Background
He was born at Zurich on the 7th of March 1808, the son of a soap and candle manufacturer.
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He was born at Zurich on the 7th of March 1808, the son of a soap and candle manufacturer.
From school he passed into the Politische Institut (a seminary of law and political science) in his native town, and proceeding thence to the universities of Berlin and Bonn, took the degree of doctor juris in the latter in 1829.
Returning to Zurich in 1830, he threw himself with ardour into the political strife which was at the time unsettling all the cantons of the Confederation, and in this year published Uber die Verfassung der Stadt Ziirich (On the Constitution of the City of Zurich).
Fascinated by the metaphysical views of the philosopher Friedrich Rohmer (1814 - 1856), a man who attracted little other attention, he endeavoured in Psycho- logische Studien uber Staat und Kirche (1844) to apply them to political science generally, and in particular as a panacea for the constitutional troubles of Switzerland.
He resigned his seat, and on the overthrow of the Sonderbund in 1847, perceiving that all hope of power for his party was lost, took leave of Switzerland with the pamphlet Stimme eines Schweizers uber die Bundesreform (1847), and settled at Munich, where he became professor of constitutional law in 1848.
At Munich he devoted himself with energy to the special work of his chair, and, resisting the temptation to identify himself with politics, published Allgemeines Staalsrecht (1851 - 1852); Lehre vom modernen Staat (1875 - 1876); and, in conjunction with Karl Ludwig Theodor Brater (1819 - 1869), Deutsches Staats- worterbuch (n vols. , 1857-1870; abridged by Edgar Loening in 3 vols. , 1869-1875).
His Das moderne Kriegsrecht (1866); Das moderne Volkerrecht (1868), and Das Beutcrecht im Krieg (1878) are likely to remain invaluable text-books in this branch of the science of jurisprudence.
His library was acquired by Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, U. S. A. Among his works, other than those before mentioned, may be cited Deutsches Privatrecht (1853 - 1854); Deutsche Staatslehre filr Gebildete (1874); and Deutsche Staatslehre und die heutige Slaatenwelt (1880).
His Das moderne Kriegsrecht (1866); Das moderne Völkerrecht der zivilisierten Staaten, als Rechtsbuch dargestellt (1868), and Das Beuterecht im Krieg (1878) are likely to remain invaluable text-books in this branch of the science of jurisprudence.
He was the author of the Lieber Code during the American Civil War
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During the latter years of his life he took a lively interest in the Protestantenverein, a society formed to combat reactionary and ultramontane views of theology.
In 1830 he became involved in Swiss politics as a supporter of constitutionalism.
In 1837 he was elected a member of the great council, of which he became president; in this position his unbending conservatism led to grave dissensions.
He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1875.
