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GEORG See also:FRIEDRICH VON See also:MARTENS (1756-1821)
, See also:German jurist and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg on the 22nd of See also:February 17 56
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Educated at the See also:universities of See also:Gottingen, See also:Regensburg and See also:Vienna, he became See also:professor of See also:jurisprudence at Gottingen in 1783 and was ennobled in 1789
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He was made a counsellor of See also:state by the elector of See also:Hanover in 18o8, and in 1810 was See also:president of the See also:financial See also:section of the See also:council of state of the See also:kingdom of See also:Westphalia
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In 1814 he was appointed privy See also:cabinet-councillor (Geheimer Kabinetsrat) by the See also: This was followed by Nouveau recueil . . . continuation du See also: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 See also:general See also:index of treaties from 1494 to 1874 (1876) . This was followed by Nouveau recueil, 2me serie (Gottingen, 1876-1896; vols. xxii.-See also:xxxv., See also:Leipzig, 1897-1908) . From vol. xi. on this See also:series was edited by See also:Felix See also:Stork, professor of public See also:law at Greifswald . In 1909 appeared vol. i. of a further Continuation (troisieme serie) under the editorship of Professor Heinrich Triepel of See also:Kiel University . Of Martens' other works the most important are the Precis du See also:droit des gens modernes de l'See also:Europe (1789; 3rd ed., Gottingen, 1821; new ed., G . S . Pinheiro-See also:Ferreira, 2 vols., 1858, 1864) ; Erzahlungen merkwurdiger See also:Falk des neueren europaischen Volkerrechts, 2 vols . (Gottingen, 1800-1802); Cours diplomatique ou tableau des 'relations des puissances de l'Europe, 3 vols . (See also: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 See also:death was See also:minister See also:resident of the grand-See also:duke of See also:Weimar at See also:Dresden, published a See also:Manuel diplomatique (Leipzig, 1823), re-issued as See also:Guide diplomatique in two vols. in 1832 (5th ed. by See also:Geffcken, 1866), a valuable textbook of the rules and customs of the See also: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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