Richard Bäumlin, born 9 September 1927 in Berne, retired in Erlenbach im Simmental, did his studies in jurisprudence at the Universities of Berne and Göttingen, before presenting his doctor’s thesis in Berne in 1954, where he taught as a private lecturer starting 1957.
Category Archives: Biographies of Authors – Philosophy of Law
Arthur Baumgarten
Arthur Baumgarten, born 31 March 1884 in Königsberg, died 27 November 1966 in Berlin (East), was originally a German citizen, but from 1936 was also a Swiss citizen, as he married Nina Helena von Salis-Soglio. He conducted his legal and philosophical studies at the Universities of Tübingen, Geneva, Leipzig and Berlin, where he received his promotion in 1909.
Jean-Charles Biaudet
Jean-Charles Biaudet, born on 19 February 1910 in Montreux, died on 7 August 2000 in Cully, spent his life in Algérie and Paris until 1930. From 1932 to 1933 he was a teacher at the institution “Le Rosey” in Rolle. In 1936, he finished his studies at the University of Lausanne, and in 1940 he received his doctorate.
Marcel Bridel
Marcel Bridel, born on 19 May 1898 in Clarens (Montreux), died on 11 April 1980 in Lausanne, did his studies in jurisprudence at the Universities of Lausanne and Paris, before receiving his doctorate in 1927 from the University of Lausanne.
Walther Burckhardt
Walther Burckhardt, born 19 May 1871 in Riehen, died 1 October 1939 in Berne, pursued his legal studies at the Universities of Leipzig, Neuchâtel, Berlin and Berne, where he graduated and obtained a doctorate with Eugen Huber.
Pio Caroni
Pio Caroni, born in 1938 in Ticino (Switzerland), concluded his studies in jurisprudence at the University of Berne, after having been abroad in Germany and Italy. In 1971, he was called on the chair for legal history at the same University, where he remained for more than thirty years, and where he signed as a rector later in his academical career.
Jean Darbellay
Jean Darbellay, born 1912, died 18 September 2008, promoted in 1944 at the University of Freiburg im Üechtland (Switzerland), and ten years later he was nominated extraordinary professor. In 1972 he changed to the chair for public law (i.e. constitutional and administrative law), general jurisprudence and legal philosophy at the very same university and was dean of the faculty for two years, in 1958 and 1967. He was an emeritus since 1982
Claude Du Pasquier
Claude Du Pasquier, born on 2 April 1886 in Le Havre (France), died on 23 January 1953 in Neuchâtel, obtained in 1909 a doctorate from the University of Lausanne and in 1912 he passed the lawyer’s examinations.
Alfred Dufour
Alfred Dufour, born on 3 December 1938 in Zurich, accomplished his studies at the Universities of Geneva, Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau and received a master’s degree in jurisprudence and in philosophy from the University of Geneva in 1961 and 1962, respectively.
Gregor Edlin
Selected Works of the Author
Gregor Edlin: Recht und Rechtsnorm – Kritische Essays, Dissertation Universität Zürich, 1918.
Peter Feddersen
Peter Feddersen, born on 18 January 1812 in Altona nearby Hamburg, dead on 5 July 1874 in Basel, is a very interesting figure, originated in Mecklenburg, he married an Italian woman, Esther Daverio Possenti, as his future wife.
Fritz Fleiner
Fritz Fleiner, born 24 January 1867 in Aarau, died 26 October 1937 in Ascona, received his academic education at the Universities of Zurich, Leipzig, Berlin and Paris, before he was promoted and habilitated in public law of the religion communities in 1890 and 1892, and in consequence was private lecturer and later extraordinary professor at the University of Zurich from 1892 on.
Oscar Adolf Germann
Oscar Adolf Germann, born 19 August 1889 in Frauenfeld, died 1 December 1979 in Bottmingen, followed his jurisprudential studies in Germany and Austria, before obtaining his doctorate at the University of Zurich in 1914.
François Gilliard
François Gilliard, born on 25 October 1921, died 27 November 2003, followed his studies in jurisprudence at the University of Lausanne, with semesters at the Sorbonne University in Paris (he studied with René Le Senne and Jean Hyppolite). From 1952 to 1961 he was extraordinary professor, then until 1987 ordinary professor for private law at the University of Lausanne. He was also charged by lectures on legal philosophy.
Robert Grimm
Robert Grimm, born 16 April 1881 in Wald (ZH), died 8 March 1858 in Berne, represented the prototype of working-class intelligence, when he learned the profession of typography and travelled to France, Austria and Italy.
Arnold Gysin
Arnold Gysin, born 29 August 1897 in Basel, died 13 October 1980 in Lucerne, obtained his doctorate in 1923 at the University of Berne, before practicing as a lawyer in Zurich and Lucerne. From 1924 to 1934 he was a private lecturer at the University of Basel. Between 1952 and 1968 he was a federal judge at the insurance court, in the years 1960 and 1961 its president.
Peter Häberle
Peter Häberle, born on 13 May 1934 in Göppingen (Germany), has been charged to lecture legal philosophy at the University of St. Gallen for more than twenty years. He persecuted studies in jurisprudence at the Universities of Tübingen, Bonn, Freiburg im Breisgau and Montpellier and received his doctorate in 1961 from the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg (Germany), as a scholar of Konrad Hesse.
