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FRANCIS LIEBER (1800–1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 590 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS LIEBER (1800–1872)  , German-
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American publicist, was born at Berlin on the 18th of March x800 . He served with his two brothers under Blucher in the
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campaign of 1815, fighting at Ligny,
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Waterloo and Namur, where he was twice dangerously wounded . Shortly afterwards he was arrested for his
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political sentiments, the chief evidence against him being several songs of liberty which he had written . After several months he was discharged without a trial, but was forbidden to pursue his studies at the Prussian
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universities . He accordingly went to
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Jena, where he took his degrees in 182o, continuing his studies at Halle and
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Dresden . He subsequently took
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part in the Greek War of Independence,
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publishing his experiences in his Journal in
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Greece (
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Leipzig, 1823, and under the title The German
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Anacharsis, Amsterdam, 1823) . For a
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year he was in Rome as tutor to the son of the historian Niebuhr, then Prussian ambassador . Returning to Berlin in 1823, he was imprisoned at Koepenik, but was released after some months through the influence of Niebuhr . In 1827 he went to the
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United States and as soon as possible was naturalized as a citizen . He settled at Boston, and for five years edited The
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Encyclopaedia Americana (13 vols.) . From 1835 to 1856 he was professor of
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history and political
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economy in South Carolina College at
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Columbia, S.C., and during this period wrote his three chief
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works,
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Manual of Political Ethics (1838), Legal and Political Hermeneutics (1839), and
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Civil Liberty and Self Government (1853) . In 1856 he resigned and next year was elected to a similar
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post in Columbia College, New York, and in 1865 became professor of constitutional history and public law in the same institution .

During the Civil War

Lieber rendered servicesof
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great value to the government . He was one of the first to point out the madness of
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secession, and was active in upholding the Union . He prepared, upon the requisition of the president, the important Code of War for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field, which was promulgated by the Government in General Orders No. too of the war department . This code suggested to Bluntschli his codification of the law of nations, as may be seen in the preface to his Droit International Codifie . During this period also Lieber wrote his Guerilla Parties with Reference to the
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Laws and Usages of War . At the time of his
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death he was the
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umpire of the commission for the adjudication of Mexican claims . He died on the and of
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October 1872 . His books were acquired by the University of California, and his papers were placed in the Johns Hopkins University . His
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Miscellaneous Writings were published by D . C . Gilman (
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Philadelphia, 1881) . See T .

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Perry,
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Life and Letters (1882), and biography by Harby (1899) .

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