Bohdan Winiarski

Bohdan Winiarski (1932)

Bohdan Stefan Winiarski (born April 27, 1884 in Bohdanów, Powiat Łomżyński ; † December 4, 1969 in Poznan ) was a Polish lawyer . He served as a professor at the University of Poznan from 1921 and was a judge at the International Court of Justice from 1946 to 1967 , including President of the Court from 1961 to 1964. His scientific work, for which he was accepted into the Institut de Droit international in 1929 , particularly concerned Polish and French constitutional law as well as international water law .

Life

Memorial bust for Bohdan Winiarski in Łomża

Bohdan Winiarski was born in Bohdanów in the Powiat Łomżyński in 1884 and studied law in Warsaw and Cracow from 1905 to 1909 . He received his doctorate in 1910 at the Jagiellonian University and then continued his studies from 1910 to 1911 in Paris and Heidelberg . After initially teaching at the School of Political Science in Cracow, he moved to the University of Poznan as a professor in 1921 . In the 1920s he was a member of the Polish delegations to several meetings of the General Assembly of the League of Nations .

From 1921 to 1927 he was a member and from 1925 to 1927 President of the Committee of the League of Nations on River Law, i.e. regulating interstate relations in the use of rivers . In 1944 he was a member of the allied committee on the future of the Permanent International Court of Justice . Two years later he was elected judge at the newly established International Court of Justice . He held this office until 1967, during which time he was President of the Court from 1961 to 1964. In addition, he worked in 1965 as President in Warsaw held the 52nd meeting of the Institut de Droit International , where he served since 1929th

Bohdan Winiarski died in Poznan in 1969 .

Act

The scientific work of Bohdan Winiarski mainly comprised work on Polish and French constitutional law as well as international water law , especially river law. He also made important contributions to a better understanding of international law in his home country and the Polish legal system abroad.

Works (selection)

• Ustrój prawno-polityczny Galicyi. Warsaw, Lublin and Łódź 1915
• Les institutions politiques en Pologne au XIXe siècle. Paris 1920
• Wybór źródeł do nauki prawa międzynarodowego. Warsaw 1938

literature

• Manfred Lachs : The Teacher in International Law: Teachings and Teaching. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1982, ISBN 90-247-2566-6 , pp. 120-123
• Bohdan Stefan Winiarski. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2 , p. 337