Professor Wulf Eckart Voß, Ph.D.
About the person
Prof. Dr. Wulf Eckart Voß, born in 1945, was a professor of legal history and civil law. Prof. Dr. Voß studied in Göttingen and earned his doctorate with a dissertation on the relationship between “law and rhetoric in the imperial laws of late antiquity.” During his Doctorate, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Roman and Common Law in Göttingen. After completing his legal clerkship, he served as a judge in Schleswig-Holstein for three years. Following a leave of absence to pursue his habilitation, he was granted the venia legendi in 1988 at the University of Göttingen for his treatise on “The Non-Legal Entity. On the History of the Doctrine of the Association without Legal Capacity," he received the venia legendi in Civil Law, Modern History of Private Law, and Roman Law.
In 1989, he received an offer for a Fiebiger professorship at Osnabrück University and shortly thereafter an offer from the University of Marburg, which he declined in favor of an offer for the newly established professorship in Legal History and Civil Law at Osnabrück. He has been working in Osnabrück ever since.
Prof. Dr. Voß was a member of the board of the Institute of Early Modern Intercultural Studies at Osnabrück University (IKFN).
