Gustav Radbruch

Person · Open Library

Born

1878

Died

1949

Works

57

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Austria

Active from

1860-07-07

Active to

1911-05-18

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Beiträge zur Optik trüber Medien, speziell kolloidaler Metallösungen

   · 1908 · cited 9,873x

2. New method for quantitative determination of uronic acids

   · 1973 · cited 6,117x

3. Definition and classification of cancer cachexia: an international consensus

   · 2011 · cited 5,004x

4. The G-Protein-Coupled Receptors in the Human Genome Form Five Main Families. Phylogenetic Analysis, Paralogon Groups, and Fingerprints

   · 2003 · cited 2,464x

5. Guidance on Conducting and REporting DElphi Studies (CREDES) in palliative care: Recommendations based on a methodological systematic review

   · 2017 · cited 1,854x

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Quotes

• “Because a judgement on the truth or error of the differing convictions in law is impossible, and because on the other hand a uniform law for all citizens is necessary, the law-giver faces the task of cleaving with a stroke of the sword the Gordian knot which jurisprudence cannot untangle. Since it is impossible to ascertain what is just, it must be decided what is lawful. In lieu of an act of truth (which is impossible) an act of authority is required. Relativism leads to positivism.”
• “Philosophy is not to relieve one of decisions, but to confront him with decisions. It is to make life not easy but, on the contrary, problematical.”
• “As it is the essence of justice ultimately to shape those relations in the sense of equality, so it is essential to the legal precept in its meaning to be directed toward equality, to claim to be susceptible of generalization or to be general in character.”
• “It is the professional duty of the judge to validate the law’s claim to validity, to sacrifice his own sense of the right to the authoritative command of the law, to ask only what is legal and ask not if it is also just.”
• “The concept of law can be defined only as the reality tending toward the idea of law.”
• “Concepts such as legal subject and legal object, legal relation and legal wrong, and indeed the very concept of law itself, are not accidental possessions of several or all legal orders but are necessary prerequisites if any legal order is to be understood as legal.”

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Key facts

Chancellor

Gustav Stresemann

Preceded by

Rudolf Heinze

Succeeded by

Erich Emminger

Constituency

National list

Born

( 1878-11-21 ) 21 November 1878, Free City of Lübeck , German Empire

Died

23 November 1949 (1949-11-23) (aged 71), Heidelberg , Württemberg-Baden , West Germany

Party

Social Democratic Party

Alma mater

Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin , Heidelberg University

Profession

Lawyer, legal philosopher

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Gustav

Gender

male

Citizenship

German Reich

Place of birth

Lübeck

Place of death

Heidelberg

Occupation

professor

Educated at

Katharineum

Employer

Heidelberg University

Political party

Social Democratic Party of Germany

Languages spoken

German

Doctoral advisor

Franz von Liszt

Field of work

politics

Conflict

World War I

Image

RadbruchGustav.jpg

Work location

Heidelberg

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