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MARTENS, GEORG FRIEDRICH VON (1756-1821)

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MARTENS, GEORG See also:FRIEDRICH VON (1756-1821) , See also:German jurist and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg on the 22nd of See also:February 17 56. Educated at the See also:universities of See also:Gottingen, See also:Regensburg and See also:Vienna, he became See also:professor of See also:jurisprudence at Gottingen in 1783 and was ennobled in 1789. He was made a counsellor of See also:state by the elector of See also:Hanover in 18o8, and in 1810 was See also:president of the See also:financial See also:section of the See also:council of state of the See also:kingdom of See also:Westphalia. In 1814 he was appointed privy See also:cabinet-councillor (Geheimer Kabinetsrat) by the See also:king of Hanover, and in 1816 went as representative of the king to the See also:diet of the new German See also:Confederation at See also:Frankfort, where he died on the 21st of February 1821. Of his See also:works the most important is the See also:great collection of See also:treaties Recueil See also:des traites, &c.) from 1761 onwards. Of this the first seven volumes were published at Gottingen (1791-1801), followed by four supplementary volumes partly edited by his See also:nephew Karl von Martens (see below). These were followed by Nouveau recueil, of treaties subsequent to 18o8, in 16 vols. (Gottingen, 1817-1842), of which G. F. von Martens edited the first four, the fifth being the See also:work of K. von Martens, the others (6-9) by F. See also:Saalfeld and (t(3-16) F. Murhard. A Nouveau supplement, in 3 vols., filling gaps in the previous collection, was also published by Murhard (Gottingen, 1839-1842).

This was followed by Nouveau recueil . . . continuation du See also:

grand recueil de Martens, in 20 vols. (Gottingen, 1843-1875), edited in turn by F. Murhard, C. Murhard, J. Pinhas, C. Samwer and J. Hopf, with a See also:general See also:index of treaties from 1494 to 1874 (1876). This was followed by Nouveau recueil, 2me serie (Gottingen, 1876-1896; vols. xxii.-See also:xxxv., See also:Leipzig, 1897-1908). From vol. xi. on this See also:series was edited by See also:Felix See also:Stork, professor of public See also:law at Greifswald. In 1909 appeared vol. i. of a further Continuation (troisieme serie) under the editorship of Professor Heinrich Triepel of See also:Kiel University. Of Martens' other works the most important are the Precis du See also:droit des gens modernes de l'See also:Europe (1789; 3rd ed., Gottingen, 1821; new ed., G.

S. Pinheiro-See also:

Ferreira, 2 vols., 1858, 1864) ; Erzahlungen merkwurdiger See also:Falk des neueren europaischen Volkerrechts, 2 vols. (Gottingen, 1800-1802); Cours diplomatique ou tableau des 'relations des puissances de l'Europe, 3 vols. (See also:Berlin, 1801); Grundriss einer diplomatischen Gesch. der europ. Staatshandel u. Friedensschlusse seit dem Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts (ibid. 1807). His nephew KARL VON MARTENS (1790-1863), who at his See also:death was See also:minister See also:resident of the grand-See also:duke of See also:Weimar at See also:Dresden, published a See also:Manuel diplomatique (Leipzig, 1823), re-issued as See also:Guide diplomatique in two vols. in 1832 (5th ed. by See also:Geffcken, 1866), a valuable textbook of the rules and customs of the See also:diplomatic service; Causes celebres du droit des gees (2 vols., ibid., 1827) and Nouvelles causes celebres (2 vols., ibid., 1843), both republished, in 5 vols. (1858-1861) ; Recueil manuel et pratique de traites (' vols., ibid., 1846-1857) ; continued by Geffcken in 3 vols., 1885-1888).

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