Karl Engisch

Karl Engisch
Portrait 1968
Born15 March 1899
Gießen, Hesse, Germany
Died11 September 1990
Nieder-Wiesen (Alzey-Worms), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Alma materGießen
Munich
Heidelberg
Occupation(s)lawyer
jurist
legal philosopher
Political partyNSDAP
SpouseThekla Schudt (1900-1973)
ChildrenIrmgard
Renate
Parent(s)Friedrich Engisch (1871-1943)
Dora Urich (1876-1928)

Karl Engisch (15 March 1899 - 11 September 1990) was a German jurist and a Philosopher of Law.[1][2] He was described by Hans Joachim Hirsch as one of the "outstanding theorists of criminal justice of the [twentieth] century" ("herausragenden Strafrechtstheoretiker des vergangenen Jahrhunderts").[3]

  1. ^ Arthur Kaufmann [in German]. "Karl Engisch: 15.3.1899 - 11.9.1990" (PDF). Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Gestorben: Karl Engisch". Der Spiegel (online). 24 September 1990. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  3. ^ Hans Joachim Hirsch, In: Festschrift für Nikolaos K. Androulakis, p. 225, Athen 2003.