Honorary doctor and professor of the Faculty of Law since 14 March 2012.
Werner Ogris was born in Vienna, 9 July 1935. He studied law at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1958. After that he was employed as a scientific assistant at the European Legal History Institute of the University of Vienna. In February 1962 he became habilitated doctor of German legal history and Austrian constitution and administration history.
From 1962-1966 he was a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1966 he was called back to the University of Vienna, where he was teaching uninterruptedly for 74 semesters until he received the professor emeritus title in 2003. He was the dean of the Faculty of Law in the academic year 1972/73.
From 1968-1992 he was co-editor of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. In 1992 he was guest professor at the University of Kansas. In the academic year 2005/06 he was dean and professor at a private college Bratislavska vysoka Škola prava.
Acknowledgements: in 1961 he received the Theodor Körner Prize. In 1972 he became a correspondent member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, from 1975 he ha been a full member. From 1975 he was the chairman of the Committee of the Savigny Foundation. From 1995 he has been the chairman of the Austrian Legal History Committee that was formed from the Committee of the Savigny Foundation. In 1985 he was elected to become an associate member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in 1988 he was elected to become an associate member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands. In 1993 he received the honorary doctor title of the Charles University in Prag and of the Comenius University of Bratislava. In 2010 he received the First Class of the Austrian Order of Merit for Sciences and Arts.
Professor Ogris maintains a close relationship with the legal historians in Pécs. He is the engine of the lecturer-exchange and guest lectures at the law faculties of the University of Vienna and the University of Pécs. In 2007 a book was published about his work with the title "Portraits of European Legal Historians I. Werner Ogris". In the last decades he has held very popular lectures for students of legal history in Pécs. His recommendations, pieces of advice have always been welcome among students and lecturers of the Faculty of Law, University of Pécs. The honorary doctor title of Werner Ogris boosts the prestige of the University of Pécs.
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