Heinrich Brunner ( en, Henry Brunner; 21 June 1840 – 11 August 1915) was a German historian.

Life

Brunner was born at

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. After studying at the universities of

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and

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, he became professor at the

University of Lemberg The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

in 1866, and in quick succession held similar positions at

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, Strasbourg and

. From 1872 Brunner devoted himself especially to studying the early laws and institutions of the

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and other antique peoples of

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. He also became a leading authority on modern German law. He became a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1884, and in 1887, after the death of Georg Waitz, undertook the supervision of the ''Leges'' section of the '' Monumenta Germaniae Historica'' (MGH). Brunner stayed with the MGH until his death in 1915. This was the first time that a legal scholar led a section of the MGH; Brunner oversaw an extensive overhaul of the section's program (the re-editing of the ''Capitularia'' and the ''Lex Alamannorum'', then the ''Lex Burgundionum'', and finally the ''Lex Baiuvariorum'').

Works

Brunner wrote: *''Die Entstehung der Schwurgerichte'' (Berlin, 1872) *''Zeugen und Inquisitionsbeweis der karolingischen Zeit'' (Vienna, 1866) *''Das anglonormannische Erbfolgesystem. Ein Beitrag zur Parentelenordnung nebst einem Exkurs über die älteren normannischen Coutumes'' (

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

, 1869) *''Zur Rechtsgeschichte der römischen und germanischen Urkunde'' (Berlin, 1880) *''Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte'' (Leipzig, 1887–1892) *''Mithio und Sperantes'' (Berlin, 1885) *''Die Landschenkungen der Merowinger und Agilolfinger'' (Berlin, 1885) *''Die Herkunft der Schoeffen (Berlin, 1888) ransl: The Origin of the Echevin*''Das Gerichtszeugnis und die fränkische Königsurkunde'' (Berlin, 1873) *''Forschungen zur Geschichte des deutschen und franzsöschen Rechts'' (Stuttgart, 1894) *''Grundzüge der deutschen Rechtsgeschichte'' (Leipzig, 1901) He is also the author of the German versions of ''

The Sources of English Law ''The Sources of English Law'' (as it is sometimes known) is an essay written by the German historian Heinrich Brunner and translated by others. In 1909, it was described as a "valuable survey of the sources and literature of English law".J T. ...

''.

References

Attribution *

External links

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Source index
to Heinrich Brunner's "Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte" (University of Cologne, Projec
"Edition of the Frankish Capitularies"
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