Founding father Fritz Berolzheimer (1869–1920): From Arthur Kohler's essay "Von der Wiege des Archivs" (From the cradle of the Archive) from 1930/31 we know that the idea for founding a journal for the philosophy of law on a neo-idealistic basis came from Fritz Berolzheimer, a lawyer and private scholar from Munich. This idea coincided with Kohler's distinctive interest in founding new academic enterprises. Both men knew each other from academic correspondence, which derived from the publishing of Berolzheimer's five-volume "System der Rechts- und Wirtschaftsphilosophie" ("A system of Philosophy of Law and Economic Philosophy", 1904–1907/08). This opus dealt not only with Hegel, but also with Josef Kohler's philosophy intensively. In 1906, Berolzheimer even wrote an article on "J. Kohler as an philosopher of law" ("J. Kohler als Rechtsphilosoph"). Rothschild Publishing House: The "Archive" originally was published by the Dr. Walther Rothschild Verlagsbuchhandlung (Dr. Walther Rothschild Publishing House). Established in 1905, Rothschild Publishing House soon became a well respected publisher for cultural studies, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. The fundamental idea of Rothschild Publishing House is well described by the following words celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1930: "The work of the scholar prospers in solitude. Trusting his own strain of thoughts alone and without any help, the scholar seeks to deduce the laws of the world, to find formulations that are valid. (…) For the scientific person, the penetration of the absolute means happiness and fulfillment. The general public is indifferent to this internal process, at first. The sphere of privacy will be crossed only when the publisher gives these thoughts a broader footing; when he makes a book out of a manuscript. In this way, ideas go out to the world. Printed work imparts results and further tasks to the scientific world. It creates intellectual currents which connect times and countries."Otto Bettmann, Staat und Menschheit. Ideengeschichte des Verlags Dr. Walter Rothschild, 1930. Historian Walter Rothschild (1879-1967; Doctor of philosophy 1902) was owner and leading figure of the Dr. Walther Rothschild Verlagsbuchhandlung (Dr. Walther Rothschild Publishing House). He was not related to the famous Jewish family of the same name. However, Rothschild was forced to withdraw from the publishing business in 1933. He then emigrated to the US, where he died in Carmel, California, in 1967. In 1933, Rothschild Publishing House ceased publishing the "Archive". In the same year the publishing house "vanished" from the index of Berlin booksellers; the reason for this has not been clarified until now. The "Archive" was taken over by the "Verlag für Staatswissenschaften und Geschichte" ( 1933-38 ; "Publishing house for Political Sciences and History"), followed by the "Albert Limbach Verlag" (1938–44). IVR ‘ s Founding Organization 1909 Founding father Arthur Kohler - A Legal Graphomaniac 2.482 publications derive from Kohler ‘ s hand. The bibliography from 1931/12, which was compiled by his son Arthur Kohler in 10 years of work, enlists publications concerning truly to all branches of law such as Patent Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Comparative Law. Moreover, Kohler was artistically active, composing music and poetry. It has been calculated, that Kohler in average published one paper a week;Andreas Gängel & Michael Schaumburg, Josef Kohler – Rechtsgelehrter und Rechtslehrer an der Berliner Alma mater um die Jahrhundertwende, in: ARSP Vol. 75 (1989), p. 289–312, p. 304. and his son reports of 20 hour shiftsArthur Kohler, Zur Ehrung Josef Kohlers. II. Erinnerungen an Josef Kohler, in: ARWP Vol. 26 (1932/33), p. 212–217, p. 216. For his contemporary colleagues, this overwhelming creative power was either criticized because of its skechyness or admired as product of the last „universal scholar“, sometimes this creativity was even perceived as „eerie“ (v. Jhering, as cited in: Rainer Maria Kiesow, Josef Kohlers Poesie, in: Rainer Maria Kiesow et al. (eds.), Summa – Dieter Simon zum 70. Geburtstag. Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 297–318, p. 308. Surely „the greatest legal graphomaniac of all times and worlds“ Rainer Maria Kiesow, Josef Kohlers Poesie, in: Rainer Maria Kiesow et al. (eds.), Summa – Dieter Simon zum 70. Geburtstag. Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 297–318, p. 310.
