Albert Mosse
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Isaac Albert Mosse (born October 1, 1846, in Grodzisk Wielkopolski, at that time known as Grätz, in the Province of Posen, Prussia; died May 31, 1925, in Berlin) was a Prussian judge.
[edit] Biography
Mosse attended the gymnasiums in Lissa and in Goben. He then studied law at Berlin University and passed his first state examination in 1868, and the second one in 1873.
He became an assistant judge in 1875, and was gradually elevated to the position of a judge at Berlin district court. On the invitation of the Japanese government, he was a cabinet advisor in Japan from 1886 to 1890.
After leaving Japan, he settled in Königsberg to be a state attorney. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg in 1903 and, during the following year, became honorary professor there for Civil procedural law and Commercial law. He resigned his post at the law court in 1907, because he was denied promotion due to his Jewish descent. He returned to Berlin where he took part in public affairs and in the Jewish community.
Mosse's importance lies in the working out of Japan's Meiji Constitution and his continuation of Litthauer's Comments on the German Commercial Code.
His brother was Rudolf Mosse.
[edit] Works
New edition of F. Litthauer's Comments on the Commercial Code 1905-1927.
[edit] Literature
- Ishii Shiro: Fast wie mein eigen Vaterland: Briefe aus Japan 1886-1889 ("Almost like my own Fatherland: Letters from Japan 1886-1889"). Munich: Iudicium-Verlag 1995.
- Kraus, Elisabeth: Die Familie Mosse: deutsch-jüdisches Bürgertum im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert ("The Mosse family. German-Jewish bourgeoisie during the 19th and 20 century"). Munich: Beck 1999.
- Rott, Joachim: Albert Mosse (1846-1925), deutscher Jude und preußischer Richter ("Albert Mosse (1846-1925), German Jew and Prussian Judge"). In: Neue juristische Wochenschrift. Munich: Beck vol. 58 (2005), 9, p. 563
