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 (1962–1966) at the University of Münster, the Ludwig Maximilian University of 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 the Ludwig Maximilian University of 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 the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1970, he received his Dr. phil. degree in the Philology of the Christian Orient from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a dissertation on the Law Book of the Nestorian Catholicos Yoḥannan bar Abgare (which he would publish in 1971 as Syrische Texte zum islamischen Recht. Das dem nestorianischen Katholikos Johannes V. bar Aḇgārē zugeschriebene Rechtsbuch (= Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse, NF, Volume 74).[1]

Career

From 1970 to 1973 he was scholarly assistant at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. After completing the Dr. iuris degree in 1973 (with a dissertation on the legal collection of Gabriel, the 9th-century Nestorian metropolitan of Baṣra),[2] and passing his second state examination as a lawyer in that year also,[3] 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.[4]

Since 1979, Kaufhold has been an editor of the journal Oriens Christianus. Since 1996, he has been a member of the editorial board of the electronic magazine Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. Since 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 (2007–2010) at the Klaus Mörsdorf Study Program in Canon Law (Das Klaus-Mörsdorf-Studium für Kanonistik) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of 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 Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.[5]

Since 1992 he has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (philosophical-historical class).[6] The Bavarian Academy of Sciences awarded him the Academy Award in 2011.[7] The Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I. Iwas awarded him the St. Ephräm Order in 2013.[8] The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising awarded him the Audomar Scheuermann Study Prize in 2015.[9] Since 2017 he has been a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan.[10]

Kaufhold is the author or editor of 11 books, 75 scholarly articles, and over 170 book reviews.[11]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ See the entry on the 9th/10th century Yoḥannan bar Abgare by Kaufhold in the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition at: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gabriel-of-Basra.
  2. ^ See the entry on the 9th century Gabriel by Kaufhold in the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition at: https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Gabriel-of-Basra.
  3. ^ See his Curriculum Vitae, at: http://www.hubert-kaufhold.de/
  4. ^ See his Curriculum Vitae, at: http://www.hubert-kaufhold.de/
  5. ^ See Kaufhold’s Curriculum Vitae at the Leopold Wenger Institute: https://www.jura.uni-muenchen.de/personen/k/kaufhold_hubert/lebenslauf/index.html
  6. ^ See his page at the website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/m/kaufhold-hubert/
  7. ^ See the description of his award at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences website at: http://www.badw-muenchen.bayern/fileadmin/akademie/preise/akademiepreis/2011_laudatio_kaufhold.pdf
  8. ^ See his Curriculum Vitae, at: http://www.hubert-kaufhold.de/
  9. ^ See Kaufhold’s Curriculum Vitae at the Leopold Wenger Institute: https://www.jura.uni-muenchen.de/personen/k/kaufhold_hubert/lebenslauf/index.html
  10. ^ See the announcement at the Goerres Society Website at: https://www.goerres-gesellschaft-rom.de/news-termine/aus-aller-welt/275-hubert-kaufhold-mitglied-der-accademia-ambrosiana.html
  11. ^ See the list of publications at: http://www.hubert-kaufhold.de/pub.html
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