Ivar Afzelius
Ivar Afzelius (1848, Uppsala – 1921) was a Swedish jurist and politician.
Having studied law at the universities of Uppsala, Leipzig and Göttingen, he was appointed to teach process law at Uppsala in 1879. 1891-1902 he was a justice in the Supreme Court of Sweden, 1898-1903 and 1905-15 a member of the Riksdag, whose first chamber, the Senate, he presided in 1913-15. Since 1905, he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and president of the Svea Court of Appeals in 1910-18.
Afzelius is remembered as a precursor of a pan-Scandinavic legislative endeavour, especially the laws of the sea. He has been characterised as the prototype of an idealistic jurist in the liberal state. Still, he sought to link Swedish legal traditions to modern (especially German) dogmatic thought, whose reception in Sweden was strongly furthered by his authority.
He was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905, and of the Swedish Academy in 1907, on seat 4.
[edit] References
- Modéer, Kjell Åke (2001). "Ivar Afzelius". In Michael Stolleis (ed.) (in German). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (2nd edition ed.). München: Beck. p. 20. ISBN 3406 45957 9.
| Preceded by Christian Lundeberg |
Speaker of the Riksdag 1912–1915 |
Succeeded by Hugo Hamilton |
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