Géza Herczegh

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Géza Gábor Herczegh (born  October 17, 1928 in Veľké Kapušany , Hungarian Nagykapos , Czechoslovakia ; † January 11, 2010 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian lawyer specializing in international law . From 1967 to 1990 he worked as a professor at the University of Pécs , from 1990 to 1993 as Vice-President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court and from 1993 to 2003 as a judge at the International Court of Justice .

Life

Géza Herczegh was born in 1928 in the then Czechoslovak, now Slovak city ​​of Nagykapos ( Hungarian ), Veľké Kapušany ( Slovak ), the majority of the population of which are Hungarians . After attending school in Gödöllő, Hungary, he studied law at the University of Science in Szeged , which he graduated in 1951. He then worked until 1967 as a research assistant in the field of international law at the Institute for Political Science in Budapest , during which time he received his doctorate in 1965. From 1967 to 1990 he was Professor and Director of the Department of International Law at the University of Pécs and from 1981 to 1987 as well Dean of their law school. In addition, as a guest lecturer, he held lectures and seminars at various foreign universities on international humanitarian law , in particular on its implementation and dissemination. He also represented his home country and the Hungarian Red Cross at various international conferences, including from 1974 to 1977 as a member of the Hungarian delegation at the conference that led to the conclusion of the first two additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions .

From 1990 to 1993 he was judge and Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság Alkotmánybírósága ). From May 1993, he succeeded Manfred Lachs , who died in January of the same year, as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague . He became the first and so far only Hungarian judge at the ICJ and, after Bohdan Winiarski and Manfred Lachs, the first representative of the Central and Eastern Europe region since the court was founded in 1946, who did not come from Poland . After serving for the remaining term of office of Salmon until the beginning of February 1994, he was re-elected in November 1993 for a regular nine-year term, which he completed until February 2003.

Géza Herczegh was married from 1961 and has two children. He died in Budapest in January 2010 . His daughter Anita is married to the current Hungarian President János Áder .

Awards

Géza Herczegh has been a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1985 and a full member since 1990 . The universities in Marburg (1990) and Pécs (2000) awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Works (selection)

  • Expert opinion of the Institute for Political and Legal Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on the international legal situation in Hungary after March 19, 1944. Budapest 1965
  • General Principles of Law and the International Legal Order. Budapest 1969
  • Development of International Humanitarian Law. Budapest 1984

literature

  • Judge Géza Herczegh. In: Yearbook of the International Court of Justice 2002-2003. Volume 57. United Nations Publications, The Hague 2006, ISBN 92-1-170080-9 , pp. 58/59
  • Géza Herczegh. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 90-411-0468-2 , p. 290

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personal data
SURNAME Herczegh, Géza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herczegh, Géza Gábor (full name); Nagykapos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian lawyer, judge at the Constitutional Court of Hungary and the International Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagykapos
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2010
Place of death Budapest