Anton Menger

Anton Menger of Wolfensgrün, ( born September 12, 1841 in Maniów, Galicia, † February 6, 1906 in Rome, Italy), was an Austrian jurist and social theorist, who is primarily devoted to the promotion of socialist writings on legal background in addition to his academic activities. Pseudonym: Julius Bergbohm.

Life and work

Menger was from 1874 to 1899 as a university professor working for civil litigation in Vienna; where he was also Rector 1895-1896. His brothers were Max and Menger Carl Menger.

Menger's theses and his reasoning must be seen against the background of a changing social order, which dominated from the mid-19th century studied by economic crisis (1873 ) and the Social Question for answers to a liberal policy ( " invisible hand" of Adam Smith), while after more social justice aims. His legal interest leaves him there unlike Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels mainly come from quite theoretical problems.

In legal theory Menger rejects the justification of legal principles by the law of nature - he calls the other hand, to measure the validity of law in each case to its compliance with the prevailing social relations of power.

His name is well known in connection with the collection of socialist original literature in Vienna. Menger collected everything he could find and made this special " Travel Books " to Paris, London and Berlin, of which he brought socialist specialized literature that has made its library in the world unique. The early 1920s was acquired by the Social Sciences Study Library of the Chamber of Labour Vienna Menger 's private library.

In " lawyer- socialism " ("The New Age. Revue intellectual and public life ". 5 Jg (1887 ), No. 2, pp. 49-62 ) Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky sat down with Menger (1886 ) attacks on Marx's "Capital " and also in principle with the project apart to justify socialism legal theory: " the evidence is promised that Marx a plagiarist, and proved that a word, the ' added value ', even before Marx, albeit in a different sense been used! "

In 1919 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) was named the Menger alley after him.

Works

• The admissibility of new submissions did neuter in the higher courts. A civilprocessualische treatise. Hölder, Vienna 1873. Digitalisat
• System of the Austrian Civil Process Law in comparative legal representation. Hölder, Vienna 1876
• The right to the full product of labor in historical representation. Cotta, Stuttgart 1886 digitized. 2 verb. 1891 edition digitized
• Opinion on the proposals for the establishment of a Federal College of Law and Political Science. J. J. Schabelitz, Zurich 1889
• The Civil Law and the propertyless classes of people. A Critique of the Draft Civil Code for the German Empire. H. Laupp. Tübingen 1890 digitized 4th ed 1908 digitized.
• Julius Bergbohm: New accounting methods of higher mathematics. Self- Verlag, Stuttgart, 1891.
• Julius Bergbohm: New methods of integration due to the potential, Logarithmal and Numeralrechnung. Self- Verlag, Stuttgart, 1892.
• Julius Bergbohm: design of a new calculus, due to the potential Logarithmal and Numeralrechnung. Teubner, Leipzig 1892/1893 (two issues)
• About the social tasks of legal science. Inauguration speech delivered on October 24, 1895 at takeover of the Rectorate of the University of Vienna. Braumüller, Vienna 1895. Digitalisat 2nd edition 1905 digitized.
• New Theory of the State. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1903 digitized.
• New ethics. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1905 digitized.
• People's politics. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1906. Digitalisat