Background
His father was a Doctor of Laws, his grandfather a master baker in Weiler.
educationist university professor
His father was a Doctor of Laws, his grandfather a master baker in Weiler.
Brinz studied in Munich and Berlin and then entered the judicial service of his home state of Bavaria.
He taught as a professor at the University of Erlangen, University of Prague, Tübingen University (since 1866), University of Munich (since 1871). He was a researcher of Roman law. In Berlin, Professor Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff had encouraged him in the detailed scientific study of Roman law, something which he intensified during his practical work.
In 1851 the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg made him an außerordentlicher Professor (ie professor without chair).
From 1854 onwards, he worked there as a full professor (ordentlicher Professor) for Roman law. In 1857 he took up a similar position at the Charles University in Prague.
In 1866 he took up a professorship at the University of Tübingen. Here he finished his Textbook of the Pandects (Lehrbuch der Pandekten).
From 1871 onwards, Alois von Brinz taught Roman civil law at the University of Munich was eventually elected Rector of the university.
In 1872 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and due to the Order"s statutes, thus entered the German nobility. Alois Brinz (born in Weiler. Died 1835) was a Doctor of Laws and later clerk of the regional court in Kempten.
Married Katharina Gsell (born 1793 in Weiler.
Died 1862), had 10 children.
In Prague, Brinz also became politically active, becoming a member of the Bohemian parliament in 1861 and later taking a seat in the Austrian Reichsrat. In the Bohemian parliament he was a dedicated parliamentary orator and politician and, together with the other leaders of the German party, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst and Leopold Hasner von Artha, resolutely defended German interests.
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople]
He rejected a mandate to join the parliament of Württemberg, but thereupon the parliament elected him a member of the constitutional court. In 1883 he was elected an ordinary member of the Class for History of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
He was a member of the Studentenverbindungen Corps Suevia München and Corps Frankonia Prag Saarbrücken.