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Otto Friedrich von Gierke (11 January 1841 – October 10, 1921) was a German legal scholar and historian.

Abroad he was a major influence on the British historian of law F. W. Maitland, who translated as Political Theories of the Middle Ages some of Gierke's major works, and on John Neville Figgis.

Publications

  • Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht (Berlin 1868-1913) 4 volumes
    • vol 1. Rechtsgeschichte der deutschen Genossenschaft (1868) introduction translated by John D Lewis, The Genossenschaft - Theory of Otto von Gierke; A Study in Political Thought (1936) and selections translated by Mary Fischer and Anthony Black as Community in Historical Perspective (1990)
    • vol 2. Geschichte des deutschen Körperschaftsbegriffs (1873)
    • vol 3. Die Staats- und Korporationslehre des Alterthums und des Mittelalters und ihre Aufnahme in Deutschland (1881). Sections 3-5 was translated as Associations and law: The classical and early Christian stages by George Heiman (1977); §11, pages 500-640, 'Die publicistischen Lehren des Mittelalters' was translated by FW Maitland as Political Theories of the Middle Ages (1900).
    • vol 4. Die Staats- und Korporationslehre der Neuzeit (1913) Section V, §§14-8 translated by Ernest Barker as Natural Law and the Theory of Society, 1500 to 1800 (1934).
  • Die soziale Aufgabe des Privatrechts (Berlin 1889) translated by Ewan McGaughey as 'The Social Role of Private Law' (2016)
  • Johannes Althusius und die Entwicklung der naturrechtlichen Staatstheorie (Berlin 1880) translated by Bernard Freyd as The Development of Political Theory (1939)
  • Naturrecht und Deutsches Recht: Rede zum Antritt des Rektorats der Universität Breslau am 15. Oktober 1882 gehalten (Frankfurt 1883)
  • Rudolf von Gneist: Gedächtnissrede gehalten in der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 19. October 1895.
  • Deutsches Privatrecht (Leipzig 1895) 3 volumes
    • 1. Allgemeiner Teil und Personenrecht (1895) on the General Part and the Law of Persons
    • 2. Sachenrecht (1905) on Property Law
    • 3. Schuldrecht (1916) on the Law of Obligations
  • Schuld und Haftung im älteren deutschen Recht, insbesondere die Form der Schuld- und Haftungsgeschäfte (1910)





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