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See also:LIEBER, See also:FRANCIS (1800–1872) , See also:German-See also:American publicist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 18th of See also:March x800. He served with his two See also:brothers under See also:Blucher in the See also:campaign of 1815, fighting at Ligny, See also:Waterloo and See also:Namur, where he was twice dangerously wounded. Shortly afterwards he was arrested for his See also:political sentiments, the See also:chief See also:evidence against him being several songs of See also:liberty which he had written. After several months he was discharged without a trial, but was forbidden to pursue his studies at the Prussian See also:universities. He accordingly went to See also:Jena, where he took his degrees in 182o, continuing his studies at See also:Halle and See also:Dresden. He subsequently took See also:part in the See also:Greek See also:War of See also:Independence, See also:publishing his experiences in his See also:Journal in See also:Greece (See also:Leipzig, 1823, and under the See also:title The German See also:Anacharsis, See also:Amsterdam, 1823). For a See also:year he was in See also:Rome as See also:tutor to the son of the historian See also:Niebuhr, then Prussian See also:ambassador. Returning to Berlin in 1823, he was imprisoned at Koepenik, but was released after some months through the See also:influence of Niebuhr. In 1827 he went to the See also:United States and as soon as possible was naturalized as a See also:citizen. He settled at See also:Boston, and for five years edited The See also:Encyclopaedia Americana (13 vols.). From 1835 to 1856 he was See also:professor of See also:history and political See also:economy in See also:South Carolina See also:College at See also:Columbia, S.C., and during this See also:period wrote his three chief See also:works, See also:Manual of Political See also:Ethics (1838), Legal and Political See also:Hermeneutics (1839), and See also:Civil Liberty and Self See also:Government (1853). In 1856 he resigned and next year was elected to a similar See also:post in Columbia College, New See also:York, and in 1865 became professor of constitutional history and public See also:law in the same institution. During the Civil War Lieber rendered servicesof See also:great value to the government. He was one of the first to point out the madness of See also:secession, and was active in upholding the See also:Union. He prepared, upon the requisition of the See also:president, the important See also:Code of War for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field, which was promulgated by the Government in See also:General Orders No. too of the war See also:department. This code suggested to See also:Bluntschli his codification of the law of nations, as may be seen in the See also:preface to his See also:Droit See also:International Codifie. During this period also Lieber wrote his Guerilla Parties with Reference to the See also:Laws and Usages of War. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his See also:death he was the See also:umpire of the See also:commission for the See also:adjudication of Mexican claims. He died on the and of See also:October 1872. His books were acquired by the University of See also:California, and his papers were placed in the Johns See also:Hopkins University.
His See also:Miscellaneous Writings were published by D. C. See also:Gilman (See also:Philadelphia, 1881). See T. S. See also:Perry, See also:Life and Letters (1882), and See also:biography by Harby (1899).
End of Article: LIEBER, FRANCIS (1800–1872)
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