Francis Lieber

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Francis Lieber


Born
in Berlin, Prussia
March 18, 1798

Died
October 02, 1872


Francis Lieber (1798 or 1800 – 1872), known as Franz Lieber in Germany, was a German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher. He edited an Encyclopaedia Americana. He was the author of the Lieber Code during the American Civil War, also known as Code for the Government of Armies in the Field (1863). The Lieber Code is considered the first document to comprehensively outline rules regulating the conduct of war, and laid the foundation for the Geneva Conventions.

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Legal and Political Hermene...

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The Character of the Gentleman

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On Civil Liberty and Self-g...

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What is our Constitution, L...

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“The Greeks did not understand each other any longer, though they spoke Greek.”
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