!!!Unger, Joseph

Unger, Joseph, b. Vienna, July 2, 1828, 
d. Vienna, May 2, 1913. Law scholar, politician, founder of the 
"Historical School of Austrian Civil Law Studies" as a history-based 
philosophical antithesis to positivist jurisprudence. In 1853 he 
became University Professor for Civil Law in Prague, then in Vienna; 
as German liberal politician became member of the Upper Chamber of the 
Reichsrat. From 1871 to 79 Minister without Portfolio, 1881 to 1913 
President of the Reichsgericht court.

!Works
Die Ehe in ihrer welthist. Entwicklung, 1850; System des oe. 
allg. Privatrechts, 1856-1864; Sammlung zivilrechtl. Entscheidungen 
des obersten Gerichtshofes in Wien, 1859ff. (with J. Glaser).



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