Augusto Pierantoni

Augusto Pierantoni (born June 24, 1840 in Chieti , † March 12, 1911 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer and politician . Among other things, he worked as a professor at various Italian universities and as a senator . In addition, he was involved in founding the Institut de Droit international (Institute for International Law) in 1873 .

Life

Augusto Pierantoni was first Ministerial Secretary in Turin and later Professor of Constitutional Law and International Law at the Universities of Modena (from 1865), Naples (from 1871) and Rome (from 1876). In addition, he became a member of the Italian Senate in 1883. In 1885 he represented his home country at the Paris conference on navigation in the Suez Canal .

Together with ten other lawyers from different countries, he founded the Institut de Droit international (Institute for International Law) in the Belgian city of Ghent in September 1873 . The aim of this institution, which has existed to this day and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1904 , is the further development of international law. In the same year he was nominated for the award because of his services to international law and international arbitration .

From 1868 he was married to the poet Grazia Pierantoni-Mancini , a daughter of the lawyer Pasquale Stanislao Mancini , who was also involved in founding the Institut de Droit international and became its first president.

Legal philosophical views

Augusto Pierantoni saw the foundations of international law primarily in a number of general principles, including the principle of nationality and the principle of non-interference, and viewed their dissemination as a prerequisite for the progress of international law. This view of the development of international law through an interaction between ideas and their practical design was opposed by the legal positivist view that was also widespread in international law at the time , which saw the basis of law solely in written norms.

Works (selection)

Dell'abolizione della pena di morte , 1865

• Anna di Messina , 1860.
• Dell'abolizione della pena di morte ( it ). Tip. del diritto, Torino 1865.
• Il progresso del diritto pubblico e delle genti. Modena 1866; German edition: The progress of international law in the XIX. Century. Vahlen, Berlin 1899
• Il giuramento: storia, legge, politica. Rome 1883
• The progress of international law in the XIX. Century. Vahlen, Berlin 1899 (translated edition)
• Gli avvocati di Roma antica. Zanichelli, Bologna 1900
• Storia degli studi del diritto internazionale in Italia. Firenze 1902

literature

• Piërantōni, Augusto . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 15, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, pp.  866–867 .
• Augusto Pierantoni . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 21 : Papua – Posselt . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1915, Sp. 831 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Peter Macalister-Smith: Bio-Bibliographical Key to the Membership of the Institut de Droit International, 1873-2001. In: Journal of the History of International Law. 2, 2003, 1, pp. 77-159, ISSN  1388-199X .

Web links

• Publications by Augusto Pierantoni in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale
• Entry in the Archivio storico of the Italian Senate ( Senatori dell'Italia Liberale )