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HOLTZENDORFF, JOACHIM WILHELM FRANZ PHILIPP VON (1829—1889)

HOLTZENDORFF, See also:
JOACHIM, JOSEPH (1831—1907)
JOACHIM WILHELM See also:
FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)
FRANZ PHILIPP VON (1829—1889) , See also:

German jurist, See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Vietmannsdorf, in the See also:

Mark of See also:

BRANDENBURG

Brandenburg, on the 14th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1829, was descended from a See also:

FAMILY

family of the old See also:

NOBILITY

nobility. He was educated at See also:

Berlin and at See also:

PFORTA, or SCHULPFORTA

Pforta, afterwards studying See also:

law at the See also:

UNIVERSITIES

universities of See also:

BONN

Bonn, See also:

HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg and Berlin. The struggles of 1848 inspired him with youthful See also:

ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm, and he remained for the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

LIFE

life a strong See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate of See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

LIBERTY (Lat. libertas, from liber, free)

liberty. In 1852 he graduated LL.D. at Berlin; in 1857 he became a Privatdocent, and in 186o he was nominated a See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor extra-See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary. The predominant party in See also:

Prussia regarded his political opinions with mistrust, and he was not offered an ordinary professorship until See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1873, after he had decided to accept a See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair at the university of See also:

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich. At Munich he passed the last nineteen years of his life. During the See also:

THIRTY

thirty years that he was professor he successively taught several branches of See also:

jurisprudence, but he was chiefly distinguished as an authority on criminal and See also:

INTERNATIONAL, THE

international law. He was especially well fitted for organizing collective See also:

WORK

work, and he has associated his name with a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of publications of the first value. While acting as editor he often reserved for himself, among the See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent monographs of which the work was composed, only those on subjects distasteful to his collaborators on See also:

account of their obscurity or lack of importance. Among the compilations which he superintended may be mentioned his Encyclopadie der Rechtswissenschaft (See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 187o-1871, 2 vols.; his Handbuch See also:

des deutschen Strafrechts (Berlin, 1871—1877, 4 vols.), and his Handbuch des Volkerrechts auf Grundlage europoischer Staatspraxis (Berlin, 1885—189o, 4 vols.). Amonghis many independent See also:

WORKS

works may be mentioned: Das irische Gefangnissystem (Leipzig, 18J9), Franzosische Rechtszustande (Leipzig, 1859), See also:

Die See also:

DEPORTATION

Deportation als Strafmitiel (Leipzig, 1859), Die Kiirzungsfdhigkeit der Freiheitsstrafen (Leipzig, 1861), Die Reform der Staatsanwaltschaft in Deutschland (Berlin, 1864), Die Umgestaltung der Staatsanwaltschaft (Berlin, 1865), Die Principien der Politik (Berlin, 1869), Das Verbrechen des Mordes and die Todesstrafe (Berlin, 1875), Rumaniens Uferrechte an der Donau (Leipzig, 1883; See also:

French edition, 1884). He also edited or assisted in editing a number of periodical publications on legal subjects.

From 1866 to the See also:

time of his See also:

DEATH

death he was associated with See also:

RUDOLF (otherwise known as Basso NOROK and Gannon)

Rudolf See also:

Ludwig Carl See also:

VIRCHOW, RUDOLF (1821-1902)

Virchow in editing Sammlung gemeinverstandlicher wissenschaftlicher Vortrage (Berlin). Von Holtzendorff died at Munich on the 4th of February 1889.

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