Otfried Nippold

Otfried Nippold ( born May 21, 1864 in Wiesbaden, † July 27, 1938 in Bern ) was a German -Swiss jurist and freedom fighter.

Life

Otfried Nippold was a son of the Jena professor Friedrich Nippold. He went to high school Burgdorf and Bern and studied at the Universities of Bern, Halle, Tübingen and Jena jurisprudence, to the latter, he earned his doctorate in 1886. He became judge in Saxony- Weimar. In 1889 he was invited for three years to a teaching position at the School of Law of the Association for German Studies in Tokyo.

He then settled down as a lawyer in Thun and Bern 1905 and acquired Swiss nationality. In the same year he completed his habilitation at the University of Bern in specialist international law. After an interlude in Frankfurt am Main, he returned at the outbreak of war in Switzerland. In 1921 he became president of the Supreme Court of the Saarland in Saarlouis. In 1934 he returned back again to Switzerland. In 1927 he became a professor at the University of Bern.

Works

  • Walking through Japan. Letters and diaries. Mauke, Jena 1893
  • The development of Japan in the last fifty years. Wys, Bern 1904
  • A look at the europa free Japan. Huber, Frauenfeld 1905
  • The second Hague Peace Conference. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig and Munich 1908
  • An international agreement its position in the legal system and its significance for international law, KJ Wyss, Bern 1894
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