About Hubert Kaufhold
Born 1943. Hubert Kaufhold is a prosecutor, orientalist, jurist and judge.
Hubert Kaufhold (born March 19, 1943, in Braunschweig, Germany) is a German legal scholar and judge, with special research interests in the languages and legal history of the Christian Orient.
Education Kaufhold studied law (1962â1966) at the University of MĂŒnster, LMU Munich, and the University of Göttingen from 1962 to 1966. After passing his first state examination as a lawyer, he continued his study of the Philology of the Christian Orient, Semitic Studies, and Judaism at the University of Göttingen and LMU Munich from 1966 to 1969. From 1969 to 1970, he was a research assistant at the Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research at LMU Munich. In 1970, he received his Dr. phil. degree in the Philology of the Christian Orient from LMU Munich with a dissertation on the Law Book of the Nestorian Catholicos Yoáž„annan bar Abgare which he went on to publish in 1971 as Syrische Texte zum islamischen Recht. Das dem nestorianischen Katholikos Johannes V. bar AážgÄrÄ zugeschriebene Rechtsbuch (= Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse, NF, Volume 74).
Career From 1970 to 1973, he was scholarly assistant at LMU Munich. After completing the Dr. iuris degree in 1973 (with a dissertation on the legal collection of Gabriel, the 9th-century Nestorian metropolitan of BaáčŁra), and passing his second state examination as a lawyer in that year also, Kaufhold served as a public prosecutor and judge in Munich from 1973 to 2008. Since 1977, he has regularly taught Syriac and the legal history of the Christian Orient at the Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research, where he held the title of Honorary Professor since 1986.
Since 1979, Kaufhold has been an editor of the journal Oriens Christianus and since 1996, he has been a member of the editorial board of the electronic magazine Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. Starting 1999, he has been a member of the board of directors of the Görres Society in Jerusalem. From 1997 to 2015, he was a member of the Commission for the Editing of the Corpus of Greek Documents of the Middle Ages and Modern Times (since 2010: the Commission for Greek and Byzantine Studies) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He undertook additional study in canon law (2007â2010) at the Klaus Mörsdorf Study Program in Canon Law (Das Klaus-Mörsdorf-Studium fĂŒr Kanonistik) at LMU Munich and was awarded a licentiate of canon law (Lic. Iur. Can.) in 2013. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Christian Orient Research Center at the Catholic University of EichstĂ€tt-Ingolstadt.
Since 1992 he has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (philosophical-historical class). The Bavarian Academy of Sciences awarded him the Academy Award in 2011. The Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I. Iwas awarded him the St. EphrÀm Order in 2013. The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising awarded him the Audomar Scheuermann Study Prize in 2015. Since 2017 he has been a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan.
Kaufhold is the author or editor of 11 books, 75 scholarly articles, and over 170 book reviews.
Selected publications Hubert Kaufhold, Syrische Texte zum islamischen Recht. Das dem nestorianischen Katholikos Johannes V. bar AážgÄrÄ zugeschriebene Rechtsbuch (= Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse, NF, Volume 74). Munich: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1971. Hubert Kaufhold, Die Rechtssammlung des Gabriel von BaáčŁra und ihr VerhĂ€ltnis zu den anderen juristischen Sammelwerken der Nestorianer (= MĂŒnchener UniversitĂ€tsschriften â Juristische FakultĂ€t, Abhandlungen zur rechtswissen-schaftlichen Grundlagenforschung. Band 21). Berlin: Schweitzer, 1976. Hubert Kaufhold, Syrische Handschriften juristischen Inhalts in sĂŒdindischen Bibliotheken (= Veröffentlichungen der Kommission fĂŒr Antike Rechtsgeschichte. Nummer 5) (= Ăsterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte 535) . Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1989. Hubert Kaufhold, with Ludwig Burgmann, eds., Bibliographie zur Rezeption des byzantinischen Rechts im alten RuĂland sowie zur Geschichte des armenischen und georgischen Rechts (= Forschungen zur byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte. Volume 18). Frankfurt am Main: Löwenklau-Gesellschaft, 1992. Hubert Kaufhold, ed., Die armenischen Ăbersetzungen byzantinischer RechtsbĂŒcher. Erster Teil: Allgemeines. Zweiter Teil: Die âKurze Sammlungâ (= Forschungen zur byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte. Volume 21). Frankfurt am Main: Löwenklau-Gesellschaft, 1997. Hubert Kaufhold, with Walter Selb, eds., Das Syrisch-römische Rechtsbuch (= Veröffentlichungen der Kommission fĂŒr Antike Rechtsgeschichte. Number 9) (=Ăsterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Denkschrift 295). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2002. Hubert Kaufhold, Christlicher Orient und schwĂ€bische Heimat. Leben und Werk von PrĂ€lat Professor Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Georg Graf (15. MĂ€rz 1875 â 18. September 1955). Katalog der Ausstellung im Rathaus Dillingen a. d. Donau anlĂ€Ălich der Gedenkveranstaltungen zum fĂŒnfzigsten Todestag Georg Grafs am 17. und 18. September in Dillingen. WĂŒrzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2005. Hubert Kaufhold, ed., Georg Graf: Christlicher Orient und schwĂ€bische Heimat. Kleine Schriften. AnlĂ€Ălich des 50. Todestages des Verfassers (= Beiruter Texte und Studien. Volume 107). WĂŒrzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2005. Hubert Kaufhold, ed., Kleines Lexikon des christlichen Orients. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007. Hubert Kaufhold, Zur Datierung nach christlicher Ăra in den syrischen Kirchen (=Analecta Gorgiana. Volume 125). Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2009. Hubert Kaufhold, Franciscus Peña und der InquisitionsprozeĂ nach seiner âIntroductio seu Praxis Inquisitorumâ (= MĂŒnchener Theologische Studien. III. Kanonistische Abteilung. Vol. 67). St. Ottilien: EOS, 2014. Hubert Kaufhold, Ebedjesus von Nisibis âOrdo iudiciorum ecclesiasticorumâ. Eine Zusammenstellung der kirchlichen Rechtsbestimmungen der ostsyrischen Kirche im 14. Jahrhundert (=EichstĂ€tter BeitrĂ€ge zum Christlichen Orient, Volume 7). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019.
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