Founding father Fritz Berolzheimer (1869–1920): From Arthur Kohler's essay "Von der Wiege des Archivs" (From the cradle of the Archive) from 1930/31 we know that the idea for founding a journal for the philosophy of law on a neo-idealistic basis came from Fritz Berolzheimer, a lawyer and private scholar from Munich. This idea coincided with Kohler's distinctive interest in founding new academic enterprises. Both men knew each other from academic correspondence, which derived from the publishing of Berolzheimer's five-volume "System der Rechts- und Wirtschaftsphilosophie" ("A system of Philosophy of Law and Economic Philosophy", 1904–1907/08). This opus dealt not only with Hegel, but also with Josef Kohler's philosophy intensively. In 1906, Berolzheimer even wrote an article on "J. Kohler as a philosopher of law" ("J. Kohler als Rechtsphilosoph"). Rothschild Publishing House: The "Archive" originally was published by the Dr. Walther Rothschild Verlagsbuchhandlung (Dr. Walther Rothschild Publishing House). Established in 1905, Rothschild Publishing House soon became a well respected publisher for cultural studies, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. The fundamental idea of Rothschild Publishing House is well described by the following words celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1930: "The work of the scholar prospers in solitude. Trusting his own strain of thoughts alone and without any help, the scholar seeks to deduce the laws of the world, to find formulations that are valid. (…) For the scientific person, the penetration of the absolute means happiness and fulfillment. The general public is indifferent to this internal process, at first. The sphere of privacy will be crossed only when the publisher gives these thoughts a broader footing; when he makes a book out of a manuscript. In this way, ideas go out to the world. Printed work imparts results and further tasks to the scientific world. It creates intellectual currents which connect times and countries."Otto Bettmann, Staat und Menschheit. Ideengeschichte des Verlags Dr. Walter Rothschild, 1930. Historian Walter Rothschild (1879-1967; Doctor of philosophy 1902) was owner and leading figure of the Dr. Walther Rothschild Verlagsbuchhandlung (Dr. Walther Rothschild Publishing House). He was not related to the famous Jewish family of the same name. However, Rothschild was forced to withdraw from the publishing business in 1933. He then emigrated to the US, where he died in Carmel, California, in 1967. In 1933, Rothschild Publishing House ceased publishing the "Archive". In the same year the publishing house "vanished" from the index of Berlin booksellers; the reason for this has not been clarified until now. The "Archive" was taken over by the "Verlag für Staatswissenschaften und Geschichte" ( 1933–38 ; "Publishing house for Political Sciences and History"), followed by the "Albert Limbach Verlag" (1938–44). IVR ' s Founding Organization 1909 Founding father Arthur Kohler - A Legal Graphomaniac 2.482 publications derive from Kohler ' s hand. The bibliography from 1931/12, which was compiled by his son Arthur Kohler in 10 years of work, enlists publications concerning truly to all branches of law such as Patent Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Comparative Law. Moreover, Kohler was artistically active, composing music and poetry. It has been calculated, that Kohler in average published one paper a week;Andreas Gängel & Michael Schaumburg, Josef Kohler – Rechtsgelehrter und Rechtslehrer an der Berliner Alma mater um die Jahrhundertwende, in: ARSP Vol. 75 (1989), p. 289–312, p. 304. and his son reports of 20 hour shiftsArthur Kohler, Zur Ehrung Josef Kohlers. II. Erinnerungen an Josef Kohler, in: ARWP Vol. 26 (1932/33), p. 212–217, p. 216. For his contemporary colleagues, this overwhelming creative power was either criticized because of its skechyness or admired as product of the last „universal scholar“, sometimes this creativity was even perceived as „eerie“ (v. Jhering, as cited in: Rainer Maria Kiesow, Josef Kohlers Poesie, in: Rainer Maria Kiesow et al. (eds.), Summa – Dieter Simon zum 70. Geburtstag. Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 297–318, p. 308. Surely „the greatest legal graphomaniac of all times and worlds“ Rainer Maria Kiesow, Josef Kohlers Poesie, in: Rainer Maria Kiesow et al. (eds.), Summa – Dieter Simon zum 70. Geburtstag. Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 297–318, p. 310.
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