Ernst Zitelmann

Ernst Zitelmann [tsi:tlman] (7 August 1852, Stettin – 28 November 1923, Bonn) was a German jurist who specialized in the dogmatics of civil law.

[1] He studied law at the universities of Leipzig, Heidelberg and Bonn.

Later on, he received great public attention by publishing an article on "Die juristische Willenserklärung" ("the juridical declaration of intent", 1878) and a monograph named "Irrtum und Rechtsgeschäft" ("error and act of legal significance", 1879).

[2] He was also the author of a book of prose poetry titled Radierungen und Momentaufnahmen (1903).

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Zitelmann with wife and daughters in front of the "villa on the Rhine". (c. 1893)