Georg Jellinek

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Georg Jellinek
Georg Jellinek
Born(1851-06-16)16 June 1851
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Died12 January 1911(1911-01-12) (aged 59)
Heidelberg, Baden, Germany
OccupationJurist

Georg Jellinek (16 June 1851 – 12 January 1911) was a German public lawyer and was considered to be "the exponent of public law in Austria“.[1]

Life

Jellinek was born in Leipzig.[2] His father, Adolp Jellinek, was an Austrian rabbi.[2]

From 1867, Jellinek studied law, history of art and philosophy at the University of Vienna. He also studied philosophy, history and law in Heidelberg and Leipzig up until 1872. He was the son of Adolf Jellinek, a famous preacher in Vienna's Jewish community. In 1872 he completed his Dr. phil. thesis in Leipzig (The Socio-Ethical Meaning of Justice, Injustice and Punishment) and in 1874 also his Dr. jur. in Vienna.

In 1879 he qualified as a professor at the University of

University of Heidelberg
. In 1900 he compiled his main work, General Theory of the State.

He was married to

Theresienstadt concentration camp; and youngest son, Otto, who died in 1943 as a result of abuse at the hands of the Gestapo
.

Jellinek is best known for his essay The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1895), which argues for a universal theory of rights, as opposed to the culturally and nationally specific arguments then in vogue (particularly that of

political theory, should not be thought of as arising from a purely French tradition (namely the tradition stemming from Jean-Jacques Rousseau
) but as a close analogue of revolutionary movements and ideas in England and the United States.

Career

His grave in Heidelberg

Jellinek studied law in 1867 at the

dissertation on The Worldviews of Leibnitz and Schopenhauer and received his Dr. phil. In 1874, he also received the Dr. jur.

In 1879 Jellinek received his

University of Heidelberg, and in 1900 he wrote his magnum opus, the General Theory of State. In 1907 he became the first Jewish rector
of Heidelberg University.

Writings

The majority of Jellinek's writings remains yet untranslated from the German original.

Literature

  • Andreas Anter (Hrsg.): Die normative Kraft des Faktischen: das Staatsverständnis Georg Jellineks. Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2004,
    ISBN 3-8329-0733-5
    .
  • Alexander Hollerbach (1974), "Jellinek, Georg", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 10, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 391–392; (full text online)
  • Camilla Jellinek: Georg Jellinek. Ein Lebensbild. In: Georg Jellinek, Ausgewählte Schriften und Reden, Bd. 1, Neudruck Aalen 1970, S. 5–140.
  • Christian Keller: Victor Ehrenberg und Georg Jellinek. Briefwechsel 1872–1911, Frankfurt am Main 2005,
    ISBN 978-3-465-03406-3
    .
  • Klaus Kempter: Die Jellineks 1820–1955. Eine familienbiographische Studie zum deutschjüdischen Bildungsbürgertum. Düsseldorf 1998.
  • Jens Kersten: Georg Jellinek und die klassische Staatslehre. Verlag Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2000,
    ISBN 3-16-147348-5
    .
  • Realino Marra: La religione dei diritti. Durkheim – Jellinek – Weber. Giappichelli, Turin 2006,
    ISBN 88-348-6617-7
    .
  • Stanley L. Paulson (Hrsg.): Georg Jellinek: Beiträge zu Leben und Werk. Verlag Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2000,
    ISBN 3-16-147377-9
    .

References

  1. ISBN 3-16-147377-9
    .
  2. ^
    ISSN 0002-9300
    .

Further reading

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