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Am Haus Wickenburggasse 23 befindet sich eine Gedenktafel für Hans Kelsen. Die Inschrift lautet:
Hans Kelsen
Schöpfer der österreichischen Bundesverfassung
und Begründer der reinen Rechtslehre wohnte in diesem Haus von 1912 bis 1930
Hans Kelsen:
Hans Kelsen (* 11. Oktober 1881 in Prag, Böhmen, Österreich-Ungarn; † 19. April 1973 in Orinda bei Berkeley, USA) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Rechtswissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er erbrachte insbesondere im Staatsrecht, im Völkerrecht sowie als Rechtstheoretiker herausragende Beiträge. Er zählte gemeinsam mit Georg Jellinek und dem Ungarn Félix Somló zur Gruppe der österreichischen Rechtspositivisten, deren Denken er mit seinem Hauptwerk, der Reinen Rechtslehre, maßgeblich beeinflusste. Kelsen gilt als Architekt der österreichischen Bundesverfassung von 1920, die großteils bis heute in Kraft steht, und wird neben H. L. A. Hart als der einflussreichste Vertreter des Rechtspositivismus im 20. Jahrhundert angesehen.
Quelle und weitere Informationen: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kelsen
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At the house Wickenburggasse 23 there is a memorial plaque for Hans Kelsen. The inscription reads:
Hans Kelsen
Creator of the Austrian Federal Constitution
and founder of 'Reine Rechtslehre' (Pure Theory of Law) lived in this house from 1912 to 1930
Hans Kelsen:
Hans Kelsen (October 11, 1881 – April 19, 1973) was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He is author of the 1920 Austrian Constitution, which to a very large degree is still valid today. Due to the rise of totalitarianism in Austria (and a 1929 constitutional change), Kelsen left for Germany in 1930 but was forced to leave this university post after Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 because of his Jewish ancestry. That year he left for Geneva and later moved to the United States in 1940. In 1934, Roscoe Pound lauded Kelsen as "undoubtedly the leading jurist of the time." While in Vienna, Kelsen was a young colleague of Sigmund Freud and wrote on the subject of social psychology and sociology.
By the 1940s, Kelsen's reputation was already well established in the United States for his defense of democracy and for his Pure Theory of Law. Kelsen's academic stature exceeded legal theory alone and extended to political philosophy and social theory as well. His influence encompassed the fields of philosophy, legal science, sociology, the theory of democracy, and international relations.
Late in his career while at the University of California, Berkeley, although officially retired in 1952, Kelsen rewrote his short book of 1934, Reine Rechtslehre (Pure Theory of Law), into a much enlarged "second edition" published in 1960 (it appeared in an English translation in 1967). Kelsen throughout his active career was also a significant contributor to the theory of judicial review, the hierarchical and dynamic theory of positive law, and the science of law. In political philosophy he was a defender of the state-law identity theory and an advocate of explicit contrast of the themes of centralization and decentralization in the theory of government. Kelsen was also an advocate of the position of separation of the concepts of state and society in their relation to the study of the science of law.
Source and further information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kelsen