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Karl von Amira
Born(1848-03-08)8 March 1848
Aschaffenburg, Germany
Died22 June 1930(1930-06-22) (aged 82)
Munich, Germany
NationalityGerman
AwardsBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1902)
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  • Claudius von Schwerin [de]
  • Eberhard von Künßberg [de]
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Karl Konrad Ferdinand Maria von Amira (25 May 1863 – 14 December 1945) was a German jurist who served as Professor of Constitutional Law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was a known expert on early Germanic law.

Biography

Karl von Amira was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany on 8 March 1848. Gaining his abitur at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich, von Amira studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Among his teachers were Bernhard Windscheid, Julius Wilhelm von Planck, Paul von Roth [de] and Alois von Brinz. He also studied North Germanic languages under Konrad Maurer. von Amira gained his Ph.D. at Munich in 1872 under the supervision of Maurer.

From 1875 to 1892, von Amira was Professor of German and Church Law at the University of Freiburg. Since 1892, von Amira was Professor of Constitutional Law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. von Amira specialized in the study of Early Germanic law and Medieval Roman law. He was instrumental in the publishing of the Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch. Among his students were Claudius von Schwerin [de] and Eberhard von Künßberg [de]. von Amira was a member of many learned societies, including the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (since 1901), the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (since 1887), the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (since 1891), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (since 1905), the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1900), the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1922) and the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities (since 1929). He received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 1902.

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