Jean Acher
Jean Acher (13 July 1880 – 1 March 1915) was a Polish-born French specialists in Medieval Roman law.
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Biography
Jean Acher was born in Lodz, Poland to a Jewish family.[1] He studied first at Saint Petersburg, then in Berlin, where he attended Bernhard Kübler's classes, and continued his studies at Montpellier, where he was awarded a law degree. He obtained a licence in law in 1904.
At the same time, Acher also studied Romanic languages and literature. Legal and Romanic studies were the subjects of the many articles and reviews he then started publishing in several journals at the time.
In 1906, he settled in Paris. Acher became involved in the controversial issues around the methods of legal teaching, appearing as a harsh critic of the then prevailing approach to Roman law teaching. A great admirer of Heinrich Hermann Fitting, he criticised specifically the exclusive focus on classical Roman law. In turn, Acher was the target of criticism by Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz and Charles Appleton, which led to a confrontation with legal scholars. Joseph Bédier, professor at the Collège de France, supported him and, as a result, Acher devoted his work almost exclusively to the study of Romanic philology and literature.
He obtained French citizenship in September 1914 and died the following year on the battle field in Vienne-le-Château.
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- Lefebvre-Teillard, Anne (2013). "Portrait d'un 'Romaniste' Hors du Commun: Jean Acher (1880–1915)," Revue d'Histoire du Droit, Vol. LXXXI (3/4): 449–64.
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- ↑ Ridoux, Charles (2001). Évolution des Études Médiévales en France de 1860 à 1914. Paris: Champion, p. 1137.
