Andreas von Tuhr was a Russian-German legal scholar, born in 1864 in Saint Petersburg to an ethnic German family and died in 1925. He studied at Heidelberg, Leipzig and Strasbourg, earning his doctorate in 1885, and held professorships at Basel and Strasbourg before relocating to Zurich after the First World War. His multi-volume Der allgemeine Teil des deutschen burgerlichen Rechts, published from 1910 to 1918, became a classic of German civil law doctrine within the Pandectist tradition, translated twice into Spanish, and his personal library became the founding collection of Kyoto University's civil law library.
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Why is a civil law library at Kyoto University named after Andreas von Tuhr?
Kyoto's civil law library is built on his own book collection and named in his honour.
The civil law library of the University of Kyoto is built on von Tuhr's own collection and is named in his honour. Von Tuhr was a Russian-German jurist whose multi-volume work on the general part of German civil law was described as of European, and not only German, significance, and it was twice translated into Spanish.
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He studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig and Strasbourg and was much influenced by Bernhard Windscheid and Ernst Bekker. He gained his doctorate summa cum laude in 1885 at Heidelberg where his Der Nothstand im Civilrecht was published in 1888. In 1891 he was appointed as lecturer at the University of Basel, and was promoted to full professor in 1893.
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Andreas von Tuhr was a Russian-German legal scholar, born in 1864 in Saint Petersburg to an ethnic German family and died in 1925.
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Andreas von Tuhr (14 February 1864 - 16 December 1925) was a Russian-German jurist, whose work on the fundamental conceptions of private law within the civilian tradition has been of lasting significance.
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occupation/position claim resolves to: Jurist
Wikidata Q501492, P27 country of citizenship claim, additional value 38
citizenship (P27), additional value: German
Wikidata Q501492, P27 country of citizenship claim, additional value 39
citizenship (P27), additional value: Soviet
Wikidata Q501492, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1864
Wikidata Q501492, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1864-02-14
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P570 (date of death): 1925
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P570 (date of death): 1925-12-16
Wikidata Q501492, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Saint Petersburg
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P20 (place of death): Zurich
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