Ivar Afzelius
Ivar Afzelius (15 October 1848, Uppsala – 30 October 1921) was a Swedish jurist and politician.
Having studied law at the universities of
Afzelius is remembered as a precursor of a pan-Scandinavic legislative endeavour, especially the laws of the sea. He has been characterised as the prototype of an idealistic jurist in the liberal state. Still, he sought to link Swedish legal traditions to modern (especially German) dogmatic thought, whose reception in Sweden was strongly furthered by his authority.
He was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905, and of the Swedish Academy in 1907, on seat 4.
Afzelius was a member of the men's association Sällskapet Idun.[1]
References
- OCLC 185162278.
- Modéer, Kjell Åke (2001). "Ivar Afzelius". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.). München: Beck. p. 20. ISBN 3-406-45957-9.
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