Michał Jan Rostworowski

Michał Jan Graf Rostworowski (born  August 27, 1864 in Dresden , †  March 24, 1940 in Gromnik near Tarnów ) was a Polish - Austrian lawyer . From 1903 to 1930 he was professor of international and constitutional law at the University of Krakow , where he also served as rector from 1925/1926, and was a judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice from 1931 to 1940 .

Life

Michał Graf Rostworowski came from a Russian-Polish noble family and was born in Dresden in 1864 , where his family had settled after the January uprising of 1863. He graduated from until 1884 University of Warsaw and then to 1888 at the University of St. Petersburg to study law . He also attended courses in history at St. Petersburg University, where he graduated . He devoted himself to further studies from 1889 to 1891 at the École libre des sciences politiques in Paris , from 1891 to 1893 at the University of Krakow , where he also received his doctorate in 1893 , and from 1893 to 1995 at the universities of Bern and Vienna .

In 1896 he was appointed private lecturer in international law and international private law at the University of Krakow , and in the same year he became an Austrian citizen. In 1903 he was appointed associate professor and, five years later, full professor of international law as well as general and Austrian constitutional law. At the Law Faculty of Kraków University he founded the School of Political Science in 1910, of which he became the director. In addition, he served as dean of the faculty in 1912/1913 and as rector of the university in 1925/1926 , where he worked until 1930. From 1920 he drafted a series of bills as a member of the Codification Commission of the newly formed Polish Republic after the First World War .

Michał Graf Rostworowski was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague from 1923 and was a member of several international arbitration commissions. In 1925 and 1928 he acted as Poland's delegate to the fifth and sixth sessions of the Hague Conference on Private International Law , and he was also a member of the Polish delegation to the sessions of the Assembly of the League of Nations on several occasions . On September 25, 1930, he was elected judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice , having already served four ad hoc judges there in 1925, 1926, 1928 and 1929 . After the judges' elections planned for 1939 did not take place as a result of the start of the Second World War , he remained in office like the other judges working at the court at that time. He died in Gromnik near Tarnów in 1940 . A by-election to fill the vacant judge post due to his death did not take place due to the war until the court was dissolved.

Michał Graf Rostworowski was a member of the Institut de Droit international from 1898 .

Works (selection)

• Austryacka Izba panów. Łódź 1900
• Rada ministrów i Rada stanu Ksie̜stwa Warszawskiego. Krakow 1911
• Wojna i treatise pokojowy. Krakow 1916
• Dziennik czynnosci Komisyi Rządzącej. Krakow 1918
• League narodów. Krakow 1920

literature

• Biographical Notes concerning the Judges and Deputy-Judges. Count Rostvorovsky, Judge. In: Seventh Annual Report of the Permanent Court of International Justice. AW Sijthoff's Publishing, Leiden 1931, pp. 25/26
• WM Bartel:  Rostworowski, Michał Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 273.
• MB Biskupski: Rostworowski, Michał Cezary. In: Warren F. Kuehl (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists. Greenwood Press, Westport 1983, ISBN 0-313-22129-4 , pp. 639-641