Ottfried Nippold

Infobox Person
name = Ottfried Nippold

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birth_date = May 21, 1864
birth_place = Wiesbaden, Germany
death_date = July 27, 1938
death_place = Switzerland
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known_for = contributions to international law
occupation =　educator, lawyer
nationality = Germany Ottfried Nippold (May 21, 1864 - July 27, 1938) was a German-Swiss jurist.

Nippold was born in Wiesbaden, Germany as the son of Professor Friedrich Nippold of the University of Jena. He attended Gymnasium in Burgdorf and in Berne and studied law at the University of Berne, University of Halle, University of Tübingen and at the University of Jena. At the latter, he earned his doctorate in 1886, and was employed as a local court judge in Weimar.

In 1889, Nippon was invited by the Japanese government as a foreign advisor to teach at the Law School of the Society for German Sciences in Tokyo.

On his return to Europe on the conclusion of his three year contract, he worked as a lawyer in Thun and Berne and acquired Swiss citizenship in 1905. The same year, he passed his habilitation in international law at the University of Berne. After a brief stay in Frankfurt he returned to Switzerland after the outbreak of the First World War.

Following the war, he became President of the High Court of the Saarland in Saarlouis in 1921. In 1927, he had become a professor of the University of Berne, and returned to Switzerland to assume his seat in 1934. He died in 1938 in Switzerland

Works

*Wanderungen durch Japan. Briefe und Tagebuchblätter ("Hikes through Japan. Letters and diary pages"). Jena: Mauke 1893.
*Die Entwicklung Japans in den letzten fünfzig Jahren ("The development of Japan during the last fifty years"). Bern: Wys 1904.
*Ein Blick in das europafreie Japan ("A glimpse into the Europe-free Japan"). Frauenfeld: Huber 1905.
*Die zweite Haager Friedenskonferenz ("The Second Hague Peace Conference"). Leipzig, München: Duncker & Humblot 1908