Oliver Lepsius Oliver Lepsius Oliver Lepsius (born 2 February 1964) is a German professor of jurisprudence at the University of Bayreuth. His public profile was raised in 2011 by the scandal involving Germany's Defence Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. It was determined that the youthful minister's doctoral dissertation, awarded in 2007, had been over-dependent on plagiarism. The university revoked the doctorate and the minister resigned. In public interviews Oliver Lepsius, the university's professor of jurisprudence expressed his anger very powerfully over the affair. Oliver Nicolai Lepsius was born in Munich. By the time he completed his school leaving exams ("Abitur") he was attending
Doctorate Before 1984 three research doctorates existed in France: the State doctorate ("doctorat d'État", "DrE", the old doctorate introduced in 1808), the third cycle doctorate ("Doctorat de troisième cycle", also called doctorate of specialty, "Doctorat de spécialité", created in 1954 and shorter than the State doctorate) and the diploma of doctor-engineer ("diplôme de docteur-ingénieur" created in 1923), for technical research. During the first half of the 20th century, following the submission of two theses (primary thesis, "thèse principale", and secondary thesis, "thèse complémentaire") to the Faculty of Letters (in France, "letters" is equivalent to "humanities") at the University of Paris, the