The Life And Letters Of Francis Lieber

by Francis Lieber, Thomas Sergeant Perry (Editor)

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448 pages, Hardcover

First published June 25, 2007

About the author

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.