jurists People from the Province of Pomerania University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of the University of Göttingen Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Heidelberg University alumni Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of the University of Rostock {{Germany-law-bio-stub

Literary works

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