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Emil Seckel (10 January 1864, Neuenheim near
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at www.library.tohoku.ac.jp 1864 births 1924 deaths Jurists from Heidelberg 20th-century German historians Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences People from the Grand Duchy of Baden University of Tübingen alumni Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin German male non-fiction writers 19th-century German historians {{Germany-law-bio-stub
Emil Seckel (10 January 1864, Neuenheim near Heidelberg
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– 26 April 1924, Todtmoos
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) was a German jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal education in law (a law degree) and often a Lawyer, legal prac ...
and law historian.
Emil Seckel studied law at the University of Tübingen
The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (; ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...
. Seckel professor in 1898. In 1901 Seckel took over the professorship for Roman law
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Roman law also den ...
at the University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...
. On December 7, 1911, he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences () was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin Academy" may also refer. In the 18th century, when Frenc ...
. In 1920, Seckel was appointed rector of the Humboldt University
The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public university, public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
The university was established by Frederick William III of Prussia, Frederick W ...
in Berlin as the successor to the historian Eduard Meyer
Eduard Meyer (25 January 1855 – 31 August 1930) was a German historian. He was the brother of Celticist Kuno Meyer (1858–1919).
Biography
Meyer was born in Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums and later at the unive ...
. The chemist Walther Nernst
Walther Hermann Nernst (; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped ...
succeeded him in 1921.
Seckel's main areas of research were jurisprudence and especially Roman law. The edition of the collection of the capitularies
A capitulary (medieval Latin ) was a series of legislative or administrative acts emanating from the Frankish court of the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties, especially that of Charlemagne, the first emperor of the Romans in the west since th ...
of Benedictus Levita
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was one of his central fields of work. The central management of the ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica
The (Latin for "Historical Monuments of Germany"), frequently abbreviated MGH, is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of parts of Northwestern, Central and Souther ...
'' assigned him the task of preparing the publication of a new edition in 1896 after the editor responsible Victor Krause suddenly died at the age of 31. Before his death Seckel had published more than a thousand pages of research on the sources, but was unable to present a new edition of ''Benedictus Levita''.
His sons included the pediatrician Helmut Paul George Seckel Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth.
From Old High German, old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood").
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(1900-1960), for whom the Seckel syndrome
Seckel syndrome, or microcephalic primordial dwarfism (also known as bird-headed dwarfism, Harper's syndrome, Virchow–Seckel dwarfism and bird-headed dwarf of Seckel) is an extremely rare congenital nanosomic disorder. Inheritance is autosomal r ...
is named, and the art historian Dietrich Seckel.
Literary works
* ''Beiträge zur Geschichte beider Rechte Mittelalter'', 1898 * ''Gestaltungsrechte des bürgerlichen Rechts'', 1903External links
* http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/kataloge/literaturnachweise/seckel/literatur.pdf東北大学附属図書館／特殊文庫
at www.library.tohoku.ac.jp 1864 births 1924 deaths Jurists from Heidelberg 20th-century German historians Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences People from the Grand Duchy of Baden University of Tübingen alumni Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin German male non-fiction writers 19th-century German historians {{Germany-law-bio-stub