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BRUNNER, HENRY (184o– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 685 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRUNNER, See also:HENRY (184o– ) , See also:German historian, was See also:born at Weis in Upper See also:Austria on the 22nd of See also:June 184o. After studying at the See also:universities of See also:Vienna, See also:Gottingen and See also:Berlin, he became See also:professor at the university of See also:Lemberg in 1866, and in See also:quick See also:succession held similar positions at See also:Prague, See also:Strassburg and Berlin. From 1872 Brunner devoted himself especially to studying the See also:early See also:laws and institutions of the See also:Franks and kindred peoples of western See also:Europe, and on these subjects his researches have been of supreme value. He also became a leading authority on See also:modern German See also:law. He became a member of the Berlin See also:Academy of Sciences in 1884, and in 1886, after the See also:death of G. See also:Waitz, undertook the supervision of the Leges See also:section of the Monumenta Germaniae historica. His See also:chief See also:works are: See also:Die Entstehung der Schwurgerichte (Berlin, 1872); Zeugen and Inquisitionsbeweis der karolingischen Zeit (Vienna, 1866); Das anglonormannische Erbfolgesystem, nebst einem Excurs fiber die lilteren normannischen Coutumes (See also:Leipzig, 1869); Zur Rechtsgeschichte der romischen and germanischen Urkunde (Berlin, 188o); Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte (Leipzig, 1887–1892); Mithio and Sperantes (Berlin, 1885); Die Landschenkungen der Merowinger and Agilolfinger (Berlin, 1885); Das Gerichtszeugnis and die frankische Konigsurkunde (Berlin, 1873); Forschungen zur Geschichte See also:des deutschen and franzosischen Rechts (See also:Stuttgart, 1894); Grundziige der deulschen Rechtsgeschichte (Leipzig, 1901).

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