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GEORG FRIEDRICH VON MARTENS (1756-1821)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 787 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORG

FRIEDRICH VON MARTENS (1756-1821)  , German jurist and diplomatist, was born at
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Hamburg on the 22nd of
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February 17 56 . Educated at the
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universities of
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Gottingen, Regensburg and Vienna, he became professor of jurisprudence at Gottingen in 1783 and was ennobled in 1789 . He was made a counsellor of state by the elector of Hanover in 18o8, and in 1810 was president of the
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financial section of the council of state of the
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kingdom of Westphalia . In 1814 he was appointed privy
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cabinet-councillor (Geheimer Kabinetsrat) by the king of Hanover, and in 1816 went as representative of the king to the
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diet of the new German Confederation at
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Frankfort, where he died on the 21st of February 1821 . Of his
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works the most important is the
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great collection of
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treaties Recueil
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des traites, &c.) from 1761 onwards . Of this the first seven volumes were published at Gottingen (1791-1801), followed by four supplementary volumes partly edited by his
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nephew Karl von Martens (see below) . These were followed by Nouveau recueil, of treaties subsequent to 18o8, in 16 vols . (Gottingen, 1817-1842), of which G . F. von Martens edited the first four, the fifth being the
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work of K. von Martens, the others (6-9) by F .
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Saalfeld and (t(3-16) F . Murhard . A Nouveau supplement, in 3 vols., filling gaps in the previous collection, was also published by Murhard (Gottingen, 1839-1842) .

This was followed by Nouveau recueil . . . continuation du

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grand recueil de Martens, in 20 vols . (Gottingen, 1843-1875), edited in turn by F . Murhard, C . Murhard, J . Pinhas, C . Samwer and J . Hopf, with a general
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index of treaties from 1494 to 1874 (1876) . This was followed by Nouveau recueil, 2me serie (Gottingen, 1876-1896; vols. xxii.-
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xxxv.,
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Leipzig, 1897-1908) . From vol. xi. on this series was edited by Felix Stork, professor of public law at Greifswald . In 1909 appeared vol. i. of a further Continuation (troisieme serie) under the editorship of Professor Heinrich Triepel of
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Kiel University . Of Martens' other works the most important are the Precis du droit des gens modernes de l'
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Europe (1789; 3rd ed., Gottingen, 1821; new ed., G .

S . Pinheiro-

Ferreira, 2 vols., 1858, 1864) ; Erzahlungen merkwurdiger Falk des neueren europaischen Volkerrechts, 2 vols . (Gottingen, 1800-1802); Cours diplomatique ou tableau des 'relations des puissances de l'Europe, 3 vols . (Berlin, 1801); Grundriss einer diplomatischen Gesch. der europ . Staatshandel u . Friedensschlusse seit dem Ende des 15 . Jahrhunderts (ibid . 1807) . His nephew KARL VON MARTENS (1790-1863), who at his
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death was minister
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resident of the grand-duke of
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Weimar at
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Dresden, published a Manuel diplomatique (Leipzig, 1823), re-issued as Guide diplomatique in two vols. in 1832 (5th ed. by Geffcken, 1866), a valuable textbook of the rules and customs of the
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diplomatic service; Causes celebres du droit des gees (2 vols., ibid., 1827) and Nouvelles causes celebres (2 vols., ibid., 1843), both republished, in 5 vols . (1858-1861) ; Recueil manuel et pratique de traites (' vols., ibid., 1846-1857) ; continued by Geffcken in 3 vols., 1885-1888) .

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