Karl von Lilienthal

Karl von Lilienthal
1905
Born
Karl Ludwig Julius von Lilienthal

31 August 1853
Elberfeld (Wuppertal), Rhine Province, Prussia, German confederation
Died8 November 1927(1927-11-08) (aged 74)
Heidelberg, Baden, Germany
Alma materBerlin
Heidelberg
Occupation(s)Jurist
Professor of Criminal Law and Process
Part-time assistant judge
SpouseAnna Boehle (1857–1931)
ChildrenFranz von Lilienthal (1881–1932)
and 2 daughters
Parents

Karl von Lilienthal (31 August 1853 - 8 November 1927) was a German scholar of Jurisprudence who became a university professor of criminal law. After working briefly as an Assessor (legal assistant) at the Wuppertal District Court he taught successively at the universities of Halle, Zürich, Marburg and then, between 1896 and 1924, Heidelberg, where he also served several terms as Dean of the Law Faculty and, for some years between 1902 and 1919, engaged in a parallel part time career in town as an assistant district judge.[1][2]

Beyond the academic world, in 1902 von Lilienthal was one of eight eminent jurists who accepted invitations to join the government's new "Criminal Justice Committee" ("Strafrechtskomitee"), which went on to recommend a series of important reforms to the criminal law.[3] For the rest of his life he was an influential commentator on the selective implementation. over several decades of the commission recommendations. An eye catching intervention came, towards the end of his life, in 1925 when he submitted a criticism of the newly drafted penal code in which he called for the paragraphs purporting to restrict abortion rights to be removed and for the criminalisation of homosexual acts to be ended.[1][4][5]

  1. ^ a b Monika Frommel [in German] (1985). "Lilienthal, Karl von: Jurist, * 31.8.1853 Elberfeld, † 8.11.1927 Heidelberg". Neue Deutsche Biographie. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (HiKo), München. pp. 558–559. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  2. ^ Dagmar Drüll (1986). Lilienthal, Karl Ludwig Julius von. Sptringer Verlag. p. 165. ISBN 978-3-642-70761-2. Retrieved 8 November 2021. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Rudolf Wassermann (editor of the revised 1992 edition and author of the 40 page introduction from which this piece information is taken) [in German]; Gustav Radbruch (author of main section) (1992). Einleitung. C.F. Müller GmbH. pp. 6–46. ISBN 978-3-8114-5091-2. {{cite book}}: |author1= has generic name (help); |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Lilienthal, Karl Ludwig Julius von". Hessische Biografie. Hessisches Landesamt für geschichtliche Landeskunde (LAGIS), Marburg. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  5. ^ Henrik Eberle. "Karl von Lilienthal". Archiv der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Retrieved 7 November 2021.