Karl Larenz, born 23 April 1903 in Wesel, Germany, and who died 24 January 1993 in Olching, Germany, was a German legal scholar and philosopher who studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, Marburg University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Gottingen, completing a doctorate in law in 1926 on Hegel and a habilitation in 1929 at Gottingen. He began teaching law at Kiel University in 1933 and joined the Nazi Party in 1937, becoming one of the leading Nazi legal theorists in the domain of civil law; he was banned from teaching after the Second World War until 1949, after which he taught again at Kiel and, from 1960, at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He authored influential textbooks including the 1953 Lehrbuch des Schuldrechts on the law of obligations and the 1960 Methodenlehre der Rechtswissenschaft on legal methodology, both of which remained in print into the twenty-first century.
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What happened to Karl Larenz's teaching career after the Second World War?
The British military government retired him in 1947; he was reactivated at Kiel three years later.
Before the 1947 summer semester the British military government placed Karl Larenz in permanent retirement because of his National Socialist past. Three years later he was reactivated as a teacher of law at the University of Kiel, and in 1960 he accepted a call to the University of Munich.
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He is known for his influential contributions to German civil law, as well as for being one of the leading Nazi legal theorists in the domain of civil law.
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Karl Larenz, born 23 April 1903 in Wesel, Germany, and who died 24 January 1993 in Olching, Germany, was a German legal scholar and philosopher who studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, Marburg University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Gottingen, completing a doctorate in law in 1926 on Hegel and a habilitation in 1929 at Gottingen.
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Karl Larenz (23 April 1903, Wesel - 24 January 1993, Olching) was a German jurist and philosopher of law.
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He is known for his influential contributions to German civil law, as well as for being one of the leading Nazi legal theorists in the domain of civil law.
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was a German jurist and philosopher of law
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Wikidata Q71144, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1903
Wikidata Q71144, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1903-04-23
Wikidata Q71144, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1993
Wikidata Q71144, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1993-01-24
Wikidata Q71144, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Wesel
Wikidata Q71144, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Olching
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