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Kelsen, Hans, 1881-1973

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Personal name headingKelsen, Hans, 1881-1973
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Variant(s)Kelʹzen, Gans, 1881-1973
Kʻo-lu-sun, 1881-1973
קלזן, הנס, 1881-1973
Other standard no.0000000121266076
Birth date1881-10-11
Death date1973-04-20
Place of birthPrague (Czech Republic)
Place of deathBerkeley (Calif.)
Field of activityInternational law Constitutional law Legal positivism Law--Philosophy Jurisprudence
AffiliationUniversität Wien
Austria. Verfassungsgerichtshof
Universität zu Köln
Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)
University of California, Berkeley
Profession or occupationLaw teachers College teachers Philosophers Judges Authors
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Found inDie staatslehre des Dante Alighieri ... 1905.
Principles of international law, 1956: t.p. (Hans Kelsen)
Fa lü yü kuo chia, 1976: t.p. (Kʻo-lu-sun)
Das problem der Souveränität und die Theorie des Völkerrechts, 1928: t.p. (Hans Kelsen)
Britannica.com, academic edition, February 6, 2013 (Hans Kelsen; born October 11, 1881, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now in Czech Republic); died April 20, 1973, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.; Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law, who formulated a kind of positivism known as the "pure theory" of law; immigrated to the United States in 1940; wrote the Austrian constitution adopted in 1920 and served as a judge of the Austrian Supreme Constitutional Court, 1920-1930; professor of law at University of Vienna, 1919-1930; at University of Cologne, 1930-1933; at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, 1934-1940; a full professor at the University of California, Berkeley, 1945)
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