Leopold von Neumann

Leopold von Neumann ( Franz Eybl , 1842)

Leopold Freiherr von Neumann (* 23. October 1811 in Zalischyky , Galicia , † 7. December 1888 in Gries near Bolzano ) was an Austrian jurist and heads of state and international lawyers . From 1849 to 1883 he worked as a professor of international law and statistics at the University of Vienna and from 1869 onwards he was also a member of the Herrenhaus, one of the two chambers of the Austrian Imperial Council .

Life

Leopold Freiherr von Neumann was born in Salishchyky in 1811 and, after attending grammar school in Chernivtsi , studied law at the universities of Lemberg and Vienna , which he completed with a doctorate in 1834 . Subsequently, he was court chamber procurator and also supplent (assistant teacher) for natural law and statistics at the Theresian Knight Academy (Theresianum) in Vienna . From 1840 he taught there as a professor the subjects of international law and diplomatic history. From 1849 to 1883 he worked as a professor of international law and statistics at the University of Vienna, where he was rector in 1867/1868 and dean of the law faculty in 1856/1857 .

In 1848, after the March Revolution , he was elected to the newly formed Austrian Reichstag , of which he was a member until it was dissolved the following year. In addition, he was a member of the Vienna City Council several times . From 1869 he was a lifetime member of the manor house, which was one of the two chambers of the Austrian Imperial Council . He died in Gries near Bozen in 1888 .

Awards

In 1874 Leopold Freiherr von Neumann was appointed a member of the Institut de Droit international (Institute for International Law) founded the year before . In 1880 he was raised to the baron status, and he was also a knight of the Franz Joseph Order and the Order of the Iron Crown .

Works (selection)

• Consular Handbook. Vienna 1854
• Outline of today's European international law. Vienna 1855
• The relationship between Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark. Vienna 1864

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Neumann, Leopold . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 20th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1869, p. 273 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Neumann, Leopold Freiherr von . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 17, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 608. - Supplementary volume.
• B. Böck:  Neumann, Leopold Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 94.
• Peter Macalister-Smith: Bio-Bibliographical Key to the Membership of the Institut de Droit International, 1873-2001. In: Journal of the History of International Law. 5 (1) / 2003. Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 77-159, ISSN  1388-199X .