About Béni Grosschmid
Lived 1851 – 1938 (aged 86). Béni Grosschmid was a Hungarian jurist.
Béni Grosschmid (6 November 1852 – 7 September 1938), also known as Beno Zsögöd, was a Hungarian jurist. With Gusztáv Szászy-Schwarz, he was the leading Hungarian scholar of civil law at around the turn of the century.
Grosschmid served in the administration, the courts and since 1882 as professor of Austrian and Hungarian civil law at the universities of Budapest and Kolozsvár. He drafted the first codifications of Hungarian family and marriage law. In the domains of property and inheritance law, he argued for a revival of feudalist Hungarian private law, but his works also pioneered a capitalist code of commerce.
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Who was Béni Grosschmid?
Hungarian jurist (1851–1938)
When was Béni Grosschmid born?
Béni Grosschmid was born on 6 November 1851 in Sighetu Marmației.
When did Béni Grosschmid die?
Béni Grosschmid died on 7 September 1938 in Visegrád.
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Béni Grosschmid was a jurist.
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Béni Grosschmid was Hungarian.
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