Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern

Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern (born  June 15, 1918 in Mährisch Schönberg , Austria-Hungary ; †  July 25, 2001 in Vienna ) was an Austrian legal scholar who worked particularly in the field of international law and from 1954 to 1968 as a professor at Saarland University , from 1968 to 1981 at the University of Cologne and from 1981 to 1988 at the University of Vienna . One of his best-known works is a short textbook that has been published since 1965 under the title “International Law”.

Life

Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern was born in 1918 as the son of a factory owner in Mährisch Schönberg . Unlike many members of the Seidl family who work in the textile industry, he studied law at the universities of Vienna and Geneva after attending the Schottengymnasium in Vienna . He finished his studies in 1946 with a doctorate at the University of Innsbruck , after having done military service from 1938 to 1945 due to the Second World War . From 1946 to 1949 he worked as a consultant in the Austrian Federal Chancellery , initially in the liaison service to the Allied Council and from 1947 in the constitutional service before he worked for a year in the legal department of the OEEC, the predecessor organization of the OECD . He then moved back to the Federal Chancellery, where he was deputy head of the international law department from 1950 to 1952.

In 1951 he was Alfred Verdross-Drossberg at Vienna University habilitated . After a subsequent activity as a private lecturer in Vienna, he accepted an extraordinary professorship for public law and international law at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken in 1954 , where he was promoted to full professor in 1958 and in 1963/1964 as dean of legal and international law State Science Faculty acted. In 1968 he changed to a chair for international and constitutional law at the University of Cologne , which he held until 1981. He then worked as Professor of International Law at the University of Vienna until his retirement in September 1988. From 1956 to 1974 he was also a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges , and from 1968 and 1986 he also taught at the Hague Academy of International Law . He died in Vienna in 2001 .

Act

Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern's legal work covered a wide range of topics from the theory and practice of international law, including international organizations , international business law , international environmental law and European law . A defining aspect of his work was the preoccupation with the influence of state interventions on private property rights .

Awards

Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern was accepted into the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1988 and from 1960 was also a corresponding member of the Spanish Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas . In addition, from 1969 he was a member of the Institut de Droit international . The University of Paris V awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1978 , and in 1989 he received the Silver Medal of Honor from the University of Vienna.

Works (selection)

• International law of confiscation and expropriation. Series: Contributions to foreign and international private law. Volume 23. Berlin and Tübingen 1952
• Practical cases from international law. Vienna 1958
• International law and the legal worldview. Festschrift for Alfred Verdross . Vienna 1960 (as editor with Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte )
• International law. Cologne, Berlin, Bonn and Munich 1965, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2005
• The law of international organizations, including supranational communities. Cologne, Berlin, Bonn and Munich 1967, 1971, 1979, 1984, 1992
• Lexicon of Law. International law. Neuwied 1985, 1992, 2001 (as editor)
• The Status of International Officials. Vienna 1987
• International Economic Law. The Hague, London and Boston 1989, 1993, 1999

literature

• Seidl-Hohenveldern, Ignaz. In: Heribert Sturm, Ferdinand Seibt , Helmut Slapnicka: Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries. Volume 4. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56248-7 , p. 31
• In Memoriam Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern (1918–2001). In: Gerhard Loibl (Ed.): Austrian Review of International and European Law. 5/2000. Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2002, ISBN 90-411-1802-0 , pp. 1-4
• mentioned by Ignaz Seidl (III.). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005,ISBN 3-7001-3580-7, p. 123.
• Gerhard Hafner:  Seidl-Hohenveldern, Ignaz Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 183-185 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gerhard Loibl, Thomas W Bäumen: Obituary: Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern (1918–2001) (English)