Ulrich Häfelin
Ulrich Häfelin, born on 26 March 1923, died on 2 May 2016, after having prepared his promotion with Zaccaria Giacometti in 1959 handed in his habilitation thesis on the same subject in 1961 at the University of Zurich.
Michael Walter Hebeisen, Editor and Author
Michael Walter Hebeisen, born on 9th January 1965, after having studied violoncello and musicology at the Conservatory of Berne, followed his studies in jurisprudence at the University of Berne, with semesters abroad at the University of Cambridge. He graduated in 1992 and received his doctorate in 1994, after having collaborated with doctor father Peter Saladin.
Carl Hilty
Carl Hilty, born on 28 February 1833 in Grabs, dead on 12 October 1909 in Clarens, studied jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen (1851-1853) and graduated 1854 with a doctor’s degree from the University of Heidelberg. Afterwards, he went to Paris and London, before founding a lawyer’s chancery in Chur in Graubünden, his native Swiss canton. He was nevertheless more occupied with publishing studies of public law as well as religious and ethical essays, than with defending clients in court.
Georg Hinderling
Hans Georg Hinderling received his doctorate in 1971 at the University of Basel, and in 1973 he also received an LL.M. of Harvard Law School. Since 1971, he is an independent advocate in Basel; he is chairman of the Swiss section (VDF) of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (WFDSA).
Elisabeth Hruschka
Elisabeth Hruschka, born on 6 September 1935 in Steinheim (Westfalen, Germany), has concluded her studies in jurisprudence at the Universities of Marburg, München and Freiburg im Üechtland (Switzerland). In 1961 and 1966 she passed the two stages of the German juridical state examinations, before receiving her doctorate at the University of Freiburg in 1967.
Eugen Huber
Eugen Huber, born 13 July 1849 in Oberstammheim, died 23 April 1923 in Berne, followed (among others) the lectures of Rudolf von Ihering at the University of Vienna during his studies. Rudolf Stammler and Max von Rümelin were counted among his friends.
Hans Huber
Hans Huber, born 24 May 1901 in St. Gallen, died 13 November 1987 in Muri bei Bern, followed the course of his jurisprudential studies at the Universities of Zurich and Berne, mainly with Walther Burckhardt, and obtained a doctorate in 1926. After having been secretary and later judge of the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne, he taught public law and international law at the University of Berne, where he was chancellor in 1960. He represented the young-liberal movement and in his domain, he introduced insights of the social and political sciences as well as historical reflections into legal thinking and legislation.
Max Huber
Max Huber, born 28 December 1874 in Zurich, died 1 January 1960 in Zurich, studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Lausanne, Zurich and Berlin, where he acquired a doctorate.
Max Imboden
Max Imboden, born 19 June 1915 in St. Gallen, died 7 April 1969 in Basel, studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Geneva, Berne and Zurich, and he obtained a doctorate with his dissertation “Bundesrecht bricht kantonales Recht” (1939) with Zaccaria Giacometti.
Werner Kägi
Werner Kägi, born on 26 August 1909 in Biel, died on 4 October 2005 in Zurich, completed his studies in jurisprudence and theology in Zurich, Berlin (with Dietrich Bonhoeffer), and London.
Nikolaus Kreissl
After having received his doctorate in 1970, Nikolaus Kreissl entered the administration of the Canton of Basel Stadt.
Peter Liver
Peter Liver, born 21 August 1902 in Flerden, died 10 September 1994 in Ittigen, first studied history at the Universities of Jena, Berlin and Zurich, before he received his doctorate in Jurisprudence from the University of Berne (1928 resp. 1931). Between 1939 and 1944 he was professor at the well-known Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, before moving to the University of Berne, where he was an academic teacher in legal history and private law.
Hans Marti
Hans Marti, born in 1896, died in 1985, concluded his studies in jurisprudence at the University of Berne in 1939 by becoming an approved advocate. Subsequently he went to the Académie de droit international in Den Haag.
Jörg Paul Müller
Jörg Paul Müller (born 1938) studied law and sociology at the Universities of Geneva and Bern and earned an LL.M. from Harvard. In 1971 he was admitted to the bar of the canton of Bern. In the same year he earned his post-doctoral habilitation at the University of Bern where he was a full professor for Constitutional Law, International Law and Philosophy of Law from 1971 to 2001. He also taught constitutional law, theory of state and political ethics at the universities of Freiburg i.Ü., Basel and St. Gallen and at ETH Zurich.
W. Timothy Murphy
W. Timothy Murphy is currently a reader in Law at the London School of Economics.
Hans Nef
Hans Nef, born on 3 November 1911 in Herisau, died on 6 January 2000, has been the son of a docent for philosophy and literature. During his studies he signed as a member of the so-called “Kampfgruppe gegen den geistigen Terror”.
Wilhelm Oswald
Wilhelm Oswald, born 3 March 1900 in Bünzen, died 20 October 1982 in Fribourg, started with philosophical studies at the University of Rome, and changed later to jurisprudence, studying at the Universities of Rome, Freiburg im Üechtland (Switzerland) and Zurich.
