- Robert von Mohl
Robert von Mohl (
August 17 ,1799 inStuttgart -November 4 ,1875 inBerlin ) was a Germanjurist . Father of diplomatOttmar von Mohl . Brother ofHugo von Mohl andJulius von Mohl .From 1824 to 1845 he was professor of political sciences at the
University of Tübingen , losing his position because of some frank criticisms which brought him under the displeasure of the authorities ofWürttemberg .In 1847 he was a member of the parliament of Württemberg, and in the same year he was appointed professor of law at
Heidelberg ; in 1848 he was a member of the German Parliament which met atFrankfort and for a few months he was minister of justice. He was also a member parliament in the Reichstag. From 1827 to 1846, he was a professor of "Staatswissenschaften" (political science and political economics) of theUniversity of Tübingen . Robert von Mohl was one of the first to coin the term of a "Rechtsstaat ", or constitutional state, as opposed to the "aristocratic"police state .His later public life was passed in the service of the
Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Baden , whom he represented as ambassador inMunich from 1867 to 1871.Through
Kato Hiroyuki and other Japanese thinkers and statesmen, his works influenced the Japanese state philosophy after theMeiji Restoration .Works
* "Die Polizei-Wissenschaft nach den Grundsätzen des Rechtsstaates" ("Police science according to the principles of the constitutional state")
* "Encyklopädie der Staatswissenschaften" ("Encyclopedia of political sciences and political economics")
* "Staatsrecht, Völkerrecht und Politik" ("Constitutional law, international law and politics")External links
* [http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/ub/elib/tbi/1997-2/seite12.htm Excerpt from Mohl's "Lebenserinnerungen" ("autobiography")]
* [http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~pr140583/Literatur/Mohl.html Bibliography to Mohl's work]
* [http://mdz.bib-bvb.de/digbib/lexika/adb/images/adb022/@ebt-link?target=idmatch(entityref,adb0220747) Article "Mohl"] in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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