Jaromír Tauchen


Jaromír Tauchen is a Czech lawyer, law-historian, certified judiciary interpreter and translator and lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno. His researches are mainly aimed at German legal history, especially the era of the Third Reich in Germany, in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and history of Germans in the Czech lands.

Life and academic career

Jaromír Tauchen was born on 23 July 1981 in Sušice. He has worked at the Department of History of State and Law, Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno. Having taken part in a number of international school tours and international research projects, Tauchen has studied at a couple of German and Austrian Universities, e.g. Innsbruck, Dresden, Frankfurt and Vienna. He has published his articles especially in the Journal on European History of Law. Further, he has been a co-author of a couple of monographs published in Germany. Mr. Jaromir Tauchen is certified judiciary interpreter and translator and a member of the Deutsch-Tschechische Juristenvereinigung e.V., and The European Society for History of Law.
He is a member of the Editorial board of the Journal on European History of Law and member of the international Scientific board of the Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs. He is an editor of the Encyclopedia of Czech Legal History and a member of its scientific board.

Partial bibliography

  • Schelle, Karel – Tauchen, Jaromír. Encyklopedie českých právních dějin, I. svazek A – Č. Plzeň, Aleš Čeněk, 2015, 972 pp.,
  • Adamová, Karolina – Schelle, Karel – Lojek, Antonín - Tauchen, Jaromír. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české. Tematická řada. Stát. Praha, Paseka, 2015. 652 pp.,
  • Schelle, Karel – Tauchen, Jaromír. Vývoj konstitucionalismu v českých zemích . Praha, Linde a.s., 2013, 2800 pp.,
  • Vojáček, Ladislav – Schelle, Karel – Tauchen, Jaromír a kol. Vývoj soukromého práva na území českých zemí. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 616 pp. and 411 pp.
  • Vojáček, Ladislav – Schelle, Karel – Tauchen, Jaromír. Nástin právních dějin. Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 322 pp.,
  • Vojáček, Ladislav – Schelle, Karel – Tauchen, Jaromír. An Introduction to History of Czech Private Law. Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 182 pp.,
  • Schelle, Karel – Tauchen, Jaromír. Protektorát Čechy a Morava – jedna z nejtragičtějších kapitol českých novodobých dějin . Brno, The European Society for History of Law, 2010, 186 pp.,
  • Schelle, Karel – Tauchen, Jaromír. Grundriss der Tschechoslowakischen Rechtsgeschichte. München, Verlag Dr. Hut, 2009, 196 pp.,
  • Schelle, Karel – Tauchen, Jaromír. Recht und Verwaltung im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. München, Verlag Dr. Hut, 2009, 124 pp.,
  • Vojáček, Ladislav – Schelle, Karel – Tauchen, Jaromír – Veselá, Renata. Geschichte von Integrationskonzeptionen in Europa bis 1945.'' München, Verlag Dr. Hut, 2009. 115 pp.,