26.2.1935

Born in Berlin

1953

Baccalaureate/School-leaving exam in Berlin, after having attended schools in Berlin and Eisenberg \ Thuringia

1953 - 1958

University studies in the faculties of Law, History and Philosophy at the Universities of Berlin (FU) (1953-54), Freiburg i. Br. (1954-55) and Bonn (1955-58)

1956

Admission to the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (Educational Foundation of the German People)

1958

First State Examination in Law in Cologne

1960 - 1968

Assistant at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Bonn

1964

Doctorate in Law (title of Dr. jur.) at the chair of legal historian Professor Hermann Conrad ("Der kanonische Infamiebegriff") (transl. The Canonical Term Infamy)

1965 - 1966

Post-Doctoral at Yale University (New Haven, Conn., USA), mainly with Professor Stephan Kuttner

1965

Lecturer at Yale University in Medieval Canon Law

1968

Postdoctoral lecturing qualification at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Bonn at the chair of legal historian Professor Hermann Conrad with the thesis "Ius Patronatus"

1968 - 1987

Full Professor at the University of Regensburg, Faculty of Law

1970 - 1971

Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Regensburg

1979 - 1981

Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Regensburg

1977

Research residency at the University of California, Berkeley, Cal.

1983

Refused offer of a chair in Legal History at the University of Frankfurt/M. (successor to Coing)

1984

Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago

since 1985

Member of the Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences)

1986

Offered chairs at the Universities of Berkeley and Munich

since 1986

Member of the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica

since 1987

Full Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Faculty of Law

1988 - 2000

President of the Society for Medieval Canon Law, Zurich

1990 - 1991

Research residency as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton/ N.Y.

1990 - 1998

Secretary of the philosophical/historical division of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences)

since 1991

President of the Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law, Munich

1991 - 1993

Visiting professor at the University of Leipzig

1993

Refused offer of a chair at the University of Leipzig, Faculty of Law

1993 - 1995

Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Munich

since 1994

Member of the Specialist Advisory Council of the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt/M.

1997

Awarded the title of Dr. iur. can. h.c. by the Canonical Institute of the University of Munich

1998

Awarded the title of Dr. iur. h.c. by the University of Basle

2000

Festschrift "Grundlagen des Rechts" (transl. 'The Basis of Law') on the occasion of his 65th birthday, edited by Richard Helmholz, Paul Mikat, Jörg Müller, Michael Stolleis

2001

Corresponding member of the Medieval Academy of America  Awarded the Title Dr. iur. h.c. by the University of Panthèon-Assas, Paris II

Corresponding member of the Accademia Senese Degli Intronati, Sienna

Co-publisher of: "Forschung zur kirchlichen Rechtsgeschichte und zum Kirchenrecht" (transl. Research on Ecclesiastical Legal History and Canon Law), "Die Abhandlungen zur rechtswissenschaftlichen Grundlagenforschung" (transl. Treatises on the Research of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence), the series "Norm und Struktur" (transl. Norm and Structure) and the "Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, NS"

died May 23rd 2019