Joseph Louis Elzéar Ortolan

Joseph -Louis- Elzéar Ortolan ( born August 21, 1802 in Toulon, † March 27, 1873 in Paris) was a French lawyer and writer.

Ortolan studied law in Aix -en- Provence and Paris in 1829 and received his PhD. He became known through the writings Explication historique of institute de Justinian (1827 ) and Histoire de la législation romaine (1828 ). He initially worked as a librarian at the Cour de cassation and in 1830 Secretary General of the Parquet de Paris.

He taught constitutional law at the Sorbonne and received in 1836 a chair of comparative criminal law at the University of Paris. In addition to scholarly writings Ortolan also published a book of poems ( Enfantines moralites, 1845) and a paper on Dante (Les pénalités de l' Enfer de Dante, 1873). In Paris, the rue Ortolan was named after him, in the Toulon Avennue Joseph Ortolan.

Ortolan brother Jean- Félicité -Théodore Ortolan was an expert on the Law of the Sea, his son Eugène Ortolan was known as a composer.

Works

• Explication historique of institute de Justinian, 1827
• Histoire de la romaine législation, 1828
• Cours d' histoire du droit politique public constitutionnel of peuples et de l'Europe avec le tableau de leur organization actuelle, 1831
• Le Ministère public en France, traité et de son code organization, de sa compétence et de ses fonctions dans l' ordre politique, et judiciaire administratif, 2 volumes, 1831
• Histoire de la romaine depuis son origine jusqu'à législation la législation modern, suivie historique de l' explication of the Institute of Justinian, Paris 1835
• Cours de législation comparée Criminal Procedure, 1838
• Éléments du droit penal, 1856
• Enfantines moralites, poems, 1845
• Les pénalités de l' Enfer de Dante, suivies d'une étude sur Brunetto Latini, apprécié comme le maître de Dante, 1873

• Legal scholars (19th Century )
• Author
• Frenchman
• Born in 1802
• Died in 1873
• Man