Hans Kelsen und die Berufungen nach Graz, Czernowitz und Wien 1916–1919

Abstract

So it seems that the first steps of his career were very difficult for him and only the political circumstances-the collapse of the monarchy and the rising of the republic in 1918-enabled the further steps. This article, however, shows that Kelsen was in discussion for a professorship even earlier, in 1916 at the University of Graz and soon after that in Czernowitz, before he was appointed at the University of Vienna. It gives a panorama view of the situation of the public law in Austria at the beginning of the 20 th century.

Hans Kelsen in seiner Zeit [Hans Kelsen in His Time] Schriftenreihe des Hans Kelsen-Instituts, Band 40 Clemens Jabloner, Thomas Olechowski and Klaus Zeleny (eds) MANZ'sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung, 2019, 385 pp, €79.00, ISBN 9873214147617

“…19 Among this opposition two scholars of aristocratic origin stand out: Ernst Schwind (1865Schwind ( -1932 and Alexander Hold-Ferneck (1875-1955). 20 Two articles in the present book analyse the substance of the scholarly controversy between these two scholars and Kelsen. The polemic between Schwind and Kelsen is described by Thomas Olechowski as relating to the problem of the relationship between the philosophy of law and the history of law.…”