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Levin Goldschmidt Born (1829-05-30)30 May 1829 Danzig, Prussia Died 16 July 1897(1897-07-16) (aged 68) Bad Wilhelmshöhe [de], Hesse-Nassau, Prussia Occupation Jurist Education Alma mater University of Berlin University of Bonn University of Heidelberg University of Halle Philosophical work Notable students Max Weber **Levin Goldschmidt** (30 May 1829 – 16 July 1897[1]) was a [German](/source/German_Empire) jurist, judge and academic. He was a Judge at the [Reichsoberhandelsgericht](/source/Reichsoberhandelsgericht) and a professor at the University of Berlin. Between 1875 and 1877 he also served as a member of the [German Parliament](/source/Reichstag_(German_Empire)). ## Life Levin Goldschmidt was born into a German Jewish family in the Prussian city of Danzig in 1829. His parents were David Goldschmidt, a merchant, and Henriette Laser. From 1847 to 1851, Goldschmidt pursued studies at the universities of [Berlin](/source/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin), [Bonn](/source/University_of_Bonn), and [Heidelberg](/source/Heidelberg_University), receiving his doctor's degree in 1851 from the [University of Halle](/source/University_of_Halle). He practised for several years in the courts of [Danzig](/source/Danzig), became *[privatdozent](/source/Privatdozent)* at the University of Heidelberg in 1855, and was appointed associate professor in 1860. During the years 1857 to 1860 he published *Kritik des Entwurfs eines Handelsgesetzbuchs für die Preussischen Staaten* and *Gutachten über den Entwurf eines Deutschen Handelsgesetzbuchs nach den Beschlüssen Zweiter Lesung,* which at once attracted attention to him as a critical jurist. During the same period he published *Der Lucca-Pistoja-Aktienstreit,* [Frankfurt](/source/Frankfurt), 1859 (Supplement, 1861). He was the founder (1858) of the *Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Handelsrecht*. Goldschmidt's scholarship was next displayed in his *Encyclopädie der Rechtswissenschaft im Grundriss,* [Heidelberg](/source/Heidelberg), 1862. He then began the great work which occupied him during the remainder of his life, but which he did not live to complete, namely, *Das Handbuch des Handelsrechts,* [Erlangen](/source/Erlangen), 1864–68. This is the work with which his fame as a historical jurist is identified, it being recognized as a masterly presentation of the general history of [commercial law](/source/Commercial_law). In 1866, Goldschmidt was promoted to a professorship in the law faculty at Heidelberg. He next received the appointment of *Justizrat* in the [Bundesgericht](/source/Bundesgericht_(Germany)) at [Leipzig](/source/Leipzig), afterward occupying a judicial position at the Reichsoberhandelsgericht. In 1875, he became professor of commercial law in Berlin University, and received the title *Geheimer Justizrat.* From 1875 to 1877 he was also a member of the German [Reichstag](/source/Reichstag_(German_Empire)), representing the city of Leipzig. In the late 1880s, Goldschmidt was the doctoral adviser to [Max Weber](/source/Max_Weber), who was awarded his doctoral degree in 1889 for his [dissertation](/source/Dissertation) "Die Entwickelung des Solidarhaftprinzips und des Sondervermögens der offenen Handelsgesellschaft aus den Haushalts- und Gewerbegemeinschaften in den italienischen Städten".[2] The expanded dissertation was published by Weber as *[Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter](/source/Zur_Geschichte_der_Handelsgesellschaften_im_Mittelalter)*.[3] Of Goldschmidt's further publications the following deserve special mention: *Das Dreijährige Studium der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften,* Berlin, 1878; *Erwerbs- und Wirtschaftsgenossenschaften, Studien und Vorschläge,* Stuttgart, 1882; *Rechtsstudium und Prüfungsordnung,* ib. 1887; *Die Haftpflicht der Genossen und das Umlageverfahren,* Berlin, 1888; *System des Handelsrechts,* Stuttgart, 1887, 4th ed., 1891. He died in [Bad Wilhelmshöhe](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bad_Wilhelmsh%C3%B6he&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Wilhelmsh%C3%B6he)], now a neighborhood of [Kassel](/source/Kassel) and was buried in the [Schönhauser Allee Jewish Cemetery](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sch%C3%B6nhauser_Allee_Jewish_Cemetery&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCdischer_Friedhof_Sch%C3%B6nhauser_Allee)] in Berlin. ## Bibliography - Adler, K. (1898). ["Goldschmidt, Levin"](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hx3jum?urlappend=%3Bseq=193). *Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog* (in German). **2**: 119–122. [hdl](/source/Hdl_(identifier)):[2027/hvd.hx3jum](https://hdl.handle.net/2027%2Fhvd.hx3jum?urlappend=%3Bseq=193). - [Laband, Paul](/source/Paul_Laband) (1897). ["Levin Goldschmidt. †"](https://dlc.mpdl.mpg.de/dlc/view/escidoc:88850:2/recto-verso/312). *Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung* (in German). **2**: 296–298. - Pappenheim, Max (1898). ["Levin Goldschmidt"](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.35112102937929?urlappend=%3Bseq=19). *Zeitschrift für Handelsrecht* (in German). **47**: 1–49. [hdl](/source/Hdl_(identifier)):[2027/mdp.35112102937929](https://hdl.handle.net/2027%2Fmdp.35112102937929?urlappend=%3Bseq=19). - Pappenheim, Max (1904). ["Goldschmidt, Levin"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/de:ADB:Goldschmidt,_Levin). *[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie](/source/Allgemeine_Deutsche_Biographie)* (in German). Vol. 49. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 438–448. - Riesser, Jacob (1897). [*L. Goldschmidt. Gedächtnisrede, gehalten in der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 13. November 1897*](https://books.google.com/books?id=EovkwwEACAAJ) (in German). Berlin: Otto Liebmann. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Laband, Paul](/source/Paul_Laband) (1897). ["Levin Goldschmidt. †"](https://dlc.mpdl.mpg.de/dlc/view/escidoc:88850:2/recto-verso/312). *Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung* (in German). **2**: 296–298. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Dilcher, Gerhard (2008). "From the History of Law to Sociology: Max Weber's Engagement with the Historical School of Law". *Max Weber Studies*. **8** (2): 163–186. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1353/max.2008.a808859](https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fmax.2008.a808859). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [1470-8078](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1470-8078). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [24579595](https://www.jstor.org/stable/24579595). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [148420646](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:148420646). [Project MUSE](/source/Project_Muse) [808859](https://muse.jhu.edu/article/808859). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Kaelber, Lutz. ["Max Weber's Dissertation"](http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/research/weber1.html). *Lutz Kaelber*. 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