1. Otto Lenel was a German Jewish jurist and legal historian.
11 Facts About Otto Lenel
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Otto Lenel was born in Mannheim, Germany on 13 December 1849.
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Otto Lenel was the son of Moritz Lenel and Caroline Scheuer.
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In 1882, Otto Lenel became famous, when he won a prize which had been offered by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences with his reconstruction of the edict of the praetors.
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Otto Lenel soon became one of the most important German legal historians of his time.
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On his 80th birthday, Otto Lenel received a gratulatory letter, which was signed by academics representing 20 countries of various continents and 100 universities.
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Otto Lenel was made an honorary citizen of the city of Freiburg.
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Otto Lenel's daughter was forced out of her job as a nurse.
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Otto Lenel is best known for his reconstruction of the fundamental text of the Roman legal system, the so-called edictum perpetuum of the Roman praetors.
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Otto Lenel reconstructed both the text of the edict and tried to establish the order in which the surviving fragments of legal writings had originally been presented before they were cut out and rearranged in the digest.
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Otto Lenel's work is extremely important for the history of Roman law.