Prof. Egon Weiss

Birth record: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000141887353443 BRNO (o. Brno-město) HBMa 124 N 1880-1895 (i, zpětné zápisy ze 70. let), p.5, line 37, reproduction 7 of 313

Professor at the University of Prague https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Wei%C3%9F https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Weiss

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, and during his studies he also completed a stay in Leipzig with the novelist Mitteis , who greatly influenced him for his further scientific career . In 1910, he completed his habilitation on his alma mater on the basis of a comparative work on liens in antiquity and contemporary law , and nine years later he was appointed extraordinary professor here and in 1933 a full professor of Roman law. In 1940, however, he was forced to leave the university due to his Jewish origin. Egon Weiss got his lectures and scientific activities again only after the Second World War, as an honorary professor of civil law and legal history at the University of Innsbruck . He also received honorary doctorates from the universities of Athens and Washington . [2] [3]

Not only during his work in Prague, he dealt mainly with the law of obligations and procedural law , whether historical or the then Central European regulations. He also wrote popular comments on various laws in the areas of civil or commercial and bill of exchange law, which he supplemented with the current case law of the Supreme Court and comparisons with developments in independent Austria . However, his main work is considered to be the historical work Griechisches Privatrecht auf rechtsvergleichender (1923). Due to his reputation, Professor Weiss was invited by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Justice to work on the recodification of the General Civil Code , where he chaired a commission on the law of obligations and on the adjustment of damages.[3]