William E. Rappard
William Emmanuel Rappard, born 22 April 1883 in New York, died 29 April 1858 in Bellevue, grew up in the United States of America before settling down in the Geneva area in his adolescence.
Manfred Rehbinder
Manfred Rehbinder, born on 22 March 1935 in Berlin, followed his legal studies at the Free University of Berlin. After his master’s degree, he worked for Ernst E. Hirsch for two years, before obtaining his doctorate in 1961 (see his thesis “Die öffentliche Aufgabe und rechtliche Verantwortlichkeit der Presse – Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Wahrnehmung berechtigter Interessen”).
Ernest-Alexandre Roguin
Ernest Roguin, born on 27 May 1851 in Yverdon-les-Bains, died on 5 May 1939 in Lausanne, followed his studies in jurisprudence at the Universities of Lausanne and Leipzig from 1869 onwards and obtained his master’s degree in 1874 by the Academy of Lausanne (which at that time has not yet been a University properly speaking and, therefore, did not have the permission to award doctorates).
Max Rümelin
Max Friedrich Gustav von Rümelin, born on 15 February 1861 in Stuttgart, died on 22 July 1931 in Tübingen, was chancellor of the University of Tübingen between 1908 and 1931, after having been nominated as a rector of the same institution already two years before and was an ordinary professor since 1895. Before being engaged in southern Germany he was already a professor for jurisprudence, roman law and civil procedural law at the Martin Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Hans Ryffel
Hans Ryffel, born 27 June 1913 in Berne, died 30 September 1989 in Thun, studied from 1932 onwards both jurisprudence and philosophy at the University of Berne. In 1943 he handed in his dissertation “Das Naturrecht“ at the philosophical-historical faculty.
Peter Saladin
Peter Saladin, born 4 February 1935 in Basel, died 25 May 1997 in Berne, studied jurisprudence at the University of Basel, where he received a doctorate in 1961, being a scholar of Max Imboden.
Dietrich Schindler (senior)
Dietrich Schindler (senior), born 3 December 1890 in Zurich, died 1 January 1948 in the same town, did his legal studies at the Universities of Zurich, Leipzig and Berlin, before he presented his promotion thesis in 1916 and his habilitation thesis in Zurich. In 1936 he was nominated ordinary professor for public law (federal constitutional und administrative law) as well as for international law and legal philosophy. For a long period, he was the legal adviser of the Swiss government.
Charles Secrétan
Charles Secrétan, born on 19 January 1815 in Lausanne, died on 21 January 1895, obtained a licence in jurisprudence at the academy of Lausanne, before he went to Munich in 1835 to study with Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.
August Simonius
August Simonius, born 7 August 1885 in Basel, died 24 December 1957 in his native town, followed his legal studies at the Universities of Basel, Paris, Berlin and Leipzig, before was he promoted in 1915 in Basel, where he was ordinary professor for roman law and the law of obligations, and where he was also dean and chancellor.
Rudolf Stammler
Rudolf Stammler, born on 19 February 1856 in Alsfeld, died 25 April 1938 in Wernigerode, was an eminent representative of Neo-Kantian current of legal thought. He had studied at the Universities of Giessen and Leipzig and obtained a doctorate in 1877 based on a dissertation on “Notstand im Strafrecht”.
Ludwig Stein
Ludwig Stein, born on 12 November 1859 in Erdö-Benye (Hungary), died on 13 July 1930 in Salzburg, went to Berlin and Halle an der Saale in order to study philosophy with Eduard Zeller and Wilhelm Dilthey.
Aloïs Troller
Aloïs Troller (1906-1987) was the eminent academic and practicing Swiss intellectual property lawyer of the 20th century. He combined legal practice and theory of intellectual property law, including legal philosophy. He was a legal practitioner in Lucerne as of 1941 and Professor of Law at the University of Fribourg.
Anna Tumarkin
Anna Tumarkin, born on 16 February 1872 in Dubrowna (Belarus), died on 7 August 1951 in Muri bei Bern, was a Jewish Philosopher originating from Russia. Initially, she was educated to be a teacher in Kischinew. In 1892, she settled in Berne to perfect her philosophical studies with Ludwig Stein, who was also Jewish.
Rudolf von Ihering
Rudolf von Ihering, born on 22 August 1818 in Aurich (Germany), died on 20 September 1892 in Göttingen, studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Heidelberg, München, and Göttingen, and from 1838 at the University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1842, and where he was a private lecturer.
Johann Anton von Tillier
Johann Anton von Tillier, born on 24 January 1792 in Berne, died on 16 February 1854 in Munich, has studied history and jurisprudence in Geneva between 1809 and 1811, before leaving Switzerland for Jena in Germany from 1811 to 1813.
Jacob Wackernagel (junior)
Jacob Wackernagel (junior), born on 2 October 1891 in Basel, died on 14 July 1967 in Santa Margherita di Pula (Sardegna), son of the famous classicist with the same name (1853-1938) has been a jurisprudent in legal history at the University of Basel. In 1956, he signed as rector of this academic institution.