Reinhold Zippelius
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Reinhold Zippelius (born 19 May 1928) is a German jurist and law scholar. Now retired, he was formerly the professor of the Philosophy of law and Public law at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.[1][2]
Reinhold Walter Zippelius was born in Ansbach (west of Nuremberg), the son of Hans Zippelius and Marie (Stoessel) Zippelius.[citation needed] He embarked on his study of jurisprudence in 1947 at the University of Würzburg and then at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. In 1949, he switched to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München where between 1949 and 1961 he was supported by a scholarship-bursary. He received his doctorate in 1953. His habilitation (higher academic qualification), also from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and supervised by Karl Engisch, would follow in 1961.[2]
After passing his public law exams (1956 and 1963) Zippelius worked in government service in Bavaria, in the end promoted to the level of Oberregierungsrat (senior government legal advisor) at the Interior Ministry.[citation needed] His habilitation in 1961 opened the way for an academic career, and in 1963, he accepted a teaching chair at Erlangen that covered a range of law related disciplines including Philosophy of law, Public law, Administrative/Civil Law and Church law.[2] Despite attempts by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and other university level institutions outside Bavaria to lure him away, he remained at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg for more than fifty years. Reinhold Zippelius retired from his professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1995.[2]
Zippelius is a full member of the Mainz-based Academy of Sciences and Literature ("Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur").[3] In 2002 The Faculty of Scientific Theory and History at Athens University awarded him an honorary doctorate ("doctor honoris causa").[2]
