Curriculum vitae

Heinrich Honsell was born in Munich on July 28th , 1942. He is German and Austrian citizen.
He is Professor emeritus for Swiss and European Private Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich, Honorary Professor for Trade- and Company Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Salzburg.

His practice and academic work focuses on Private Law, Company Law, Insurance Law, International Arbitration, Comparative Law, Roman Legal History and Legal Methodology.
Heinrich Honsell received his legal education in Germany, and qualified as a professor at the University of Munich in 1972. From 1972 to 1977 Honsell was Professor at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), from 1977 to 1989 at the University of Salzburg and from 1989 to 2007 at the Law Faculty of the University of Zürich. Many other Universities offered him a chair so as Wien, Munich, Salzburg, Bern, Tübingen, Erlangen, Würzburg.

He was chairman of the German Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung, the main association of German speaking law professors and is a correspondent member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

He has published about twenty books and more than hundred articles on German, Austrian, Swiss and European Law, Roman Legal History, Comparative Law and Legal Methodes.