Carl Ludwig von Bar

Carl Ludwig von Bar ( born July 24, 1836 in Hannover, † August 20, 1913 in Folkestone, England ) was a German criminal and international law teacher. He was co-founder of the doctrine of private international law.

Life

Carl Ludwig von Bar was born as a son of the Secretary General on the financial transactions of the Royal Hanoverian House Ministry Carl Ludwig von Bar and grew up in Hanover officialdom. His schooling at Ratsgymnasium Hannover he finished not yet 18 years old in 1853. Subsequently, he began at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen his study of law. In addition to the law lectures he attended courses in calculus, economics, history and philosophy. In 1854 he spent a year at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin, to hear lectures on civil law.

At the age of 23, he received a doctorate in law .. This work was followed 15 other works that thematically dealt with the criminal law and the criminal procedure law. In 1863 he joined the job as a junior barrister to the Supreme Court of Göttingen, after he had received his law doctorate from the first grade on 18 December 1858. He habilitated and followed in the spring of 1863 the call of the Friedrichs- University of Halle. In 1866 he was appointed by the University of Rostock on their Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.

Two years later (1868 ) he moved to the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau. For the academic year 1877/78 he was elected rector. In 1879 he returned to Göttingen as professor. When he was there 1895/96 Rector, he dealt in his rectorial address problems of criminal law. In Göttingen he worked for over 30 years.

From Bar distinguished himself as a political writer. This resulted in his nomination as delegates of the constituency Rostock for the Reichstag, in which he was elected in 1890, where he remained until 1893.

He died at 77 years in Folkestone. He is buried at the city cemetery (Göttingen).

Services

In his works he commented on many key issues in the field of criminal law, even if he has dealt with all matters literary virtually justice ( including the same bankruptcy or international law). Of particular importance was for him but also the history and philosophy of law, which he considered essential to meet the phenomena of legal life needs. Among his most important historical work includes The history of German criminal law and the criminal law theories (1882 ), which was planned as the first volume of a handbook of German criminal law. As a reformer, he was able to make a name in the field of private international law. So it was obvious that he was elected in 1875 internationally as a member of the Institut de Droit, which in 1891 held in Hamburg session he led as president. From Bar was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1900 in The Hague and promoted efforts that had set itself the goal of bringing people together.

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna (1889 )
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge (1895 )
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo (1911 )
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford ( 1913)
• Göttingen plaque on his last residence in Göttingen Herzberger Landstraße 25 (1954 )

Works

• Private international law and criminal law. Hannover 1862.
• The Beweisurtheil of Germanic Processes. A contribution to the history and criticism of the German Preocesses and of German law. Hannover 1866.
• History of German criminal law and criminal theories. Berlin 1882 ( see web link).
• Textbook of international private law and criminal law. Stuttgart 1892.
• Law and guilt in criminal law. Questions of the current German criminal law and its reform. Vol 1: The Penal Law. Berlin 1906.
• Law and guilt in criminal law, Volume 2: The guilt under criminal laws. I. Guttentag, Berlin, 1907.
• Law and guilt in criminal law. Vol 3: The liberation of guilt and punishment by the criminal law. I. Guttentag, Berlin, 1909.