Lassa Oppenheim

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Lassa Francis Lawrence Oppenheim (born March 30, 1858 in Windecken , † October 7, 1919 in Cambridge ) was a German lawyer who is considered to be the co-founder of modern international law .

Life

Lassa Oppenheim attended the municipal high school in Frankfurt am Main . After graduating from high school in 1878, he studied law at the universities of Berlin , Göttingen , Heidelberg and Leipzig . In 1881 he received his doctorate in Göttingen and completed his habilitation in 1885 at the University of Freiburg . In the following years Oppenheim, who was a student of the criminal lawyer Karl Binding , worked as a private lecturer and from 1889 as a non-official adjunct professor in the field of criminal law. In 1892 he took over a full professorship at the University of Basel . In 1895 he went to England and lived there until his death.

Oppenheim initially taught at the London School of Economics . In 1908 he became Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge . His main work is the internationally known International Law: A Treatise, which appeared in 1905 and is still known today as a standard textbook of international law. He was an honorary member of the Greek Philological Society in Constantinople .

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  1. ↑ The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 2, page 288
personal data
SURNAME Oppenheim, Lassa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppenheim, Lassa Francis Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Wind corners
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1919
Place of death Cambridge