Biography
https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.72.4.06
Bertold Eisner - The First Professor of Family Law in Croatia
Nenad Hlača
orcid.org/0000-0002-5870-2377
; Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
In the academic years 1946-1947, Bertold Eisner was the first professor of Family Law in Croatia as an independent subject at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. The biography of this great jurist shows that European integration did not begin with the founding of the Coal and Steel Community in Paris in 1951 with the purpose of creating a common market for coal and steel. Indeed, European civilisation had long since reached the eastern outskirts of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
We trace a logical path of interest in Roman law, civil and family law, and private international law throughout this extraordinary lawyer’s professional career. Rarely has a professor left such enduring contributions in all of these fields. Despite the fact that the emphasis in the then Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was solely declaratively on the new political, so-called post-revolutionary context, the continued work of this top intellectual after WWII left legal science strongly embedded in the European legal heritage.
Keywords
Bertold Eisner; biography; Roman law; Family law; Private international law
Hrčak ID:
281834
URI
Publication date:
1.9.2022.
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