Leonid Pitamic

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Leonid Pitamic

Leonid Pitamic (born December 15, 1885 in Postojna , † June 30, 1971 in Ljubljana ) was a Yugoslav legal scholar, philosopher, educator and Yugoslav ambassador .

Life

Pitamic was the son of the lawyer Ivan Pitamic and his wife Irena, b. Maricki. He attended grammar school in Gorica / Görz , then the Theresianum in Vienna, where he graduated from high school in 1903. From 1903 to 1907 he studied law in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1908. Until 1913 he worked for the state government in Ljubljana and for the district authorities in Krško , Litija and Postojna , from 1913 he was back in Vienna. In 1915 he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Law in Vienna as a private lecturer for general political theory and Austrian constitutional law and in 1917 for legal philosophy. In 1918 he became an associate professor at the university inCzernowitz , could not take this position because of the war. He went to Ljubljana, where he was politically active, among other things he was a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the peace conference in Paris. Pitamic was one of the founders of the University of Ljubljana and the first dean of the Faculty of Law (1919/20 and 1940/41). In the school year 1925/26 he took over the post of rector of the University of Ljubljana. Between 1929 and 1934 he was also under King I. Alexander ambassador of Yugoslavia in the United States . In 1935 he retired as ambassador and was now a professor at the University of Ljubljana until he retired in 1952.

Pitamic published around 70 monographs, articles, treatises and book reviews in several languages, primarily in Slovenian, German and English.

He was a member of the International Institute for Public Law in Paris and the International Diplomatic Academy in Paris. In addition, the Catholic University of America in Washington awarded him an honorary doctorate. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana until 1948, when he was not confirmed as a full member for political reasons. He has been listed among the deceased academy members since 1988, and in 1996 he was rehabilitated by the academy. In the same year a bust of Pitamic was placed in front of the university building.

Works (selection)

  • Right of the member of parliament to diet , Vienna: Deuticke 1913 (Wiener Staatswissenschaftliche Studien; 11, 2).
  • The parliamentary participation in state treaties in Austria , Vienna: Deuticke 1915 (Wiener Staatswissenschaftliche Studien; 12, 1).
  • The economic prerequisites of jurisprudence , [Vienna]: [Manz] [1917].
  • On the doctrine of the judicial function . In: Society, State and Law , ed. by Alfred Verdross with collabor. by Josef Dobretsberger, Vienna 1931, pp. [295] –308.
  • A treatise on the state , Baltimore, Md .: Furst 1933.
  • At the limits of pure legal theory , Kiel University Library

literature

  • Marijan Pavcnik: Leonid Pitamic . In: Robert Walter / Alfred Schramm: The circle around Hans Kelsen. The early years of pure legal theory , Vienna: Manz 2008 (series of the Hans Kelsen Institute; 30), ISBN 978-3-214-07676-4 , pp. 325-350.

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personal data
SURNAME Pitamic, Leonid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav lawyer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Postojna
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1971
Place of death Ljubljana