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BLUNTSCHLI, JOHANN KASPAR (18o81881)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 93 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BLUNTSCHLI, JOHANN KASPAR (18o81881) , Swiss jurist and politician, was born at Zurich on the 7th of March 18o8, the son of a soap and candle manufacturer. From school he passed into the Politische Institut (a seminary of law and political science) in his native town, and proceeding thence to the universities of Berlin and Bonn, took the degree of
doctor
  juris in the latter in 1829. Returning to Zurich in 1830, he threw himself with ardour into the political strife which was at the time unsettling all the cantons of the Confederation, and in this year published Uber die Verfassung der Stadt Zurich (On the Constitution of the City of Zurich). This was followed by Das Volk and der Souverdn (1830), a
work
  in which, while pleading for constitutional government, he showed his bitter repugnance of the growing Swiss radicalism. Elected in 1837 a member of the Grosser Rath (
Great
  Council), he became the champion of the moderate conservative party. Fascinated by the metaphysical views of the philosopher Friedrich Rohmer (18141856), a man who attracted little other attention, he endeavoured in Psychologische Studien fiber Staat and Kirche (1844) to apply them to political science generally, and in particular as a panacea for the constitutional troubles of Switzerland.
Bluntschli
 , shortly before his death, remarked, " I have gained renown as a jurist, but my greatest desert is to have comprehended Rohmer." This philosophical essay, however, coupled with his uncompromising attitude towards both radicalism and ultramontanism, brought him many enemies, and rendered his continuance in the council, of which he had been elected president, impossible. He resigned his seat, and on the overthrow of the Sonderbund in 1847, perceiving that all hope of power for his party was lost, took leave of Switzerland with the pamphlet Stimme eines Schweizersiiber die Bundesreform (1847), and settled at Munich, where he became professor of constitutional law in 1848.
At Munich he devoted himself with energy to the
special
 
work
  of his chair, and, resisting the temptation to identify himself with politics, published Allgemeines Staatsrecht (18511852); Lehre vom modernen Staat (18751870 ; and, in conjunction with Karl Ludwig Theodor Brater (18191869), Deutsches Stoatsworterbuch (11 vols., 18J71870; abridged by Edgar Loening in 3 vols., 1869-1875). Meanwhile he had assiduously worked at his code for the canton of Zurich, Privatrechlliches Gesetzbcch fur den Kanton Zurich (4 vols., 18547856), a work which was much praised at the time, and which, particularly the section devoted to contracts, served as a model for codes both in Switzerland and other countries. In 1861
Bluntschli
  received a
call
  to Heidelberg as professor of constitutional law (Staatsrecht), where he again entered the political arena, endeavouring in his Geschichte des allgemeinen Staatsrechts and der Politik (1864) " to stimulate," as he said, " the political consciousness of the German people, to cleanse it of prejudices and to further it intellectually." In his new home, Baden, he devoted his energies and political influence, during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, towards keeping the country neutral. From this time Bluntschli became active in the field of international law, and his fame as a jurist belongs rather to this province than to that of constitutional law. His Das moderne Kriegsrecht (1866) ; Das moderne V olkerrecht (1868), and Das Beuterecht im Krieg (1878) are likely to remain invaluable text-books in this branch of the science of jurisprudence. He also wrote a pamphlet on the "
Alabama
 " case.
Bluntschli was one of the founders, at
Ghent
  in 1873, of the Institute of International Law, and was the representative of the German emperor at the conference on the international laws of war at Brussels. During the latter years of his life he took a lively
interest
  in the Protestantenverein, a society formed to combat reactionary and ultramontane views of theology. He died suddenly at Karlsruhe on the 21st of October 1881. His library was acquired by Johns Hopkins University at
Baltimore
 , U.S.A.
Among his works, other than those before mentioned, may be cited Deutsches Privatrecht (1853--18J4); Deutsche Staatslchre fur Gebildete (1874); and Deutsche Staatslehre and die heutige Staatenwelt (188o).
For notices of Bluntschli's life and works see his interesting autobiography, Denkwurdiges aus meinem Leben (1884) ; von Holtzendorff, Bluntschli and seine Verdienste um die Staatswissenschaften (1882); Brockhaus, Konversations-Lexicon (19o1); and a biography by Meyer von Kronau, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.


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